Emergy Accounting of the Distance Teaching Version of a Technical Course on Management by IFSULDEMINAS: A Case Study
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This paper presents the use of Emergy Synthesis to assess the environmental investment in the distance teaching version of a two-year secondary level course on Management at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the South of Minas Gerais stateIFSULDEMINAScampus in Inconfidentes, MG, Brazil. The study includes the environmental accounting of the construction and usage phases of the Distance Teaching Center (DTC) facilities and equipment, the students' equipment as means to accessing information, and the flows of energy and information within the system. Additionally, a preview of the CO2 emissions resulting from the operation of the DTC and the students’ home computers is included. Computers, books, and concrete make the largest contributions to the emergy of the system, at 9.61 x 10 sej/2 years, 7.64 x 10 sej/2 years, and 5.24 x 10 sej/2 years, respectively.
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