At the end of the course, students will have developed the following knowledge, skills and competences: know the principles and systemic approaches for modelling of environmental systems; understand the fundamentals of systems thinking and system dynamics modelling; know how to define a problem in dynamic terms; capacity to develop dynamic hypotheses and build conceptual models for environmental problems; capacity to use system dynamics software and computer-based tools for the analysis of environmental systems; know seminal models for the analysis of typical behavior patterns in environmental systems; be able to formulate model-based environmental policies and evaluation simulation scenarios; understand the efficacy of different strategies for intervening in environmental systems; capacity to analyze data and define modelling strategies for the analysis of environmental problems in a context of complexity and uncertainty; capacity to communicate model-based insights.