Reducing Society’s Environmental Footprint (ETH Zurich Summer School)

Cancelled

This summer school will not be provided in an online format and therefore got postponed to 2021. Please also have a look at the other summer schools which might interest you.

This summer school will not be provided in an online format and therefore got postponed to 2021. Please also have a look at the other summer schools which might interest you.

While local environmental quality (e.g. ambient air pollution, water pollution) has improved dramatically in most advanced industrialized countries since the 1970s the total environmental impact of their economic activity globally shows few signs of improvement. This means that the population of wealthy countries is benefiting from a high quality of life, one part of which is high environmental quality, partly at the expense of other parts of the world population and its ecosystems. Mitigating this mismatch poses complex policy challenges. Policy choices in this area must be informed by scientific knowledge on several issues: - In which areas and economic sectors of a country do particular types of environmental impacts originate and where and how do they get allocated domestically and beyond a given country's borders to specific locations around the world? - How much are consumers and citizens in wealthy countries aware of and how much do they care about distributions of total environmental impacts of consumption within and beyond the borders of their country? - How could potential policy-interventions be designed (e.g. in terms of combinations of voluntary private sector and government regulation) so as to be both politically feasible and environmentally effective? In addressing these issues, the summer school will focus on measuring and assessing society’s environmental footprint, the psychology, economics, and politics of changing environmental footprints, and on firms, industries, and supply chains. Website: https://istp.ethz.ch/education/schools/2020.html

While local environmental quality (e.g. ambient air pollution, water pollution) has improved dramatically in most advanced industrialized countries since the 1970s the total environmental impact of their economic activity globally shows few signs of improvement. This means that the population of wealthy countries is benefiting from a high quality of life, one part of which is high environmental quality, partly at the expense of other parts of the world population and its ecosystems. Mitigating this mismatch poses complex policy challenges. Policy choices in this area must be informed by scientific knowledge on several issues:


- In which areas and economic sectors of a country do particular types of environmental impacts originate and where and how do they get allocated domestically and beyond a given country's borders to specific locations around the world?
- How much are consumers and citizens in wealthy countries aware of and how much do they care about distributions of total environmental impacts of consumption within and beyond the borders of their country?
- How could potential policy-interventions be designed (e.g. in terms of combinations of voluntary private sector and government regulation) so as to be both politically feasible and environmentally effective?

In addressing these issues, the summer school will focus on measuring and assessing society’s environmental footprint, the psychology, economics, and politics of changing environmental footprints, and on firms, industries, and supply chains.

Website: https://istp.ethz.ch/education/schools/2020.html

- Day 1: Measuring and assessing society’s environmental footprint - Day 2: The psychology, economics, and politics of changing environmental footprints - Day 3: Firms, industries, and supply chains - Day 4: Student project work - Day 5: Presentation of student projects

- Day 1: Measuring and assessing society’s environmental footprint
- Day 2: The psychology, economics, and politics of changing environmental footprints
- Day 3: Firms, industries, and supply chains
- Day 4: Student project work
- Day 5: Presentation of student projects

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There are no registration, tuition, and accommodation fees.

There are no registration, tuition, and accommodation fees.

Application is open to Master / PhD Students of the member universities of the IDEA League Alliance (http://idealeague.org): - Chalmers University of Technology - ETH Zürich - Politecnico di Milano - RWTH Aachen - TU Delft This summer school is also open to students from the ASPIRE League (http://www.aspireleague.org) alliance.

Application is open to Master / PhD Students of the member universities of the IDEA League Alliance (http://idealeague.org):

- Chalmers University of Technology
- ETH Zürich
- Politecnico di Milano
- RWTH Aachen
- TU Delft

This summer school is also open to students from the ASPIRE League (http://www.aspireleague.org) alliance.

In order to apply you need to **login to SiROP with your university account**. When your email belongs to a partner university the affiliation is created automatically. After successful affiliation you can return to this event and you will find a **button "Apply" right at the top**. If you need to affiliate manually please see: http://bit.ly/sirop-affiliate

In order to apply you need to **login to SiROP with your university account**. When your email belongs to a partner university the affiliation is created automatically.

After successful affiliation you can return to this event and you will find a **button "Apply" right at the top**.

If you need to affiliate manually please see: http://bit.ly/sirop-affiliate

The following documents will be requested from you as attachments you will have to upload with your application: - Curriculum vitae & publications list - Letter of motivation - Letter of recommendation (optional) - Supervisor approval (for Students from TU Delft and PhD students from Chalmers)

The following documents will be requested from you as attachments you will have to upload with your application:

- Curriculum vitae & publications list
- Letter of motivation
- Letter of recommendation (optional)
- Supervisor approval (for Students from TU Delft and PhD students from Chalmers)

For more information please read the FAQ: http://idealeague.org/students/summerschools/ If you have any further questions regarding the application process, please contact the organizer office@idealeague.org.

For more information please read the FAQ:

http://idealeague.org/students/summerschools/

If you have any further questions regarding the application process, please contact the organizer office@idealeague.org.