Handbook on skills and Competencies 1
The SUSTAIN project stands for Strengthening higher education in Urban Sustainability and Transitions towards internationalization of Academic Institutions and Networks.
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Co-funded by: The SUSTAIN project is funded by the European Commission and co-financed by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).
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Contents Executive Summary Introduction: Learning for the cities of tomorrow
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How to use the Skills and Competencies Handbook Defining skills and competencies Skills and competencies from the SUSTAIN modules
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SUSTAIN Modules: Skills and Competencies Module 1: Sustainable urban development and planning Module 2: Urban transition management Module 3: Corporate sustainability and green cities Module 4: Climate resilient urban development Module 5: Urban infrastructure Module 6: Sustainable energy and low carbon development Module 7: The governance of sustainable mobility and urban planning Module 8: Sustainable urban water management Module 9: Sustainable urban tourism
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Executive Summary Within the coming 50 years, about two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in towns and cities. Furthermore, in 2008 at the IV UN-Habitat World Urban Forum on harmonious urbanization it was forecasted that over the next 15 years, over 90 percent of the urban growth will occur primarily in developing countries. This is a major issue and a challenge for urban growth since we already currently see that inadequate urban development negatively significantly impacts natural resources and the environment due to poor planning, misinformed or unfit urban design, air and water pollution, increase in waste generation. All of the above urban growth challenges also lead to a rapid increase in carbon emissions contributing to global climate change. Additionally, cities are often poorly equipped to weather the impacts of natural disasters, climate change, contaminated or unstable land and health pandemics. As these increase in frequency and intensity with global climate change and variability, many cities will need massive investments in infrastructure, public services, institutional capacity, and environmental programs to improve basic security, health, resilience and over-all conditions of their urban residents. In this context, cities need to develop the capacity and implement the policies that will enable their sustainable urban development. Higher education has a significant role to play in this endeavor, through the education and training of future urban professionals, including managers and planners. There is a growing interest on research and education in new urban issues in EU as well as in non-EU countries due to their scale and pace of urbanization as well as to the speed of change these countries experience overall. Education needs to cope with this pace of change and provide knowledge and build skills to young professionals to deal with challenges that lie ahead. With these in mind, the SUSTAIN Project aims to: »» To develop innovative learning packages on sustainable urban development (SUD). »» To promote collaboration and international cooperation between European and Asian Higher education institutions in SUD. »» To improve the quality of higher education SUD in Europe and partner universities in Asia. »» To establish links and bridge higher education and practice in SUD. »» To increase the employability of students. This Handbook on Skills and Competencies accompanies the Teacher’s Guide on Sustainable Urban Development and the 9 modules in the SUSTAIN curriculum and provides an overview of the skills and competencies that can be developed by utilizing and taking part in the SUSTAIN modules. It distinguishes between academic and vocational skills and also indicates the means of assessment that are used for each module. With this handbook we hope to support teachers, their students, and young professionals with building the necessary skills and competencies that will make them the sustainable urban development experts for the cities of tomorrow!
