SDG301 Climate Calculators for Plant- and Livestock Production
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Bente Aspeholen Åby
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Norsk
Limits of class size:20
Course frequency: Annually, spring semester from 2025. The course requires at least 5 participants.
Nominal workload:125 hours
Teaching and exam period:Spring semester (from 2025)
About this course
The course will provide the theoretical basis and principles for estimation of net greenhouse gas emissions from plant- and livestock production based on whole farm models/Climate calculators. The climate calculators will be demonstrated both in theory and through case-studies. The students will learn to use, analyze and interpret the results from the calculators and suggest mitigation options for individual farms.
Learning outcome
Knowledge
The students are to get
- thorough knowledge about the principles of whole farm models to estimate greenhouse gas emissions/Climate calculators and potentials and limitations of these
- broad knowledge about the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at farm level
Skills
The students are to
- explain the principles of whole farm models/Climate calculators
- estimate greenhouse gas emissions on farm level, analyze and interpret results
- suggest mitigation options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at farm level
- Lectures, case studies, farm visit, group work and discussions
- Supervision of group work
- SDG200, SDG201
- PJH212, HFX253, HFX255, HFX256, SDG300
- Term paper
Term paper Grading: Letter grades - Farm visit, oral presentations of group work
- 20 hours lectures, 8 hours farm visit, 50 hours case work, 10 hours group supervision, 37 hours paper writing
- BIOVIT