WAT-E2090 - Water and People in a Changing World L, 16.04.2019-23.05.2019

Topic outline

• Supporting materials (lectures)
  Lecture 6 (socio-economic indicators):
  

  • Database of world development indicators: http://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi
  • Social progress indicator:  http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi
  • Happy planet index:  http://www.happyplanetindex.org
  • Corruption perceptions index:  http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview
  • Article on river basin vulnerability in Asian large rivers by Varis and Kummu: pdf
  • Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata20184
    
  • Human footprint over the past decades: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12558
    
  • Finland among the best in the world: Statistics Finland

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  TBA
  

  
  

  Lecture 5 (water scarcity):
  

  • Article on global water scarcity: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/313/5790/1068
  • Review article on water scarcity indicators: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016EF000518/full
  • Article on road to water scarcity: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38495
  • Article on green-blue water scarcity: http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/18/447/2014/
  • Article on past green-blue water scarcity: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/015001
  • [in Finnish] Discussion on water scarcity at YLE: [link]
  • Recommended novel by Finnish author Emmi Itäranta - Memory of water (Teemestarin kirja): [link]
  • check out our interactive water scarcity atlas: https://waterscarcityatlas.org

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  TBA
  

  
  

  Lecture 4 (water use):
  

  • Article on evolution of global virtual water trade: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203176109
  • Article on water footprint of humanity: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109936109
  • Lots of information and data on water footprint: http://waterfootprint.org/
    
  • Footprint article in Science: [link]
    

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  

  • Richter (2014): https://islandpress.org/books/chasing-water
    
  • Kummu et al (2016): https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38495
  • Pastor et al (2014): https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-5041-2014
  • Wada et al (2014): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104003
  • Dalin et al (2012): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203176109
  • Hoekstra & Wiedmann (2014): http://www.ayhoekstra.nl/pubs/Hoekstra-Wiedmann-2014-EnvironmentalFootprint.pdf
  • Suomen vesijalanjälki (WWF suomi 2012): http://wwf.fi/mediabank/2306.pdf
  • Jägermeyr et al (2015): https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3073-2015
    

  
  

  Lecture 3 (food production):
  

  • Gapminder (online tool Hans Rosling was using in his video): http://www.gapminder.org/tools/bubbles#_
  • Fascinating dataset of obesity and malnutrition: http://www.ncdrisc.org/v-adiposity.html
  • Article on global food availability and dependency on trade: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082714
  • Article on global food losses and waste: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.092
  • Article on potential of diet change to reduce water use: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074016
  • Article on combined potential of future opportunities: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.01.006

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  

  • Tom Standage 'An edible history of humanity'
  • Foley et al (2011): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10452
  • Erb et al (2009): TBA
  • Gerten et al (2013): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.001
  • ILO (2013): labour database
  • WRI (2013): https://www.climatewatchdata.org
  • World Bank (2013): https://data.worldbank.org
  • KILM (ILO): Key indicators in labours market
  • Porkka et al (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082714
  • FAO (2012): http://www.fao.org/3/al936e/al936e00.pdf
  • Porkka et al (2016): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/015001
  • Carr et al (2013): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055825
  • Heino et al (2015): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138918
  • Jalava et al (2014): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074016
  • Kummu et al (2016): https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38495
  • Kummu et al (2017): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.01.006
  • WRI (2016): The global food challenge explained in 18 graphics

  
  

  Lecture 2 (population):
  

  • History of wastewater treatment (in Finnish only, access to HS should be available at Aalto network)
    
  • Ted talk about the population dynamics (15 min): Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? We're winning the war against child mortality
    
  • Video (one hour) about facts of population: 
    
  • UN World population prospects (data and maps about population in the past and future)
    
  • Article on World by latitudes by Kummu and Varis (2011). Examples of graphs and maps, potentially interesting insights on how population is distributed on globe. 
    
  • Article on World by altitude and distance to sea by Kummu et al (2016). 
    
  • Article on How close do we live to water by Kummu et al (2011).

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  

  • Klein Goldeweijk (2010): https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609356587
  • Steffen et al (2015 - the great acceleration): https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019614564785
  • Steffen et al (2015 - planetary boundaries): https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/1259855
  • Rockström et al (2009): https://www.nature.com/articles/461472a
  • HYDE 3.2: https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/download/index-2.html

  
  

  Lecture 1 (water resources):
  

  • Oki et al. 2006. Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources. Science 313: 1068-1072. DOI: 10.1126/science.1128845 (you need to be in Aalto network to open the pdf)
  • Fresh water stories at National Geographic
    
  • Short video of global water crisis (3.5 min): 
    

  References in the lecture (in order of appearance):
  

  • HYDE 3.2: https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/download/index-2.html
  • WEF (2019): https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2019
  • Kummu et al (2011): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020578
  • Kummu & Varis (2011): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.10.009
  • Kummu et al (2010): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034006
  • Haddeland et al (2014): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1222475110
  • Porkka et al (2013): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0082714
  • Jalava et al (2014): https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074016
  • Kummu et al (2012): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.092
  • Varis (2014): http://doi.org/10.1038/514027a