GRN 6930 - Sustainability Research, Accounting and Reporting

(4 units)

This course reviews the foundations and principles of sustainability research, true cost accounting, and evaluation of the sustainability of products and services and reporting sustainability issues to a range of stakeholders in an international environment. This requires careful and thoughtful use of a wide range of research tools and methods including model building, resource-constrained optimization (linear, integer, and other programming models) and modeling for decision theoretic situations. In addition, sustainability metrics, customer and market analysis, measurements of company performance, auditing, and developing product, service and company specific metrics and reports as well as effective use of data mining are covered.
(San Diego)