Prerequisites: Water Resources Systems

Learning objectives:

• Summarize the latest insights, context and concepts in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) that are under debate in international and regional forums.
• Explain the main arguments for an integrated approach in the field of water management
• Explain how to integrate bio-physical, infrastructural, and organizational/institutional systems.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. IWRM Principles - Concepts and Definitions
2. Multiple water uses 
3. Holistic management of supply and demand
4. Multiple social, environmental and economic perspectives of water as a good
5. Principles of participatory management and stakeholder engagement approaches  
6. Emerging Issues 
7. Field visits to a complex water resources system under water stress and water conflict issues 
8. Case-based simulations such as games
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Grigg, N S, 1996, Water Resources Management: Principles, Regulations and Cases, 1st Edition, McGraw-Hill Professional, 540p.
• Loucks, D. P., Van Beek, E., Stedinger, J. R., Dijkman, J. P., & Villars, M. T. (2005). Water resources systems planning and management: an introduction to methods, models and applications. Paris: UNESCO. 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Describe how the physical water resources system works
• Explain major natural functions and human uses of water resources systems including groundwater, wetlands, lakes/reservoirs and estuaries.
• Identify basic components to characterize the quantitative and qualitative nature of a water resources systems and able to analyze the hydrology of a water resources systems.
• Discuss the main issues of debate in an integrated water resources system underpinned by description of the biophysical, chemical and hydrological processes and their interactions, natural functions and human use of a water resources system.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Water Resources Systems

1.1.Introduction to module 

1.2.Introduction to water resources systems 

1.3.Water infrastructures

1.4.River systems 

1.5.Lakes, wetlands and estuaries 

2.Hydrology of basins affected by direct and indirect human impacts  Modeling approaches for assessing impacts of direct human interventions (land-use change, groundwater overdraft, etc.) on the hydrologic cycle 

2.2.Modeling approaches for assessing impacts of indirect human interventions

(climate change) on the hydrologic cycle 

2.3.Concepts of hydrology, hydrological cycle, water balance 

2.4.Interactions between surface and groundwater resources 

2.5.Reservoir water balance and operation 

3. Water Quality

3.1.Water Chemistry 

3.2.Aquatic ecosystems and water quality issues 

3.3.Laboratory session

Lecturing materials:

• D. P. Loucks, E. van Beek, J. R. Stedinger, J. P. M. Dijkman, and M. T. Villars. 2005. Water Resources Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models and Applications. UNESCO Publishing, Paris.  
• Loucks, D., and E. van Beek (2005), Water resources systems planning and management, UNESCO Publishing, Paris, France. 
• Mays, L. W. (2010). Water resources engineering. John Wiley & Sons. 

Prerequisites: Principles of Integrated Water Resources Management

Learning objectives:

• Identify and analyze actors and decision making processes related to water governance.
• Distinguish and explain main discourses and theories on water governance.
• Identify context, purpose, perspective and arguments of scientific papers on water governance.
• Compare and contrast different scientific papers, case studies and theories on dynamic and political nature of water governance.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. An introduction to water governance
2. Modes of governance
3. Institutional frameworks and their impacts on water governance systems;
4. Legal frameworks and their impacts on water governance systems;
5. Economic analysis tools and international best practices in financing water projects; 
6. International best practices in stakeholder involvement in water management;
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Lebel, L., Dore, J., Daniel, R., & Koma, Y. S. (2007). Democratizing water governance in the Mekong Region. Mekong Press.
• Sultana, F., & Loftus, A. (Eds.). (2013). The right to water: politics, governance and social struggles. Routledge.
• Finger, M., Tamiotti, L., & Allouche, J. (2006). The multi-governance of water: four case studies. SUNY Press.
• Pahl-Wostl, C. 2015. Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transformation. Berlin, Germany: Springer. 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Explain the basic concepts of microeconomic theory
• Describe the principles of utilizing economic instruments for managing water resources 
• Describe economic approaches to estimating economic value of water for various uses  
• Apply economic theory and method to analyze issues of water resource management
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to microeconomics 
2. Introductions to environmental economics 
3. Water markets 
4. Economic value of water for different uses 
5. Water rights and trading approaches 
6. Economics of urban water conservation 
7. Valuing environmental flows 
8. Water pricing 
9. Economics of climate change
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Mankiw, N.G. 2012. Principles of Economics, 6th edition. South-Western Gengage Learning, United Kingdom
• Tietenberg, T., Lewis, L. 2012. Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, 9th edition. Pearson, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, 2010. Water Valuation Guidance Document.

