EESI Programme 20067 Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Introduction

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentIntroduction

• This mornings agenda
• 1 Staff 15 min 0h15 - 0815
• 2 Students 75 min 1h30 - 0930
• 3 Overview 15 min 1h45 - 0945
• 4 Aim and Objectives 15 min 2h00 - 1000
• Break 30 min 2h30 - 1030
• 5 Organisation 15 min 2h45 - 1045
• 6 Literature 15 min 3h00 - 1100
• 7 Change Project 30 min 3h30 - 1130
• 8 Examination for Accreditation 15 min 3h45 -
  1145
• 9 Our anticipations - 10 min 3h55 - 1155
• 10 Reflection 5 min 4h00 - 1200

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction1 Staff

• Head Lecturer, overall responsible for Course
• Dr Nils Viking
• Head of International Programmes
• Division of Urban and Regional Studies
• Department of Urban Planning and Environment
• School of Architecture and the Built Environment
• Architect, Planner and Researcher, BArch
  (Strathclyde), MSc in Urban Planning
• Studies (Oxford Brookes), PhD in Urban Planning
  (KTH)
• Tel [phone] e-mail nils_at_infra.kth.se

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction1 Staff, cont

• Course Assistant
• Feras Hammami
• Architect
• BArch (Al-Najah)
• MSc in Spatial Planning (KTH)
• Tel [phone] e-mail firas_at_infra.kth.se

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction2 Student

• You
• - your name, nationality and home country?
• - your educational background?
• - your country development context?
• Your visions
• - on an optimistic note?
• - risk that may disturb your optimistic vision?
• Your anticipations of our Course
• - what have you thought you would gain?

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview

• Definition
• Sustainable development?
• development that meets the needs of the
  present without compromising the ability of
  future generations to meet their own needs.
• World Commission on Environment and
  Development -
• the Brundtland Commission
• - relevance and validity of definition?
• - other definitions?

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview, cont

• Stipulations
• - à priori assumptions
• - Planet Earth in trouble
• - general human rights, necessary base
• - Intra-national and international macro
  development
• imbalance threat to prospects of sustainable
  development
• - elite versus non-elite - micro development
  imbalance threat
• to prospects of sustainable development
• - need to recognise peoples different starting
  positions in life

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview, cont

• Subject in Context
• rapid population growth
• - population growth in developing parts
  predicted to
• far exceed that of developed parts
  1986-2050
• 4.8 billion in developing parts
• 200 million in developed parts
• 
  Where is the action going to be?
• rapid urbanisation, ie growth in-migration
• - rapid urbanisation rate in developing
  parts, doubling 1995-
• 2020!
• - 50 urban population in developing parts
  in 2025
• 
  What will happen to rural areas?

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and
Urban DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview,
cont

• Terminology
• distributive justice - how to share something
• retributive justice - how to deal with
  criminal retribution
• South - underdeveloped or developing
  regions, countries,
• cities, rural areas, or part thereof, not
  necessarily in the
• geographical global South
• North - overdeveloped or developed
  regions, countries, cities,
• rural areas, or part thereof, not
  necessarily in the geographical
• global North

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and
Urban DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview,
Terminology, cont

• crosscutting issues - issues that connect with
  a problem
• or are inextricably part of a problem, eg,
  gender, poverty and
• environment
• enabling - generally assisting, making it
  easier to realise
• provide - organise something as gift
• facilitate - organise favourable pre-conditions
  for something desired to materialise

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview, cont

• Connectivities
• With EESIs Political Economy for Environmental
  Planners,
• SURD assumes familiarity with, and does not
  discuss in depth,
• political economy induced strategies, approaches
  and relations.
• economic strategies and models, eg, market
  economy
• induced industrialism
• top-down versus bottom-up approaches
• core-periphery relations as of dependency
• versus anti-dependency school
• spatial imbalances as of South-North debate

For deeper understanding
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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction3 Overview
Connectivities, cont

• With EESIs Human Settlement and Housing,
• SURD assumes familiarity with, and does not
  discuss, in depth,
• settlement and housing strategies/approaches.
• - World Urban Forum
• (http//www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/default.asp)
• - Sustainable Cities
• (http//www.unchs.org/programmes/sustainablecitie
  s/)
• - UN-Habitat and World Bank induced Cities
  Alliance
• (http//www.ifc.org/ifcxt/minicipalfund.nfs/
• Content/Cities_Alliance)

For deeper understanding
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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction4 Aim, Objectives
and Delimitation

• Aim
• - contribution towards facilitating you
• to make you own contribution towards
  sustainable development
• Objectives
• - guidance towards enabling you to
• a) gain knowledge on theories and practices
  towards sustainable
• development
• b) identify main concepts on sustainable
  development
• c) analyse relations between
  socio-political-economic and
• environmental planning
• d) gain insight to development processes
  from perspectives of different
• actors and stakeholders
• e) explore, describe, explain and prescribe
  ways towards sustainable
• urban and rural development

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction4 Aim, Objectives
and Delimitation, cont

• Course Delimitation
• - à priori stipulations underpins course
  assumptions
• - overview of theories, practices and actors
• - perspectives of delimited development process
  agents
• - unveiling of delimited relations between
  socio-economic and
• environmental development
• - effects of delimited development strategies
  and policies on
• natural resource use, space organisation,
  economy and
• environment

