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Lecture: Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy II: Water Governance - Details
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Course name Lecture: Natural Resources, Agricultural and Environmental Policy II: Water Governance
Subtitle Water Governance
Course number AGE.06090
Semester WS 2018/19
Current number of participants 7
Home institute Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Umweltpolitik
Courses type Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 17.10.2018 12:45 - 16:00
SWS 4

Topics

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)

Rooms and times

Seminarraum 1.09 [VDP 3] (AEW)
Wednesday: 12:45 - 16:00, weekly (5x)
Wednesday, 27.03.2019 11:00 - 13:00
No room preference
Wednesday: 12:45 - 16:00, weekly

Module assignments

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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)