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

Topic outline

• Theme 3: Food production
  Theme lecture

  The theme lecture is available at the following web-page:

  Prezi presentation of the food production

  Hands-on exercise

  You can get the Theme 3 exercise from git by following instructions below: 

  1. Start RStudio
  2. If it did not start where you left (or you have done something else in the meanwhile), navigate to the exercise directory
  3. Tools -> Shell
  4. this command will make a "checkpoint" where you can come back: git commit -am "my changes after exercise 2"
     
  5. give command to retrieve new exercise and other changes: git pull

  
  

  Home assignment

  1. Discover global / regional / river basin food production and land use 

  Instructions:

  1. please develop your own research question
  2. produce one page (A4/A3) with following structure: a) title; b) research question and short introduction; c) TABLES and maps, graphs, etc of the results with captions d) interpretation of the results
  3. you can get help to possible problems by a) searching from internet: there are many people with similar problems; b) posting question to the discussion forum of the course (tool below the text; teachers and other students will be answering to those questions); c) coming to Thursday workshop, or d) asking your fellow students directly
  4. once you are happy with the end result, please submit the work (see below Submission)

  
  This weeks illustration type: tables and histograms; include either one to the home assignment! See example charts under 'Visualisation guides and examples' -tab 
  

  Example research questions: 

  • How the cropland and pasture areas have developed in relation to population?
  • Has the planetary boundary of landuse crossed in your study area, if so, when?
  • Is the food production adequate in your study area? If not, what kind of measure have been udnertaking to reach it. 

  
  Submission: please submit the assignment by using the submission icon below. 

  
  2. Mid-course feedback

  We would highly appreciate your feedback on how things are going with the course and how we could improve it. Please use few minutes and fill the questionary at the end of the section. We would appreciate if you could fill it in by Fri 3rd of April. 

  
  

  Thursday workshop

  On Thursdays we have a workshop at main building U265 in where you can get help on the home assignment and project work. At 9:30 (sharp - please come in time to have time to start computer etc), we'll give a short lecture on how to make nice tables to your report. 

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    Home assignment #3

    Please submit the first assignment here; instructions are given in the main page. 

    Please remember: submission is due on 6.5. at 23:55. Should you submit the assingment late, you'll get only half of the points. The submission will be closed completely on 13.5, after which you are not able to submit the assignment. 

    Before submission, please check:

    • your home assignment fits to one page

    • the format of the submission is pdf

    • assignment includes either a table or a histogram