WATER FOOTPRINT
- Course
- ENVE313 - WATER FOOTPRINT
- Department
- Environmental Engineering - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 4
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şifa DOĞAN
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
The aim of this course is to discuss personal, industrial and countrywide water consumption behavior and factors affecting it as well as strategies to achieve goals set for sustainable water consumption by United Nations. Some of the themes that will be covered in this course are water footprint, blue, green and grey water footprints, water footprint evaluation steps, personal water footprints, agricultural and industrial footprints, Country’s footprints, availability and dependency on water, status of country’s water footprints. Students will be able to calculate their own footprints. They will evaluate the water footprint values for various countries and discuss the differences. Students will observe the uneven distribution of the world’s water resources and also the differences in worldwide consumption habits. In this course the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly the ones involving water footprint themes will be investigated.
WATER FOOTPRINT
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Water Footprints: Concept, metrics, history |
| Week 3 | The Water Footprint Assessment (WFA) Framework |
| Week 4 | Agricultural Water Footprints |
| Week 5 | Industrial and Corporate Water Accounting |
| Week 6 | Review |
| Week 7 | Midterm exam |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam |
| Week 9 | Homework, project topic assignments and discussions |
| Week 10 | National and Consumer Water Footprints |
| Week 11 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 12 | Water Footprint Sustainability Assessment |
| Week 13 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 14 | Homework discussions (Project discussions, presentations) |
| Week 15 | Final exam |
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Program Outcomes
- P01 Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of key concepts across the breadth of effective application and use of MIS and innovative information technologies in organizations.
- P02 Demonstrate autonomy and responsibility in managing MIS projects and improving organizational processes
- P03 Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of appropriate enterprise frameworks, theories from the MIS to research and assess contemporary issues in the field and related allied fields and disciplines
- P04 Apply MIS knowledge to facilitate the acquisition, development, deployment, and management of information systems
- P05 Apply MIS knowledge to the exploitation of opportunities created by information technology innovations ensuring the alignment between MIS strategy and organizational strategy
- P06 Demonstrate ethical reasoning in relation to crucial MIS issues such as privacy, information security, and ethical use of information
- P07 Apply appropriate technologies and techniques to the collection and analysis of organizational and environmental data to facilitate evidence-based decision-making
- P08 Analyse organizational data to accurately identify organizational problems and propose solutions using MIS
- P09 Apply effective communication skills consistent with the professional environment
- P10 Apply effective collaboration skills consistent with the professional environment
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