Title

“Environmental Accounting and Ecosystem Services Assessment” Venue: NCU, Torun, Poland Period: 12-15 November, 2018 (8 hours, 2 hours per day) Instructors: Prof. Pier Paolo Franzese Laboratory of Ecodynamics and Sustainable Development Department of Science and Technology Parthenope University of Naples, Italy E-mail: pierpaolo.franzese@uniparthenope.it Web: https://ecodynamics-uniparthenope.weebly.com Dr. Elvira Buonocore Laboratory of Ecodynamics and Sustainable Development Department of Science and Technology Parthenope University of Naples, Italy E-mail: elvira.buonocore@uniparthenope.it Web: https://ecodynamics-uniparthenope.weebly.com

************* Short Syllabus Day 1: The notion of natural capital and ecosystem services Fundamentals of environmental accounting Sustainable development: a biophysical perspective Day 2: Energy analysis: the Gross Energy Requirement (GER) method Theory and case study Day 3: The Emergy accounting method Theory and case study Day 4: Fundamentals of Life cycle Assessment (LCA) A multi-scale and multi-criteria approach to environmental accounting

PierPaoloFranzeseisaProfessorofEcologyattheDepartmentofScienceandTechnologyofParthenopeUniversityofNaples,Italy.

HegraduatedwithhonoursinEnvironmentalSciences(marine-oceanographiccurriculum)in 2002. In 2006, he achievedthe international title of Ph.D.in “Crop Systems, Forestry,andEnvironmentalScience”withlabelofDoctorEuropaeus.

Over the last fifteen years his research and teaching activities have been focused onenvironmental accounting and environmental assessment, and their application to thedevelopmentofanecosystemapproachforstudyinghuman-environmentinteractions.

Always striving for the application of a system-based and interdisciplinary approach toscience,hismainresearchinterestisfocusedontheanalysisofmaterialandenergyflowssupportingecosystems,industry,andsociety,withthegoalofinvestigatingandimprovingtheirenvironmentalperformanceandsustainability.

Prof. Franzese is founderMember and Secretary of the International Ph.D. Programme“Environment,ResourcesandSustainableDevelopment”hostedatParthenopeUniversityof Naples where he also founded and directs the Laboratory of Ecodynamics andSustainableDevelopment.

HeisSubjectEditoroftheElsevierjournalEcologicalModelling.Inaddition,heisSubjectEditor of the scientific journal Ecological Questions (NCU) andMember of the EditorialBoards of the following international journals: Energy, Ecology and Environment(Springer),andJournalofEnvironmentalAccountingandManagement(L&H).

HeisPresident-electoftheInternationalSocietyfortheAdvancementofEmergyResearch(ISAER) and Coordinator of the NationalWorking Group on “natural capital, ecosystemservices,andenvironmentalaccounting”oftheItalianSocietyofMarineBiology.

Prof.PierPaoloFranzeseShortBio

Elvira Buonocore is a Post-Doc researcher at the Department of Science and Technology ofParthenopeUniversityofNaples,Italy.

Shegraduatedcumlaudein“EnvironmentalSciences”in2009.In2013,sheachievedthetitleofPh.D.in“Environment,ResourcesandSustainableDevelopment”.

Her research is focused on environmental accounting and assessment applied to natural andhuman-drivensystems.Inparticular,hermainresearchinterestsandfieldsofexpertisearenaturalcapital and ecosystem services assessment in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, natureconservation, renewable energy sources and bioenergy, emergy accounting and life cycleassessment.

Dr.ElviraBuonocoreShortBio