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Urban Water Governance

Introduces participants to the challenges and opportunities of the future urban world and specifically what this implies for the ecological and social sustainability of urban waters, with an emphasis on the politics of these flows. 

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2017 (Cancelled)
Course in 2017 is cancelled

the course in 2017 has been cancelled

For whom?

Young mid-career professionals who are 1) working at middle and upper level in an organization in the water sector, 2) employed in policy making institutions in the water sector, 3) working for organizations engaged in management of water resources and water services. 

Dates, Fee, ECTS

Start: 03 July 2017
End: 21 July 2017
Deadline IHE application: 03 June 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Course is cancelled

Learning objectives

Upon completion, the participant should be able to:

  1. Define key terms: the "urban", "urban waters", "governance", according to assigned readings, learning activities, and class lectures;
  2. Identify implications of the above definitions for urban water governance (how to define and diagnose; identify stakeholders);
  3. Analyze the ways in which urban waters channel the politics of the city in presented case studies.

The aim of this short course is to introduce participants to the challenges and opportunities of the future urban world. Specifically, we explore what this implies for the ecological and social sustainability of urban waters: access, allocation, quality, and security of piped and non-piped supply such as wastewaters, surface/groundwater, bottled waters, flood waters/water related disasters.

The course places specific emphasis on the politics of these flows, and therefore understands UWG as a deeply political process rather than a technocratic/managerial activity. To this end, the course aims to provide participants with analytical skills to diagnose and explain, rather than operational toolkits or blueprints with which to intervene and manage.

Course Content

The course content reflects UNESCO-IHE's commitment to having participants engaging with the real-life problems of water in urban contexts, but seeks to offer new perspectives and concepts with which to understand the issues and problems. Specifically, we look at how to understand the cities of the global South, how to understand urbanization as a process occurring at a global scale, and then the implications of these understandings for the politics of water (access, allocation, equity). By the end of the course, students will understand the current urban context in various regions of the Global South, will be familiar with existing debates in urban development and the implications for urban waters, and will be able to analyze the politics of urban water flows. Class lectures and activities spend time identifying and discussing the politics of the urban, and the ways in which urban waters are enrolled in the production of uneven urban environments.

The course builds on key concepts introduced in the Water Governance module and the Institutional Analysis module of the Water Management MSc Programme. Students who have not taken these previous modules will be expected to do additional reading to familiarize themselves with necessary terms and concepts. The course is run on the style of a seminar class. Students will be required to do the majority of work (reading, assignments) outside of class. Class time will then be used to discuss and debate what students have learned through self-study.