Prerequisites: Water Resources Systems

Learning objectives:

• Describe the fundamentals of national and international water laws and legislation.
• Explain and apply accepted and desired legal and institutional arrangements for applying principles of Integrated Water Resources and Environmental Management.
• Describe and apply legal instruments for the application of IWRM with the emphasis on functional decentralization, river basin organizations, planning and decision-making through water allocation criteria, systems of water rights, water (effluent) permit systems etc.
• Explain and appraise concepts of customary water rights.
• Discuss the processes of international water allocation.
  
  

Syllabus:

1.Principles and Strategies in Environmental Law 

2.Property Rights and Public Lands Management 

3.Water Law

3.1.Introduction to Water Law 

3.2.Legal Instruments for Water Conflict Resolution 

3.3.Water Quality and Legal Frameworks for Environmental Protection 

3.4.Safe Drinking Water Regulations  

4.Legal Arrangements

4.1.River Basin Organization (Intro)

4.2.Legal Instruments 

4.3.Water Rights and Allocation 

4.4.International Water Sharing 

4.5.Customary Water Rights

Lecturing materials:

• Getches, David H., Sandra B. Zellmer, and Adell L. Amos. 2015. Water Law in a Nutshell, 5th Edition. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing.
• Percival, R. V., Schroeder, C. H., Miller, A. S., & Leape, J. P. (2013). Environmental regulation: Law, science, and policy. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
• Burns, R. G., Lynch, M. J., & Stretesky, P. (2008). Environmental law, crime, and justice (p. 103). LFB Scholarly Pub.
• Lazarus, R. J. (2008). The making of environmental law. University of Chicago Press.

Prerequisites: Principles of Integrated Water Resources Management 

Learning objectives:

• Identify and analyze the relationships between urban water structures and processes, and urban water governance;
• Identify the relationships between the urban hydrological cycle, and socio-political processes (the hydro-social cycle).
• Distinguish and explain the emergence of discourses and theoretical frameworks applied to urban water governance (hydro-social cycle, adaptive governance; multi-level governance), and their understanding of equity and environmental sustainability.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Urban water systems
2. Introduction to sustainable urban water management 
3. Urban governance & governance of urban waters
4. Leadership in water governance  
5. Hydro-social cycles 
6. Connecting the social & technical sub-systems 
7. Urban water resilience 
8. Rural/urban interface: connecting water resources and urban water(s) services
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Bakker, K. (2010). Privatizing water: governance failure and the world's urban water crisis. Cornell University Press.
• Sultana, F., & Loftus, A. (Eds.). (2013).The right to water: politics, governance and social struggles. Routledge.
• Rydin, Y. (2012). Governing for sustainable urban development. Earth scan. 

Prerequisites: Principles of Integrated Water Resources Management 

Learning objectives:

• Discuss and analyze, from a conflict and cooperation perspective, cases of water sharing and use among different actors at different levels and from different sectors. 
• Assess the impact of human activities on water systems and the repercussion on water conflict and cooperation.
• Explain, discuss and analyze the basic concepts of conflicts related to water and of conflict management.
• Identify, explain and analyze the elements of a negotiation process applied to the management of a water conflict.
• Prepare, organize, and engage in negotiation processes related to share water resources with different stakeholders.
• Apply a set of skills and tools needed for water conflict management 

Syllabus:

