Topic outline

  • Week 5: Environmental management and sustainability

    This thematic week introduces you to environmental management and sustainability, including key aspects related to sustainability awareness, values and worldviews, and viewpoints to life cycle analysis LCA. The emphasis is on individual and joint reflection around these topics.

    The week consists of the following submitted tasks:

      • Thematic task: Board game -related A) pre-assignment, DL: Thu 6.10 at 12.00 AND B) follow-up assignment, DL: Fri 7.10. at 18.00).
      • Weekly exercise: Environmentally extended input-output (EE IO) analysis (DL Wed 5.10. 9:00)

    General schedule for the week is shown in the figure below, while the detailed schedule can be found below the figure.


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      Detailed time schedule

      Monday 3.10. 

      09:00 - 9.30 Introduction to the week @Water Building 286 (Meeri) 

      Suggested schedule for the rest of the day:
      9:30 - 13:00 Independently/with your pair: Watch the recorded lecture on LCA and discuss the questions posed in lecture slides 10 and 18 to check, if you understand what Juudit presented. Watch then instructions to the weekly assignment. The recoded lecture is in Lecture material folder and the Exercise instructions -video can be found in  the assignment's submission box.
      13:00 - 16:00 Pair work: working with the weekly exercise

      Tuesday 4.10. independent work

      09:00 - 16:00 Pair work (LCA exercise, assistance available @Water building and in Teams  / Kielo)

      Wednesday 5.10.

      9:00 - 12:00 Lecture & Introduction to the Thematic Task pre-assignments
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
      13:00 - 16:00 Individual work with the Thematic task pre-assignments (DL Thu 6.10. at 12.00)

      Thursday 6.10.

      9:00 - 12:00 Individual work with the Thematic task pre-assignments (DL Thu 6.10. al 12.00)
      12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
      13:00 - 16:30 Board game seminar & Instructions for the Follow-up assignment @Water Building

      Friday 7.10. 

      Individual work with the Thematic task: follow-up assignment (DL Fri 7.10. at 18.00)

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      Lecture material


      Link to the LCA lecture video. The lecture was given by Juudit Ottelin in October 2021.

      Lecture slides from Wednesday morning 9-11.

    • Exercise material

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      Assignment icon
      Weekly exercise: Environmentally extended input-output (EE IO) analysis Assignment

    • Reading material

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