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Introduction: Learning for the cities of tomorrow In the next 50 years about two thirds of the world’s population will be living in urbanised areas. This rapid urbanization puts high pressure on existing resources, infrastructure and creates many challenges for sustainable urban development (SUD). Currently, many unregulated urban developments significantly and negatively impact natural resources and the environment due to poor planning, misinformed or unfit urban design, air and water pollution, increase in waste generation. All of the above urban growth challenges also lead to a rapid increase in carbon emissions contributing to global climate change. Cities today are also too often poorly equipped to weather the impacts of natural disasters, climate change, contaminated or unstable land and health pandemics. As these increase in frequency and intensity with global climate change and variability, many cities will need massive investments in infrastructure, public services, institutional capacity, and environmental programs to improve basic security, health, resilience and over-all conditions of their urban residents. In this context, cities need to develop the capacity and implement the policies that will enable their sustainable urban development. Higher education has a significant role to play in this endeavor, through the education and training of future urban managers and planners. There is a growing interest on research and education in new urban issues in EU as well as in non-EU countries due to their scale and pace of urbanization as well as to the speed of change these countries experience overall. Education needs to cope with this pace of change and provide knowledge and build skills to young professionals to deal with challenges that lie ahead. By promoting European higher education on sustainable urban development and stimulating cooperation between European and Asian educational institutes, the SUSTAIN project aims to provide a platform for academics and lecturers that will facilitate their exchange and modernization of education curricula for SUD. Simultaneously, the SUSTAIN project provides a curriculum on sustainable urban development specifically catered for students and young professionals who are interested to study and work in this field and become leaders of sustainable urban development. This Handbook on Skills and Competencies accompanies the Teacher’s Guide on Sustainable Urban Development and the 9 modules in the SUSTAIN curriculum by providing an overview of the skills and competencies that can be obtained by taking part in the lectures based on the SUSTAIN course material. It distinguishes between specific academic as well as vocational skills and also indicates means ways of assessment that are recommended for each module.  
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A. How to use the Skills and Competencies Handbook
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Defining skills and competencies The educational modules of the SUSTAIN project are not only about imparting knowledge about urban sustainability, but also developing skills and competencies, meaning the expertise and ability of students to do something well, successfully and efficiently – enabling them to act in a wide variety of situations. Here we refer to both vocational skills: knowledge and competencies required for, relating to, or concerned with a particular occupation or job function; and academic skills: those skills that are needed to do well in an educational setting, at university or other research and scientific settings. This first part (A) of the Handbook gives an overview and description of each of the vocational and academic skills that can be developed through the SUSTAIN educational modules. For each skill, we list the modules that explicitly aim at their development. Part B then provides more detail on each of the 9 SUSTAIN modules, with a brief description of the module, the set of skills and competencies that are developed within the module, and how they are assessed.
Skills and competencies from the SUSTAIN modules The next pages list the vocational and academic skills that are addressed and developed through the 9 educational SUSTAIN modules: Module 1: Sustainable urban development and planning Module 2: Urban transition management Module 3: Corporate sustainability and green cities Module 4: Climate resilient urban development Module 5: Urban infrastructure Module 6: Sustainable energy and low carbon development Module 7: The governance of sustainable mobility and urban planning Module 8: Sustainable urban water management Module 9: Sustainable urban tourism
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Vocational Skills Thematic expertise
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Participants will gain significant and relevant theoretical and thematic expertise in the field of the module, including key concepts, theories, challenges and solutions.
Creativity
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Enables the participant form creative and progressive thoughts and apply them to the relevant field of research, strategy, policy or decision-making.
Critical thinking and argumentation skills
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Participants will learn to engage in critical reflections and argumentative discussions with peers and supervisors, as well as communicate their knowledge and skills effectively, through self-assessments and group discussions. They will also be able to understand, discuss and critically reflect on advanced textbooks and scientific articles.
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Participants will learn how to apply theoretical concepts and their acquired knowledge to practical cases through a variety of methods in order to make pragmatic decisions under complex and/or uncertain conditions in the context of their professional duties.
Prioritization skills
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Participants will learn to assess and prioritize challenges and actions in various contexts for research, policy and decision-making.
Collaborative and team work skills
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Participants will learn to engage with colleagues, professionals, scientists and civil society hailing from diverse and multidisciplinary backgrounds in an appropriate and effective manner as part of discussions or work projects. Participants will learn the benefits and skills of group work as part of collaborative learning exercises and peer-to-peer review.
Adaptive capacity
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Participants will learn to work and co-exist in multi-cultural environments through cooperation, collaboration and understanding, as well as gaining the ability to apply their knowledge and understanding in diverse practical contexts.
Planning and decision-making skills
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Participants will acquire planning and decision-making skills in different contexts using support tools to inform decisions and action plans.