1. Game Theory and its applications in water conflict resolution 
2. Alternative dispute resolution approaches 
3. International Negotiation Processes 
4. Negotiation strategies and confidence-building measures 
5. Cases of transboundary water conflicts or cooperation
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Shamir, Y. (2003). Alternative Dispute Resolution Approaches and their Application.Paris: UNESCO-IHP. Available at:http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/pubs/disciplinary_studies.shtml
• Wolf, A.T., Yoffe, S.B., & Giordano, M. (2003), International Waters: Indicators for Identifying Basins at Risk. Technical Documents in Hydrology, PCCP Series, No. 20.Paris: UNESCO-IHP. Available at:http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/pubs/summaries/ds_basins_risk.shtml
• Lewicki R.J. et al (2006) Chapter 3, Strategy and Tactics of Integrative Negotiation In: Lewicki R.J. et al, Negotiation, 5thedition, p. 71-101.
• Workbook of International Negotiation.  Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague 2013
• Trondalen, J.M. (2008). The Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers – Solutions for Turkey, Syria and Iraq in managing water resources in Water and Peace for the People – Possible solutions to water disputes in the Middle East, Water and Conflict Resolution Series – Paris: UNESCO Publishing, pp 157-210.
• Combes, R., ter Horst, R.H., Kluijtmans, P., Millet, E., Meerts, P., Patole, M., Smidt, E., van der Zaag, P. (2010) The Calypso River and Aquifer Case. Role play on negotiating the use of a transboundary water system. 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Describe different types of water resources data, generated from ground and remote sensing measurements
• Apply diverse methods of data processing and data validation for water resources assessment
• Quantify different components of the water resources spectrum (rainfall, river flow, groundwater), an assess availability and access at different scales.
• Describe and apply different methods of water quality monitoring and assessment.
• Analyze and quantify multiples uses of water for: agriculture, hydropower, domestic, environment and other uses.
• Apply water accounting techniques as a quick method for assessing water resources, water use, and water productivity in a river basin context.
  
  

Syllabus:

1.Water Cycles 

1.1.Global and Regional Hydrological Cycle and Water Balance

1.2.Surface/Subsurface Hydrological Processes in a Basin

2.Water Resources Assessment

2.1.Water resources data 

2.2.Surface water resources assessment 

2.3.Groundwater resources assessment 

2.4.Water quality assessment 

2.5.Water quality indicators for flow measurements 

2.6.Water resources assessment in un-gauged basins 

3.Water use estimation 

4.Water accounting 

4.1.Approaches 

4.2.GIS/RS applications in water resources assessment 

4.3.Processing of spatial data (Land use, precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff)

4.4.Computation of catchment water balance 

4.5.Water accounting at different scales 

Lecturing materials:

• Guide to Hydrological Practices: Volume I - Hydrology “From Measurement to Hydrological Information, WMO No 168, 2008.
• Water Resources Assessment Hand Book for review of national capabilities, 1997(WMO, UNESCO)
• Arnell, N. W. (1996). Global warming, river flows and water resources. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Recognize different (Public-Private Partnership) PPP options and principles governing PPPs.
• Estimate the suitability of partnership options, based on lessons learned from past contracts.
• Determine whether the prerequisite enabling environment of a chosen PPP option is present.
• Evaluate the pitfalls in a PPP implementation process, including the procurement cycle.
  
  

Syllabus:

1.Introduction

1.1.Introduction to the course 

1.2.Introduction to PPPs 

1.3.Case study presentations 

2.Principles of PPPs

2.1.PPP options 

2.2.PPP environment 

2.3.PPP economics 

3.PPP in practice in urban environments 

3.1.Current situation and actors 

3.2.Contracts 

3.3.Risks and limitations 

3.4.Success factors of PPPs 

3.5.Case study exercises 

3.6.Real life examples 

4.Issues regarding PPPs 

4.1.Best practices 

4.2.Controversies in the urban and rural water sectors 

4.3.Pro-poor approaches 

4.4.Trends in the water sector 

5.Fieldtrip

Lecturing materials:

