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Course Catalog 2012-2013
BIO-5256 Management Options of Water Services, 3 cr |
Additional information
The course is organized every second year. The course will be lectured in the academic year 2012-13. The course will be organized provided that at least 12 students will participate.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Pekka Pietilä, Tapio Katko
Lessons
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Requirements
Proactive attendance in lessons and essay seminars. Participants will prepare and present essay seminars on related topics or cases to be selected.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning
The course is based on active student-student-teacher interaction. Lectures and other material form a knowledge base the students can utilize in classroom discussions and in their small research report. A vital part of the course is a small research project the students will carry out either individually or in groups.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to distinguish various management options of water and sanitation services. The student will be able to analyze their differences and similarities. The student will be able to analyze the reasons why management practices vary in different countries and within a country. A vital part of the course is a small research project, where the student will exercise the skill to analyze available knowledge and compile a report.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Water resources vs. water services, priorities of water use purposes, water services and related stakeholders | History: lessons to be learnt for the futures | Selected examples of historical development of water services |
| 2. | Public-private and public-public partnerships | Various types of partnerships, why tradition is different in different countries, development trends | Classifications of partnerships, analysis of examples in a number of selected countries, major international players |
| 3. | Regional and municipal cooperation in water services | Reasons for different arrangements in various countries/situations | Role of government policy |
| 4. | Viability assessment tools, benchmarking, performance indicators | Utilization of tools in concrete cases |
Evaluation criteria for the course
The course is based on a) the active participation of students during classroom discussions, b) research reports (written document), and c) oral presentations of the research reports. To pass the course the student has to show activity during classroom situations, the report has to be properly compiled and the oral presentation on standard level. The course is assessed on scale 0-5.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| BIO-4100 Water Supply and Sewerage Systems | Advisable |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
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