WAT-E1100 - Water and Environmental Engineering, Lecture, 4.9.2023-20.10.2023
This course space end date is set to 20.10.2023 Search Courses: WAT-E1100
Översikt
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The last week of WAT Course takes a broader view on the course's' content, synthesising the six thematic weeks and reflecting what you have learned. The week also includes a structured way to give and receive feedback with your group.
Please reserve the week from Monday morning until Wednesday lunch time for Contact Sessions and other activities.
The rest of the week is reserved for possible mentor meeting, for finalising your assignments (if remaining) as well as starting to prepare your Personal Learning Portfolio (see here): the portfolio also helps you to plan your advanced studies (see here). Please also use the days to rest after the intensive WAT-course.
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Schedule for the week
Monday 16.10 morning: WAT CONTEXT
9.00- Introduction session for Synthesis Week (slides here)
Context sessions on Governance and Science (slides here)
Monday 16.10 afternoon: individual work on personal learning points
Tuesday 17.10: SYNTHESIS DAY (slides here)
9:00- Group work on your Synthesis Task (& lunch)
13:30- Group presentations for WAT weeks
Around 3pm- Synthesising discussion in small groups + guidance for Wednesday
Wednesday 19.10: FEEDBACK & WAY FORWARD DAY (slides here)
9:00 - 10:00 Introduction + finalising your personal feedback
10:00 - 11:30 Group feedback with modified version Satu Rekonen's 'I like, I wish' method
11:45 - 12:30 Wrap-up & way forward
12.30 - Joint lunch at Fat Lizard restaurant
Wed afternoon + Thursday & Friday
Time to finalise your possible remaining assignments plus a possibility for mentor meetings as well as time to prepare your Personal Study Plan and start to work on your Personal Learning Portfolio. Also some time to relax and recover before Period II!
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Synthesis task: Personal Learning Points Inlämningsuppgift
Go through WAT Course weekly themes, methods and contexts.
Write down your Personal Learning Points for each week and your reflection on the connection between different WAT study paths to the template provided here.
Deadlines
1) First version by Tuesday at 9 am, but no need to submit to MyCourses (forms basis for your group work)
2) Final version: submission here by Fri 20th October.The task will not be graded, but is intended to be useful for yourself to reflect your learning as well as to think about your advanced studies and to prepare your Personal Learning Portfolio.
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Use the attached powerpoint template as a basis for your group's synthesis presentation. You can present also in other way (e.g. through Prezi, Miro etc.), but make sure you include the same themes into your presentation.
Submit the presentation by Tuesday at 1.30pm to the Week 7 sub-channel in the course's Teams channel.
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This powerpoint provides you a template where you can write your personal feedback to both your group as a whole and your group members individually. You will fill this on Wednesday morning and then use it as a basis to give feedback to your group members.
The template is based on Satu Rekonen's "I like, I wish" team feedback methods: https://ilikeiwish.org
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Personal compensatory task if you missed MONDAY Forum
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Personal compensatory task if you missed TUESDAY Forum
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Personal compensatory task if you missed WEDNESDAY Forum
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Literature: governance & science
The Synthesis Week also includes a short context sessions related to
i) governance and legislation and
ii) science + multi- and Interdisciplinarity.
Both are naturally really broad topics, and have a very important role in water and environmental engineering field: understanding them is therefore critical both for your studies and your career.
Given the sessions provide just a short introduction to those themes, we encourage you to read the hand-picked selection of the key literature on these themes to learn more!
Do also note that you can study these topics more in our advanced courses, such as WAT-E2080 Water & Governance course. We also encourage you to take law-, governance and science-related courses at e.g. Aalto University, University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland as part of your elective studies.
Selected literature: governance & legislation
- Biermann et al. (2010): Earth system governance: a research framework
- Biermann (2012): Planetary boundaries and earth system governance: Exploring the links
- Cosens et al (2021): Governing complexity: Integrating science, governance, and law
- Franks & Cleaver (2007): Water governance and poverty: a framework for analysis
- Partelow et al. (2020): Environmental governance theories - a review and application
- Reed (2008): Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review
- Reed et al. (2009): Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management
- Soininen et al. (2021): A brake or an accelerator? The role of law in sustainability transitions
- Young (2013): Sugaring off: enduring insights from long-term research on environmental governance
- Keskinen (2010): Bringing back the common sense?
- Sojamo (2016): Water-using corporations as agents of water security, management and governance.
- Haapala (2018): Governing water for local development
Selected literature: science and knowledge production
- Gibbons (1999). Science's new social contract with society
- Keskinen (2010): Bringing back the common sense?
- Korhonen-Kurki et al (2022): Empirical insights into knowledge-weaving processes in strategic environmental research
- Nowotny et al. (2003): ‘Mode 2’ Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge
- Pohl (2005): Transdisciplinary collaboration in environmental research
- Pohl (2008): From science to policy through transdisciplinary research
- Stepanova et al. (2019): ...An interdisciplinary typology of knowledge types and their integration in practice
- Norström et al (2020): Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
- Biermann et al. (2010): Earth system governance: a research framework
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