• Mandri-Perrott, C., & Stiggers, D. (2013). Public Private Partnerships in the Water Sector. IWA Publishing.
• Marin, P. (2009). Public-Private Partnerships: A review of experiences in developing countries. PPIAF & the World Bank. 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Describe different water pollutant groups and their risks and fates
• Describe and apply different criteria for successful monitoring of lakes, rivers and groundwater
• Describe and apply a number of water quality models as a tool in water management  Design sustainable water quality monitoring programs for river and lake basins
  
  

Syllabus:

1.Water Quality and Monitoring

1.1.Introduction on Water quality 

1.2.Water quality monitoring and assessment 

1.3.Groundwater monitoring 

1.4.Case studies of water quality monitoring 

2.Data analysis and presentation 

3.Aquatic Ecotoxicology 

3.1.Principles of Aquatic Ecotoxicology 

3.2.Environmental fate of micro pollutants 

3.3.Monitoring, modelling and risk assessment 

4.Water quality modelling 

4.1.Introduction to available softwares 

5.Model calibration and validation processes 

6.Fieldtrips

Lecturing materials:

• World Health Organization. (2001). Water quality: Guidelines, standards, and health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease. L. Fewtrell, & J. Bartram (Eds.). IWA publishing.
• Zweig, R. D., Morton, J. D., & Stewart, M. M. (1999). Source water quality for aquaculture: a guide for assessment.
• Fitzpatrick, F. A., Waite, I. R., DArconte, P. J., Meador, M. R., Maupin, M. A., & Gurtz, M. E. (1998). Revised methods for characterizing stream habitat in the National Water-Quality Assessment Program. US Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 98, 4052.

Prerequisites: None 

Learning objectives:

Describe the basic chemical and biological processes and their engineering in water and wastewater treatment;

Evaluate different approaches to wastewater treatment and select the best option for local conditions

Syllabus:

1.Drinking water treatment

1.1.Water quality standards, and regulations; 

1.2.Mixing and flocculation; 

1.3.Softening and ion exchange; 

1.4.Oxidation and adsorption; 

1.5. Membrane processes.

2.Wastewater treatment

2.1.Preliminary and primary processes; 

2.2.Kinetic theory; 

2.3.Activated sludge systems; 

2.4.Tertiary treatment; 

2.5.Sludge disposal practice & policy.

3. Fieldtrips

Lecturing materials:

• Binnie C., Kimber M. and Smethhurst, G., Basic water treatment, Thomas Telford Publishing, 2002.
• Hendricks D., Fundamentals of Water Treatment Unit Processes, CRC Press / IWA Publishing, 2011.
• Gray, N.F., 2004. Biology of Wastewater Treatment. Oxford University Press, London.
• Trivedy, R.K., 1998. Advances in Wastewater Treatment Technologies. Global Science, Aligarh 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Explain the concept and importance of sustainable development into environmental planning and management
• Apply and discuss economic valuation methods and policy instruments for environmental policy
• Explain principles, processes and methods of environmental assessment (EIA-SEA) and be able to apply them in water related plans, programs and projects
• Apply basic theories behind policy enforcement, monitoring and evaluation to master effective environmental policies
• Use environmental information systems to support planning and management
  
  

Syllabus:

1.Sustainable Development Concepts and Challenges 

2.Environmental Planning 

3.Environmental Economics 

4.Environmental Assessment 

4.1.Introduction to EIA

4.2.Introduction to SEA

5.Environmental Policy Enforcement 

6.Fieldtrips

Lecturing materials:

