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Veranstaltungsname	Vorlesung: Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy II: Water Governance
Untertitel	Water Governance
Veranstaltungsnummer	AGE.06090
Semester	WS 2018/19
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	7
Heimat-Einrichtung	Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Umweltpolitik
Veranstaltungstyp	Vorlesung in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin	Mittwoch, 17.10.2018 12:45 - 16:00
SWS	4

Lehrende

Prof. Dr. Insa Theesfeld

Themen

Introduction - Water availability and share for agriculture, Key water issues - Irrigation systems, Property rights for water management, Governance systems: 1. Market approaches, Guest lecture: Ilkhom Soliev - Governing multipurpose use, Governance systems: 1. Pros and cons of irrigation water pricing, Governance systems: 2. Hierarchy and laws, Guest lecture: Ilkhom Soliev - Transboundary competition or collaboration, Governance systems: 3. Self-organisation, Water governance concepts, Water grabbing - Preparation of the exam, Water Game, Exam (12:45 - 14:45)

Räume und Zeiten

Seminarraum 1.09 [VDP 3] (AEW): Mittwoch: 12:45 - 16:00, wöchentlich (5x); Mittwoch, 27.03.2019 11:00 - 13:00
Keine Raumangabe: Mittwoch: 12:45 - 16:00, wöchentlich

Studienbereiche

Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

Objectives
You will gain knowledge on policy instruments, institutions and governance structures in the agricultural and environmental sector related to water.
You will understand the challenge and the need to integrate ecological systems with sociological systems, coupled with technical-infrastructure systems.
You will gain knowledge in social, cultural and institutional factors that affect water use.
You will have insights in economic and institutional economic methods to analyze water resource systems.
We provide you with basic knowledge of theoretical concepts explaining water governance.
You practice presentation techniques and teamwork.

Content:
• Development and evaluation of selected agricultural, environmental and water policies, e.g. EU-Water Framework Directive.
• Selected concepts, such as Virtual Water, Integrated Water Resource Management, Human Right to Water.
• Characteristics of the resource water and the resource system including infrastructure.
• The role of irrigation systems worldwide.
• Property rights regimes.
• Markets (pros and cons of water pricing, cross-subsidies).
• Contracts (non-consumptive spiritual use, transboundary conflicts and negotiations).
• Self-organization and collective action in the water sector.
• Current research topics, e.g. water grabbing.
• Water Game! (interactive role play prepared and conducted by students)