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1 Sustainability and governance
Water and Governance Meeri Karvinen & Juho Haapala

2 Contents Sustainability: lecture and excersises Course Synthesis
Course Feedback

3 Sustain Ability Sustainable Development Scale Themes Actors
Perspective Sustain Ability Sustainable Values Development

4 Scale Time Intergenerational Anthropocene Evolutionary
Need to know the past and present to be able to predict the future Place Global - regional National - local North - South Power relations, hegemony, different voices, minorities, cultures Picture: C. Ezgeta Picture: Kates, R., et al. 2001: Sustainability science. Science, 292(5517),

5 Scale Ultimately the scale is globe, and all the actions in lower levels affect globally Natural flows: energy, nutrients, water Social flows: people and their ideas + cultures, religions Economical flows: trade of food, goods etc. Pictures: NASA

6 Themes ESE: Environment, Socio-cultural, economic
Picture: Marko Keskinen

7 Perspective Planetary or universe-wide?
Human-centered or human as a part of nature? Demography, geography, religion The Doughnut model The Oxfam Doughnut Model: Raworth, K. 2012: A safe and just space for humanity: can we live within the doughnut. Oxfam Policy and Practice: Climate Change and Resilience 8(1). Which is the key perspective? Is there a key perspective?

8 Pair bubble What is a safe and just space for humanity? What is your perspective?

9 Actors Variety of actors from public to private,
from civil society to academia, from individuals to groups of people and organizations Nation-state is often the key in SD implementation  is nation-centered approach a threat or a possibility? What would the situation be without nation-states? Picture: OECD July 2016: Measuring the distance to SDGs targets p.27:

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11 Agenda 2030 (the SDGs) in Finnish universities
Top down Global agreements, the UN Global university collaboration Interaction Top down University strategy and values EU strategy and directives Awareness & knowledge Political will and ambition Funding mechanisms Monitoring Science & education University administration Finnish legislation Nordic collaboration Impact Partners, stakeholders Impact Finnish strategy Implementation in campus, research, teaching, outreach National Implementation + municipalities Bottom up Bottom up Finnish officials Finnish civil society Students, campus residents Staff

12 Sustainability in university strategies
Aalto University Åbo Akademi University Hanken School of Economics Lappeenranta University of Technology Tampere University of Technology University of Eastern Finland University of Helsinki University of Jyväskylä University of Lapland University of Oulu University of Tampere University of Turku University of Vaasa University of the Arts Helsinki Or your own/international university Quickly browse trough a university strategy and list sentences and statements that relate somehow to sustainable development (10min) Find a pair: Compare your findings and write them down (10min) You can discuss the strategies e.g. based on the lecture: Scale: Is there any timeline or place-related mentions in the strategy? Themes of SD: are all pillars mentioned and how? Perspective: Do you find any particular perspective? Actors: Does the strategy mention who the actor should be? Share with the class

13 Sustainability, governance, and values I
Sustainability? A buzzword for all things good??  What are the main values underlying sustainability? What’s missing? Which other values are important (for the society / for individuals)? Are some of them contradictory to sustainability?

14 Sustainability, governance, and values II
Find (the) most sustainable solution(s) to your collective problem of the role play session… Remember to consider your ’field of interest’ from Friday Come up with concensus solution(s) One sustainable solution or various sustainable solutions? Why? Does the concensus differ from the solution achieved on Friday? Why? How much does ’what is sustainable’ depend on your viewpoints – is it a mutual concensus of opinions or an objective, scientific fact??

15 Course Synthesis I Governance analysis:
Which governance analysis methods did you find useful?? Which tools/methods do you ’take home’ from the course??

16 Course Synthesis II Learning outcomes??
Do you see ’water and governance’ in a different way now?

17 Course Feedback What went well, in general? Things to improve?
Mention 3 things that went really well, and 3 things that need improvement for the next year (TBD in groups)  submission to presemo: Wrapping up the group work Mention 2 things that went really well, and 2 things that would have gone better (TBD in groups)

18 TBD to get the credits… Peer evaluation (peer assessment in MyCourses)
Peer assessment form and further instructions are available at MyCourses 50% of your grade – grading is anonymous. DL 24.2. Personal reflections (pass/fail) and Reading Circle Briefs (25% of the grade) Personal syntheses (to compensate missed sessions) DL: 24.2??

19 The end - Happy Valentine’s!!


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