Problem solving skills
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Participants will learn to develop strategies addressing specific issues.
Cost-benefit analysis skills
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Capacity analysis skills
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Participants will learn how to perform a carrying capacity analysis.
Policy-making skills
Participants will learn how to develop policies in the relevant field of decision-making and policy-making.
Strategic development and marketing skills
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Participants will be able to develop a strategic marketing plan for a specific project.
Strategy evaluation
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Participants will learn to evaluate a business strategy.
Energy budgeting skills
Participants will learn to calculate basic energy balances and use basic energy planning tools.
Academic Skills Methodical and critical learning skills
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Participants will be able to critically read and evaluate diverse sources of information relevant to the field of the module.
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Participants will gain the ability to identify and use qualitative and quantitative data to formulate responses to concrete and abstract problems.
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Participants will gain the ability to develop an analytical understanding and a reflexive attitude towards the complexity of the relevant field of the module.
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Participants will acquire skills to communicate their ideas in written form and present them orally.
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B. SUSTAIN Modules: Skills and Competencies
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MODULE 1: SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING The challenge of sustainable urban development calls for professionals who can bridge disciplinary borders. Learn about approaches and methods for developing integrative strategies to achieve urban sustainability in city planning. Get introduced to urban sustainability thinking and equipped with critical view on current strategies and how to introduce urban sustainability-oriented strategies and plans. The broad concept of “sustainability” has become a goal in most official city planning documents and actions plans. It is a guiding principle pertaining to many different practices across a wide range of sectors (energy, building, transport, agriculture, supply chains, biodiversity conservation, etc.). For this reason the challenges of sustainable urban development call for experts and professionals who can bridge silos and implement inter-disciplinary urban development and planning solutions. Only trained individuals with a holistic understanding of the multiple and interdisciplinary aspects of sustainable development will be able to successfully adapt urban design and planning practices to the environmental challenges and societal needs of the future. This Sustainable Urban Development and Planning module provides an introduction to planning for urban settlements in a holistic and sustainable manner with respect to long-term human and environmental considerations.
Vocational Skills
This module broadens the discussion on building urban resilience by actively engaging students in a simulated local climate action planning exercise, where they can apply their acquired knowledge and skills.
• Thematic expertise: Participants completing this module will master the appropriate glossary of sustainable urban development and planning disciplines. • Problem solving skills: This module will help participants develop appropriate sustainable urban development strategies addressing specific planning issues. • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants completing this module should be able to support the decision-making process for sustainable urban development and planning, including in their capacity to write reports and design a decision-making process. • Prioritization skills: Participants will be able to identify and prioritize city-level climate change adaptation actions.
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• Critical thinking and argumentation skills: Participants completing this module should be able to support the decision-making process for sustainable urban development and planning, including in their capacity to rationally formulate a structured approach to design a decision-making process.
• Use of data or tools for decision support: This module will train participants to use basic sustainable urban development and planning tools, such as indicators of sustainability, stakeholders analysis, multi-criteria analysis, GIS, Evaluation tools (multi-agent simulation, the ecological footprint, life cycle analysis, fuzzy set theory), strategic impact assessment, and cognitive mapping Note: Completing the Sustainable Urban Development and Planning Module is a precondition for other modules of this course
Assessment Glossary acquisition assessment: Use of the relevant tools: Case study report and description: Total:
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MODULE 2: URBAN TRANSITION MANAGEMENT Developer: Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) Get informed about transition management and reflect on how to apply this approach in your urban context to mobilize existing potential towards action for urban sustainability. Learn how to organise and facilitate Transition Management processes for co-creating strategic urban agendas towards sustainability. Get equipped in selecting and collaborating with stakeholders across areas of expertise, society, science and policy/planning.
