AGRIBUS 3064 - Water Security & Governance UG

This elective course examines the historical, cultural and socio-political contexts of water governance and the range of administrative arrangements for developing, allocating, managing and protecting water resources locally and globally. In that respect it will cover off on water governance issues (rules of the game), institutions involved in its management (players of the game) and the increasingly complex range of issues involved in allocating and using water resources (game-changing issues such as climate change). Course topics include: introduction to international water governance and security issues; water and environmental asset valuation methods; the cross-jurisdictional, multi-level and multi-institutional processes for water governance; the intersecting and interrelated interests around water resource use and frameworks for stakeholder consultation; examination of frameworks and economic instruments for water resource management such as allocation and trade; and exploring recent remediation programs to counter land and water degradation.