Course Programme

You can view the full schedule in the course PM (pdf).

Schedule for the principal lecture day (11 Feb)

Lecture Part 1
Uzbek time : 14.30 – 15.00
Lecture part 1

Lecture Part 2
Uzbek time: 15.00 – 15.10
Presentation of 2 discussion questions and break

Lecture Part 3
Uzbek time: 15.10 – 15.30
Discussion of questions

Lecture Part 4
Uzbek time: 15.30 – 16.00
Lecture part 2

Lecture Part 5
Uzbek time: 16.00 – 17.00
Break

Lecture Part 6
Uzbek time: 17.00 – 18.00
Student presentations with student opposition

Lecture 1
11 Feb
Intro Sustainable Development by Lars Rydén

Lecture 2
18 Feb
Resource Flows by Björn Frostell

Lecture 3
25 Feb
Energy by Mikael Höök & Laziz Saribaev

Lecture 4
4 March
Climate Change by Lars Rydén & Viktor Novikov (TBC)

Lecture 5
11 March
Ecosystems, land use, agriculture, forestry, biodiversity by Lars Rydén & Farhod Akhrorov

Lecture 6
18 March
Quantification of sustainability, basic approaches by Björn Frostell

Lecture 7
25 March
Global water policies – Water and water cooperation in Central Asia by Bo Libert

Lecture 8
1 April
Water use and management – Agriculture and Sanitation by Björn Vinnerås & Husniddin Pardaev

Lecture 9
8 April
The Aral Sea by Yusup Kamalov & Vadim Solokov

Lecture 10
15 April
Urbanization: The Sustainable City by Lars Rydén & Rustam Eshniyazov, Lovisa Lingfors

Lecture 11
22 April
A culture of mobility; Means of mobility; Energy of mobility by Björn Frostell & Alijon Oripov

Lecture 12
29 April
Economics and economy of sustainable development by Lars Rydén

Lecture 13
6 May
Environmental decision making from the individual to the global level by Björn Frostell

Lecture 14
13 May
Transition to a Sustainable Society, Policies and practices by Lars Rydén & Rakhmatulla Nurimbetov

Lecture 15
20 May
Final comments & Discussion and conclusion by Lars Rydén and all teachers and students

A university course by the Swedish Aral Sea Society in cooperation with Uzbekistan universities.