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This module introduces Transition Management for Urban Sustainability as DRIFT has researched and applied it in different cities in Europe, Australia, and Latin America. Together with policy entrepreneurs and society’s frontrunners we have developed strategic agendas and transition pathways to foster transformative change in negotiated domains employing tacit and expert knowledge through a co-creation process. The module will use case studies to guide students, novice researchers and urban professionals to a process-content thinking and to reflect on how to navigate societal complexity while mobilizing innovative and transformative societal potential towards sustainability. • Thematic expertise: Participants in this module will be able to describe the basic principles of sustainability transitions thinking and approach and apply them to urban cases. The participants will be able to make glocal connections between local urban challenges and broader global/national/regional macro-developments. • Problem solving skills: The successful completion of this module will enable participants to develop an analytical understanding and ability to diagnose persistent problems of unsustainability in cities by applying the sustainability transitions concepts and analytical tools (e.g. the systems analysis methodology). • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants will be able to organise and facilitate integrative and strategic Urban Transition Management processes for agenda building towards urban sustainability, as well as find and select stakeholders for Urban Transition Management processes across areas of expertise, society, science and planning. • Theory-to-practice application skills: Be able to apply a heuristic transition management framework to make pragmatic decisions in a context of complexity and uncertainty. • Collaborative and team work skills: Participants will become open to learn and integrate new insights and knowledge with colleagues about urban sustainability, as well as engage with other professionals, scientists and civil society ethically and effectively. This module will give them the skills to work in groups to identify and discuss sustainability problems. They will also acquire skills to engage with multidisciplinary (interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary) knowledge and expertise in solution seeking processes for integrated urban sustainability governance.
Academic Skills
• Creativity: Creativity is required for formulating and identifying new types of interventions that can co-create transition pathways for urban sustainability.
• Oral and written communication skills: Participants will acquire skills to communicate effectively ones understanding of an urban (unsustainability) problem and potential strategies for tackling it in real-life situations. • Analytical skills: Participants will develop an analytical understanding and a reflexive attitude towards the complexity of urban sustainability transitions.
Assessment Active participation in group discussions: Group exercise/Oral presentation: Dialogue Brief(s): Final Exam or Essay: Total:
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MODULE 3: CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND GREEN CITIES Business is a critical urban actor as it both directly contributes to sustainability problems but has also the capacity to provide solutions. Learn how to apply a range of strategic tools relevant for corporate sustainability and green cities. Get equipped to formulate and execute an elevator pitch suitable for a corporate director audience.
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Growing numbers of companies are seeking to tackle complex sustainability issues of cities and seek new business models to create real value to society in the long-term. This module introduces the topic of corporate sustainability and considers its importance to the urban context. It explains how firms formulate strategies for sustainable cities and considers how they may innovate to create shared value. The module provides an overview of key topics such as social entrepreneurship and circular economy and gives consideration to the future directions and cutting-edge practices of business in cities.
• Thematic expertise: The participant is able to understand the concept of corporate sustainability and the roles of business within the city context. The participant is able to identify and explain state-of-the art practices and formulate an outlook on the future of business for green cities. At the end of this module the participant is able to understand how businesses can innovate for green cities. • Strategy evaluation: At the end of this module the participant is able to evaluate business strategies for sustainable cities. • Theory-to-practice application skills: The participant is able to apply a range of strategic tools relevant for corporate sustainability and green cities. • Critical thinking and argumentation skills: At the end of this module the participant is able to express and defend their opinions about what constitutes an effective corporate sustainability strategy.
Academic Skills
• Creativity: The participant is able to create a progressive business strategy for sustainable cities based on identified opportunities.
• Oral and written communication skills: At the end of this module the participant is able to formulate and execute an elevator pitch suitable for a corporate director audience. The participant is able to write a strategy report suitable for the boardroom. • Analytical skills: Participants will gain the ability to develop an analytical understanding and a reflexive attitude towards the complexity of business and sustainable cities.