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction5 Organisation

• Interaction with Expert on pre-determined subject
  matter related to sustainable urban and/or rural
  development issue, including vital crosscutting
• Team Work to deepen understanding of subject
  matter interacted upon to progress chosen Change
  Project for examination, incl presentation and
  opposition in plenum presentations
• Individual Work work on (a) Compendium and other
  pre-selected literature, relevant Web references
  and general Web and literature references
  relating to interactions with Experts and, (b)
  pre-selected Compendium literature for paper (x2)
  writing (for examination)
• Opportunity to Connect Theory with Reality
  through Change Projects, central to Course

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and
DevelopmentCourse Introduction5 Organisation,
cont

• Examination through (a) continuous,
  prescriptive, Scientific Paper Writing based on
  chosen Change Project that may be realised and
  where prescription should be LFA based (Team
  Work) (b) structured literature review papers
  (x2) of pre-selected topics associated with
  literature seminars (Individual Work) and, (c)
  Team Work in presentation and oppostion of Change
  Projects in Plenum
• Opportunity for Interaction with Key Actors
  from government, donor community, media and civic
  society may open doors for external thesis work
  supervision
• Opportunity for Exchange of Ideas and
  Experiences in organised discussions with fellow
  Students
• Practice of Plenum Presentation and Opposition

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction6 Literature

• Pre-selected Literature in Compendium for
  obligatory, preparatory, individual reading for
  (a) ease of interaction in Expert session and,
  (b) individual structured review in association
  with literature seminars
• Relevant Web References for obligatory,
  preparatory, individual reading for (a) ease of
  interaction in Expert sessions and, (b) support
  in reviewing literature
• General Web and Literature References for
  optional reading for a deepened understanding
  useful for Change Project and for future thesis
  work

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project

• Central pedagogic tool in Course
• Purpose to connect theory with practice
• How?
• - Students are, during afternoon session
  preceding Team
• Exercise 7 November, assigned Teams (based on
  mixed
• gender, geo-political and educational
  background of
• Students) by Course Staff
• - Teams decide Chairperson and Rapporteur(s),
• 7 November, for First Plenum on Draft Change
  Projects
• 10 November these positions must have
  different
• persons attached to them for Second Plenum 21
• November

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project,
cont

• - Teams identify, during afternoon session,
  preceding
• Team Exercise 7 November, a pertinent problem
• for sustainable development in one Team
  Members
• home context
• - Teams problem needs to be connected to a MDG
  given
• to Team during afternoon session, preceding
• Team Exercise 7 November, by Course Staff

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project,
cont

• - During afternoon session preceding Team
  Exercise, 7
• November, Teams are guided on
• (a) requirements of Scientific Paper Writing
  
• (b) how to use LFA in formulating Prescription
  in
• discussion part of Scientific Paper
  Writing

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project,
cont

• - During afternoon Team Exercise, 7 November,
• Teams work out and hand in to Course Staff
  interim
• (a) Change Project problem formulation
• (b) IMRAD-based structure of Change Project
  paper, later
• to constitute examination paper
• (c) LFA-based anticipated prescriptive part of
  discussion
• in Change Project examination paper

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project,
cont

• - During First Plenum on Change project, 10
  November,
• randomly then chosen half number of Teams
  chosen
• Rapporteurs present in max 10 min Teams First
  Draft Change
• Project Paper in Power Point
• - During First Plenum, 10 November, remaining
  half number of
• Teams chosen Rapporteurs oppose the Team who
  this day
• presented the common MDG in max 10 min
• - Course Staff comments on Plenum action of both
  presenters
• and opponents, on quality of structure,
  contents and
• presentation style in remaining time per
  linked presentation-
• opposition

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction7 Change Project,
cont

• - During the Second Change Project Plenum, 21
  November,
• Teams chosen Rapporteurs who did not present
  during First
• Plenum present in max 10 min Teams Second
  Draft , ie
• progressed, Change Project Paper in Power
  Point
• - During the Second Change Project Plenum, 21
  November,
• Teams chosen Rapporteurs who did not oppose
  during First
• Plenum oppose the Team who this day presented
  the common
• MDG in max 10 min
• - Teams may at their own discretion decide to
  choose more than
• one presenter and opponent, provided that
  they do not exceed
• respective time allocation

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction8 Accreditation

• 75 presence in scheduled Course activities
• - session registration is made immediately
  before
• scheduled activity starts, which means late
  comers will
• be registered as present only at the
  discretion of Course
• Staff after plausible excuse may be provided
  for late
• coming
• Active interaction in scheduled Course activities
  
• Active contribution to Team in scheduled Team
  Exercises

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction8 Accreditation,
cont

• Active performance in Team work on Change
  Projects Paper Writing for Examination
• - Team Members should approach Course Staff for
  advice,
• should other Team Members be perceived as
  non-
• performing
• Approved Change Project Examination Paper
• - Students decide if (a) paper should be graded
  on
• separate parts authored by different Team
  Members or,
• (b) if Team should be graded on aggregate
  performance

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction9 Our
Anticipations

• Staff assumes Students expect Staff to
• - be informed, communicative, constructive, open
  and friendly
• - active and enthusiastic
• - show respect for Course participants, ie
  Student and Expert
• - deal with any problems promptly
• Staff expects Students to
• - be prepared, communicative, constructive, open
  and friendly
• - be active and enthusiastic
• - show respect for Course participants, ie
  Expert, Staff and
• Fellow Student
• - raise any problems early

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EESI Programme 2006-7Sustainable Rural and Urban
DevelopmentCourse Introduction10 Reflection

• Approaches, issues or points?
• - academic
• - practical
• - other