Sustainability and governance Water and Governance Meeri Karvinen

Sustainability and governance Water and Governance Meeri Karvinen & Juho Haapala 14. 2. 2017

Contents 1. Sustainability: lecture and excersises 2. Course Synthesis 3. Course Feedback

Sustain Ability Scale Actors Themes Perspective Sustainable Development Values

Scale Picture: C. Ezgeta http: //www. collectiveevolution. com/2017/02/0 2/these-15 -satiricalillustrations-will-makeyou-question-humanevolution Time Place Intergenerational Anthropocene Evolutionary Global - regional National - local North - South Need to know the past and present to be able to predict the future Power relations, hegemony, different voices, minorities, cultures Picture: Kates, R. , et al. 2001: Sustainability science. Science, 292(5517), 641 -642.

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

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

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?

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

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: http: //www. oecd. org/std/OECD-Measuring -Distance-to-SDGs-Targets-Pilot-Study. pdf

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

Sustainability in university strategies 1. Quickly browse trough a university strategy and list sentences and statements that relate somehow to sustainable development (10 min) 2. Find a pair: Compare your findings and write them down (10 min) You can discuss the strategies e. g. based on the lecture: a) Scale: Is there any timeline or place-related mentions in the strategy? b) Themes of SD: are all pillars mentioned and how? c) Perspective: Do you find any particular perspective? d) Actors: Does the strategy mention who the actor should be? 3. Share with the class • 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

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?

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? ?

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

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

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: http: //presemo. aalto. fi/wat/ • Wrapping up the group work • Mention 2 things that went really well, and 2 things that would have gone better (TBD in groups)

TBD to get the credits… • Peer evaluation (peer assessment in My. Courses) • Peer assessment form and further instructions are available at My. Courses • 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? ?

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