Assessment Business Case Report: Individual CEO Pitch: Total:
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MODULE 4: CLIMATE RESILIENT URBAN DEVELOPMENT How can cities deal with climate change and development demands at the same time? Learn how to plan for local climate change actions applying easy and accessible decision-making tools. Ability and approaches to critically read and evaluate information sources for advancing and updating their climate action plans. Cities are responsible for a large amount of the anthropogenic sources of climate change, due to their share of the global energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. Throughout the world, cities are also facing significant impacts and stress from climate change, climate variability and extreme weather events threatening both their population and assets. The Climate Resilient Urban Development (CRUD) module lays the foundation for understanding how cities can manage the impacts of climate change. It does so by introducing the basic concepts of urban climate resilience and adaptation as well as presenting key city examples.
Vocational Skills
This module broadens the discussion on building urban resilience by actively engaging students in a simulated local climate action planning exercise, where they can apply their acquired knowledge and skills.
• Thematic expertise: Participants will gain an understanding and analysis of city vulnerability profiles. • Theory-to-practice application skills: Participants will be able to apply theoretical concepts to practical cases through integrated assessments (e.g. the use of multi-criteria, cost effective and cost-benefit analysis in the prioritization of climate change issues and actions). • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants will develop planning and decision-making skills for climate change using an excel-based decision support tool. Participants will also learn how to plan for local climate change actions. • Prioritization skills: Participants will be able to identify and prioritize city-level climate change adaptation actions. • Critical thinking and argumentation skills: Through the use of self-assessments and group discussions, participants will be able to engage in critical reflections and argumentative discussions.
Academic Skills
• Collaborative and team work skills: Participants will learn the benefits and skills of group work as part of collaborative learning exercises and peer-to-peer review.
• Methodical and critical learning skills: Participants will be able to critically read and evaluate diverse sources of information (e.g. secondary data from vulnerability assessments). • Critical reading and analysis: Participants will be able to critically read and evaluate information sources (relevant literature and secondary data from discussed examples in the lectures). • Use of data or tools for decision support: Participants will gain the ability to identify and use qualitative and quantitative data to formulate responses to concrete and abstract problems. • Analytical skills: Participants will be able to analyze climate change decision-making methods (e.g. familiarity and understanding of cost effectiveness analysis, cost benefit analysis and multiple criteria analysis).
Assessment Self-assessments (multiple choice questions, essays, group discussions): Group exercise (on prioritization of actions for urban climate resilience): Total:
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MODULE 5: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE Technical infrastructures are backbones for urban livelihoods and economies, integrate (or splinter) cities socially and spatially, and mediate resource flows between nature and the city. Foster the ability to work and co-exist in multicultural environments through cooperation, collaboration and understanding. Apply the newly acquired knowledge and understanding on urban infrastructures in practical contexts.
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The Urban Infrastructure module introduces the history, the key characteristics and the ecological, socio-spatial and economic issues concerning urban infrastructures. This module provides an overview of the issues of sustainable urban infrastructure development patterns, infrastructural crises, and debates on social and technical solutions for urban infrastructure as part of sustainable spatial, environmental and infrastructure planning. Additionally, this module looks at the co-evolution of these urban support systems with cities in the contexts of splintering urbanism and environmental degradation.
• Thematic expertise: This module will provide participants with general knowledge and understanding in the field of sustainable urban infrastructure development. • Critical thinking and argumentation skills: Participants completing this module should be able to engage effectively and appropriately with peers and supervisors as well as communicate their knowledge, skills and responsibilities. They will also be able to understand, discuss and critically reflect on advanced textbooks and scientific articles. • Theory-to-practice application skills: Participants will be able to apply theoretical concepts to practical cases through integrated assessments (e.g. the use of multi-criteria, cost effective and cost-benefit analysis in the prioritization of climate change issues and actions). • Collaborative and team work skills: Participants should be able to demonstrate group work skills through problem solving within interdisciplinary teams for urban infrastructure governance and planning.
