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Water and Environmental Law

The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to theoretical and practical aspects of water and environmental resources management from a legal and policy perspective. 

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2017

For whom?

This short course is for top and mid-level decision makers, technical experts and professional trainers and researchers in relevant technical and managerial fields of work in both the public and private sector. 

Dates, Fee, ECTS

Start: 13 February 2017
End: 03 March 2017
Deadline IHE application: 13 January 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850

Learning objectives

Upon completion, the participant should be able to:

  1. demonstrate and apply knowledge in the fields of national and international water and environmental law and to perceive and discuss the main concepts, theories, discourses
  2. apply, compose and recreate legal instruments to operationalize integrated water resources management (water quantity and water quality)
  3. demonstrate and apply knowledge in the field of contract management for use in water projects.
  4. analyze and prepare a contract for a specific situation
  5. describe and apply concepts of water allocation, water rights and international benefit sharing
  6. discuss and explain complexity of decision making for water allocation in national and international rivers.

Course content

The national component plays an important part in the international part of this short course, and the international component is interwoven into the national dimension. The course uses interactive lectures, practices in stakeholder interviews and analysis, negotiation exercises, role-plays, workshops, case studies, the internet and audio-visual means.

Subjects at the international level

  • The UN institutional framework relevant to water and environmental law and management;
  • Theoretical concepts of multi-level governance, good governance, the rule of law, participatory approaches and international relations theories;
  • General principles of international law, and international water and environmental law;
  • Elaboration and analysis of the UN Law on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses and international treaties on climate change, desertification, biodiversity, depletion of the ozone layer and forestry;
  • Some regional water and environmental agreements;
  • Major water and environmental disputes and cases;
  • Negotiation theory;
  • Dispute resolution.

Subjects at the national level

  • National water and environmental law systems,
  • Institutional and management arrangements;
  • Decentralization, decision-making and communication;
  • Contract management.