Online MOOC - Water Resources Management and Policy
Target Audience
This MOOC is designed for all those interested in the water sector. Prior training is not necessary to follow our program. The findings presented in this course can be easily reapplied to different contexts and to different scales of analysis.
Description
Water management today is faced with new challenges such as climate change or the effects of human activity. Public and private stakeholders who are active in this field must develop new ways to better manage the water cycle "as a whole".
The objective of this MOOC is to develop an understanding of the problems related to water management. Firstly, this course will define a resource and, more specifically, the resource of water. It will look at how water is used and the activities associated with it as well as any potential conflicts. The course will look at water management in detail through the analysis of the different types of rights and obligations associated with, for example, the development of a multi-sectorial regulation system or a watershed management approach.
Content
- From Resource Definition to the Ideals of Community Management
- The Rules of the Resource, their Uses and their Circumvention
- From Integrated Water Resource Management to the Water-Food-Energy and Ecosystem Nexus
- The Integrated Watershed Management (IWM)
- Water as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation
Permanently available course
Length - 5 Weeks
Effort - 1–3 hours per week
Price - FREE
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Institution - University of Geneva
Subject - Governance and Society
Language - English
Video Transcript - English