Academic Skills
• Adaptive capacity: Participants completing this module should be able to work and co-exist in multi-cultural environments through cooperation, collaboration and understanding. Participants will also gain the ability to apply their knowledge and understanding on urban infrastructures in such practical contexts.
• Oral and written communication skills: Participants will gain the ability to present their ideas in written form and present them orally. • Methodical and critical learning skills: Participants will acquire methodical and critical learning skills enabling them to undertake further studies. • Use of data or tools for decision support: Participants will gain the ability to identify and use qualitative and quantitative data to formulate responses to concrete and abstract problems.
Assessment Active participation in the class and group discussion: Oral presentation of research on urban infrastructure: Research paper (2,500 words): Total:
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MODULE 6: SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND LOW CARBON DEVELOPMENT Cities absorb roughly three quarters of the world’s fossil fuel production and will soon be under great pressure to find alternative energy sources. Become proficient in calculating basic energy balances and using basic energy planning tools. Today, the growth and operations of cities and urbanized areas around the world consume roughly three-quarters of the world’s fossil fuel production. This is a staggering amount given that fossil fuels account for the 80% of the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in atmosphere. Yet, 75% of total global commercial energy use is still supplied by fossil fuels. In this context, the module aims at providing basic concepts, methods and approaches for the sustainable energy and low-carbon (re)development of new and existing urban areas.
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Starting from the fundamental concepts of energy saving, conservation, efficiency and production from renewable sources, the module gives the instruments to integrate those pillars into low-carbon urban planning and design.
• Thematic expertise: Participants completing this module will master the appropriate glossary of sustainable urban development and planning disciplines also considering the energy and low-carbon development glossaries. • Problem solving skills: This module will train participants to develop strategies for sustainable energy planning in urban areas. • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants completing this module should be able to support the decision-making process for sustainable urban development and planning, including in their capacity to write reports and design a decision-making process. • Energy budgeting skills: Participants will become proficient in calculating basic energy balances and using basic energy planning tools. • Critical thinking and argumentation skills: Participants completing this module will acquire a critical viewpoint on the interactions between sustainable urban development and planning and other disciplines. Note: The Sustainable Urban Development and Planning Module is a precondition to other modules of this course.
Assessment Glossary acquisition assessment: Use of the relevant tools: Case study report and description: Total:
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MODULE 7: THE GOVERNANCE OF SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY AND URBAN PLANNING In urban areas, mobility is a core issue and the realization of sustainable mobility is a complex task. Learn about social cost benefit analysis of urban transport projects. With this module, participants will learn more about the different aspects of governance in the urban mobility sector. Participants will learn about the challenges and needs in urban mobility governance along with available strategies, policies and solutions. This module will also present cases, trends and transitions that characterize and define urban mobility governance. This module will provide the knowledge and technical tools that can be applied in sustainable mobility planning and management.
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The module is relevant for students, researchers, policy makers and project managers.
• Thematic expertise: Participants enrolled in this module will gain knowledge of transition studies and governance, knowledge of transition management and an understanding of the contribution of transition studies to sustainable urban mobility. • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants completing this module will gain insights into sustainable urban and mobility planning strategies • Problem solving skills: Participants will learn to design policies and solutions to address sustainable urban mobility planning.
Academic Skills
• Cost-benefit analysis skills: Participants will also learn about social cost benefit analysis of transport projects.
• Research skills: Students completing this module will gain strong research skills including research methodology.
Assessment Method of assessment 1: Assignment 1 (to be defined): Method of assessment 2: Assignment 2 (to be defined): Method of assessment 3: Group Exercise Etc.
