inf660 - Sustainability Informatics (Complete module description)

inf660 - Sustainability Informatics (Complete module description)

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Module label Sustainability Informatics
Module code inf660
Credit points 6.0 KP
Workload 180 h
Institute directory Department of Computing Science
Applicability of the module
  • Master's Programme Business Informatics (Master) > Akzentsetzungsmodule Bereich Wirtschaftsinformatik
  • Master's Programme Business Informatics (Master) > Akzentsetzungsmodule der Informatik
  • Master's Programme Computing Science (Master) > Angewandte Informatik
Responsible persons
  • Marx Gómez, Jorge (module responsibility)
  • Solsbach, Andreas (module responsibility)
  • Bremer-Rapp, Barbara (module responsibility)
  • Lehrenden, Die im Modul (authorised to take exams)
Prerequisites

No participant requirement

Skills to be acquired in this module

After finishing this course, students should be able to set up a sustainabiliy report tailormade for different target groups for any kind of organization. The students will be enabled to know and apply different available standards and guidelines as well as to esti-mate the influence of data defects and the feasibility of recent information and communication technology. This course emphazizes the importance of sustainability reporting as a means of an organization's communca-tion (internal and external) and provides an overview on relevant indicators, standards and guidelines. Based on that the handling of data defects and missing data as well as different approaches of reporting will be dis-cussed. In addition, the specific requirements of different target groups regarding content and presentation of a report will be discussed as well.
Professional competence
The students:

  • are aware of different indicators, standards and guidelines and know when to apply which.
  • know different approaches of data capturing, interpolation of missing or corrupt data as well as the influence of each of these issues on the validity of a report.
  • implement concepts for tailormade target group orientation.

Methodological competence
The students:

  • prepare a small sustainability report based on their decision which standard or guideline to use.
  • capture existing data and analyse it.
  • prepare a tailormade target oriented presentation of their results.

Social competence
The students:

  • are supposed to work in teams and therefore have to identify working packages and have to take on responsibility for the jobs assigned to them.
  • present and discuss their own results with the team and the other members of the course

Self-competence
The students:

  • learn about their own limitations and learn to accept criticism in order to strengthen their own abilities
Module contents

The following topics will be covered in this module: 

  • different definitions of the term sustainability.
  • the importance of sustainability reporting as a means of an organisation's communication.
  • LCA, environmental accounting, supply chain management as data sources.
  • semantic, comparability and transformation of indicators, standards and guidelines.
  • interpolation and interpretation of data defects.
  • how to report (e.g. knowledge management, document engineering, integrated reporting, different target groups).
Recommended reading
  • Marx Gómez, J., Teuteberg, F. (Hrsg.) (2010): Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems – State of the Art and Future Trends. Idea Group Publishing Hershey (PA), London
  • Heck, P., Bemmann, U. (Hrsg.) (2002): Praxishandbuch Stoffstrommanagement. Deutscher Wirtschaftsdienst.
  • Rüdiger, C. (2000): Betriebliches Stoffstrommanagement. Deutscher Universitätsverlag.
  • Möller, A. (2000): Grundlagen stoffstrombasierter Betrieblicher Umweltinformationssysteme. Projekt Verlag.
  • Rautenstrauch, C. (1999), Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
    Brugger, F. (2010). Nachhaltigkeit in der Unternehmenskommunikation: Bedeutung, Charakteristika und Herausforderungen. Springer-Verlag.
  • Kern, E., (2015). Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten für Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeitsinformatik. In: Cunningham, D. W., Hofstedt, P., Meer, K. & Schmitt, I. (Hrsg.), INFORMATIK 2015. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., (S. 345-354).
  • Mast, C. (2018). Unternehmenskommunikation. 7. Auflage.
  • Naumann S. (2007). Nachhaltigkeitsinformatik: Ein neues Teilgebiet der angewandten Informatik? In: Rundbrief des Fachausschuss 4.6 Informatik und Umweltschuss der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (Hrsg.): Informatik im Umweltschutz, Nr. 41, Juli 2007.
  • Rubik F., Müller R., Harnisch, R., Holzhauer B., Schipperges M., Geiger S. (2019). Umweltbewusstsein in Deutschland 2018, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMU).
  • Stolze, C., Rah, N., Thomas, O. (2011). Entwicklung eines integrativen Reifegradmodells für nachhaltige IT. In GI-Jahrestagung 2011.
  • Hildebrandt, A., Kästle, S. (2017). Richtiges Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in Zeiten des digitalen Wandels. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53202-7_20
Links

http://vlba.wi-ol.de

Languages of instruction German, English
Duration (semesters) 1 Semester
Module frequency Winter term
Module capacity unlimited
Teaching/Learning method V+Ü oder P
Type of course Comment SWS Frequency Workload of compulsory attendance
Lecture 2 SuSe 28
Exercise or practical training 2 SuSe 28
Total module attendance time 56 h
Examination Prüfungszeiten Type of examination
Final exam of module

At the end of the lecture period

Portfolio or project.