MOOC "Water Resources Management and Policy"

04.01.2016 MOOC "Water Resources Management and Policy"

Water management nowadays faces new challenges, such as climate change or the influence of anthropogenic activities. Public or private actors in this field have to develop new competences to better manage the water cycle “at large”.

The objectives of this MOOC are therefore to understand the issues surrounding water resource governance. The course will firstly define what is a resource and more particularly water resources, their uses, their related activities, as well as possible conflicts. The course will then focus more in details on water governance, analysing the types of rules and rights at stake around water governance, such as the development of a multi-sector regulation and a watershed based approach.

This MOOC on Water Resources Management and Policy allowes the participants (students, individuals interested in this topic, professionals, policy-makers, etc.) to have new competences to understand the political, institutional and regulatory issues of water governance.

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The course was financed by the University of Geneva and the Global Programme Water Initiatives of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This MOOC is supported by the Geneva Water Hub and the University of Geneva along with the MOOC in « Ecosystem Services: a Method for Sustainable Development » and the one in « International Water Law ».