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MODULE 8: SUSTAINABLE URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT Water is one of the most important and all-encompassing urban resources. Learn to identify and prioritize city-level sustainable urban water management actions. Be equipped to engage in leadership activities in urban water-related planning and decision-making. The explosive growth of urbanization is resulting in a growing pressure on resources, especially water. Simultaneously, most cities are situated in deltas which are vulnerable in case of flooding. Enhanced by climate change urban growth gives rise to many water related problems such as sanitation issues, water scarcity, decline of water quality. Therefore sustainable water management is a core issue of urban development and management and relates to many challenges of living in urban environments.
Vocational Skills
Through analytical understanding and the building up of skills and expertise this module learns to describe and analyze the multidimensional issues of urban development that relate to urban water in the context of climatic change. It provides knowledge and insights about new management approaches and innovative solution strategies.
• Thematic expertise: Participants will gain an analytical understanding of governance processes and leadership activities in urban water-related planning and decision-making. • Theory-to-practice application skills: Participants will learn to apply theoretical concepts to practical cases (e.g. the use of stakeholder analysis and leadership analysis to analyze the student’s own urban environment with relation to SUWM). • Planning and decision-making skills: Participants will gain planning and decision making for SUWM, applying novel strategies such as desalinization or sustainable urban drainage systems. • Critical thinking and argumentation skills: Through the use of self-assessments and discussion boards, participants will be able to engage in critical reflections and argumentative discussions. Participants will be able to make an analysis of complex SUWM processes, critically reflect on the various viewpoints of different stakeholders in the process. • Prioritization skills: Participants will be able to identify and prioritize city-level SUWM actions.
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• Collaborative and team work skills: Participants will learn the benefits and skills of group work as part of collaborative learning exercises and peer-to-peer review.
• Critical reading and analysis: Participants will be able to critically read and evaluate information sources (relevant literature and secondary data from discussed examples in the lectures). • Analytical skills: Participants will be able to use concepts and theories in shaping their analysis of a SUWM situation
Assessment The report on the assessment and proposed solution: The presentation of the assessment and the solution: The group work: Total:
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MODULE 9: SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM Tourism in cities creates many sustainability issues. Learn how to develop policy guidelines for the public and private stakeholders of the urban tourism industry. Ability to analyze and evaluate tourism development in destinations in general and in cities in particular. Heritage cities and sites are unique public goods and as such their use as tourism destinations should not be left to chance. The absence of adequate tourism policies leads to either under-utilization or to over-utilization of these cultural and artistic resources. Both these models (under-utilization and over-utilization) are unsustainable as well as socially and economically inefficient. To manage heritage cities and sites in a manner that is sustainable, socially inclusive and economically viable, management strategies must be based on the understanding of the issues relevant to heritage cities specifically. One of the principal dimensions of such strategies is that it must be respectful of the carrying capacity of the city or the site in question. Indeed, visitor management is key to allow cultural and artistic destinations to develop in a sustainable way. Moreover, an adequate tourism marketing strategy can significantly contribute to the sustainability of tourism in heritage cities.
Vocational Skills
Keywords: sustainable tourism development, heritage cities, tourism policy, carrying capacity, visitor management; strategic marketing.
• Thematic expertise: Participants completed this module will gain thematic knowledge on the fundamentals of sustainable urban tourism, including: »» What characteristics do heritage cities possess and what issues do they have to deal with; »» Under what conditions tourism development in heritage cities becomes or remains sustainable; »» What role tourism policies can play in ensuring the sustainable development of these cities and sites; »» How the carrying capacity of a destination determines visitor management; »» That the development of sustainable tourism needs sustainable tourism marketing strategies. • Capacity analysis skills: Participants will learn how to perform a carrying capacity analysis. • Policy-making skills: Participants will be taught how to develop policy guidelines for the public and private stakeholders of the urban tourism industry.
Academic Skills
• Strategic development and marketing skills: Participants will be able to develop a strategic marketing plan for an urban tourism destination.
• Analytical skills: Participants will learn how to analyze and evaluate tourism development in destinations in general and in cities in particular.
Assessment Written examination: Case Study: Total:
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