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Course information

  • Introduction to the course
  • General info
  • Learning goals
  • Grading
  • Course environment
  • Communicating with Slack
  • License and terms of usage
  • Attribution

Week 1

  • Lesson overview
  • What is Sustainability?
  • What is Spatial Data Science?
  • Tutorial 1.1 - Meet Git
  • Tutorial 1.2 - Spatial analysis with Python
  • Recommended readings
  • Exercise 1

Week 2

  • Lesson overview
  • Human wellbeing and capabilities
  • Network analytics and spatial accessibility modelling
  • Tutorial 2.1 - Shortest path analysis
  • Tutorial 2.2. Accessibility analysis: Calculating travel time matrices in Python
  • Recommended readings
  • Exercise 2

Week 3

  • Lesson overview
  • Sustainable Cities and Mobilities
  • Mobility analytics
  • Tutorial 3 - Trajectory data mining in Python
  • Recommended readings
  • Exercise 3

Week 4

  • Lesson overview
  • Economic inequalities and growth
  • Spatial econometrics
  • Tutorial 4 - Spatial Regression in Python
  • Recommended readings
  • Exercise 4

Week 5

  • Lesson overview
  • Agent-based simulation with spatial data
  • SDS in Water resource management
  • Flood forecasting
  • Recommended readings

Final Assignment

  • Instructions
  • Repository
  • Suggest edit
  • .rst

Recommended readings

Recommended readings#

  • Banister, D. (2018). Inequality in Transport (open access). Alexandrine Press, 272 p.

  • Fanning, A. et al. (2022). The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations. Nature Sustainability 5: 1, 26-36.

  • Levinson, D. & Wu, H. (2020). Towards a general theory of access. Journal of Transport and Land Use 13: 1, 129-158.

  • Paez, A., Higgins, C. & Vivona, S. (2019). Demand and level of service inflation in Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods (open access). PLoS One 14, e0218773.

  • Pereira, R., Schwanen, T. & Banister, D. (2017). Distributive justice and equity in transportation. Transport Reviews 37, 170–191.

  • Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Chelsea Green Publishing, 320 p.

  • Raworth, K. (2017). A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: humanity’s compass in the 21st century The Lancet Planetary Health 1: 2, 48-49.

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By Henrikki Tenkanen

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