• Faludi, A. (2013). A decision-centered view of environmental planning (Vol. 38). Elsevier.
• Randolph, J. (2004). Environmental land use planning and management. Island Press.
• Kapp, K. W. (1974). Environmental policies and development planning in contemporary China and other essays. Mouton. 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• To understand that natural resources exploitation should take into account the protection of various environmental ecosystems.
• Make distinctions between various approaches of management of natural and other resources using only economic concepts and those taking into account environmental ecosystems.
• To understand and asses major issues related to ecosystem management and the use of natural resources.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Ecosystem Based Management against economic management of natural resources 
2. Ecosystem goods and services
3. Basics of material flow analysis 
4. Global, regional and local changes in aquatic ecosystems
5. Coastal zone management: Basic concepts and challenges 
6. Economic and technology aspects of environmental management systems
7. Social aspects of environmental change
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Vermaat J. et al., Managing European Coasts, Springer, 2005.
• Bhatti, J.S. et al., Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems, CRC Press, 2005 

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. 
• Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from real water systems.
  
  

Syllabus:

Nash Equilibrium: the Original and the Modern Proof

1. The Equilibrium Refinement and Selection Problem
2. Rationalizability and Common Knowledge
3. Evolutionary Game Theory: Introduction
4. Extensive Games of Imperfect and Incomplete Information
5. Mechanism Design
6. Repeated Games
7. Games with Communication
8. Coalitional Games
9. Applications in Water Resources Management
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Madani, K., (2010), Game Theory and Water Resources, Journal of Hydrology, 381, 225–238. 
• Fang, L., Hipel, K.W., Kilgour, D.M., 1993. Interactive Decision Making: The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution. Wiley, New York, USA.
• Fraser, N.M., Hipel, K.W., 1984. Conflict Analysis: Models and Resolutions. NorthHolland, Amsterdam, New York, USA. 

Prerequisites: None 

Learning objectives:

• Understanding the basis for predictions of the future of water management from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. 
• Knowledge of the hypotheses and evidence on drivers that have contributed to the emergence of writings on water conflict and cooperation over the recent historical period. 
• Evaluation of various explanations for conflict and cooperation pertaining to water resources.
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Water and resource conflict theories
2. Systematic ways of thinking about water conflict and cooperation
3. Water scarcity: definitions and dimensions of depletion
4. Water infrastructure, development and well-being
5. Economic perspectives
6. International legal frameworks for dealing with water and institutional perspectives 
7. Water competition
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Pohl B., Carius A., Conca K., Dabelko G.D., Kramer A., Michel D., Schmeier S., Swain A. and Wolf A. (2014). The Rise of Hydro-Diplomacy. Strengthening foreign policy for transboundary waters, Adelphi, Berlin.
• UN-Water Thematic Paper (2008). Transboundary Waters: Sharing Benefits, Sharing Responsibilities.
• Wolf A. (2010). Sharing Water, Sharing Benefits: working towards effective transboundary water resources management, UNESCO’s International Hydrology Programme, Division of Water Sciences, Paris.  

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• At the completion of the course the students should be able to gain insight on local and global perceptions and approaches to participatory water and environmental resource management 
• Learn from successes and failures in the context of both rural and urban communities of water and environmental management
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Fundamentals of sociology and participatory approach
2. Understanding the nexus effect of water, environment and society
3. Understanding user participation of environmental water resources
4. Definition the relationship of integrated water resources management and environmental protection
5. Organizational design and improving agency relations
6. Policy considerations
7. Role of stakeholders in water and environmental resources
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Michael C.M., Putting people first, Sociology variables in Rural Development, Oxford University press, London 1985. 
• Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa Enrico Weber Andrea Castelletti, Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management – Theory, Elsevier Science, 582p, 2007.  

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Asset Allocation –How do investors decide on the level of capital to allocate to individual asset classes?
• Implementation issues -How to implement the asset allocation?
• Performance Measurement –How do investors determine how well money managers have performed?
   

Syllabus:

1. Asset Management & Strategic Planning Overview
2. The Asset Manager’s Role
3. Ownership Structures & Identifying Investment Partners
4. The Decision to Acquire Assets
5. Retaining Property Management & Leasing Services
6. Pro-forma Preparation, Monitoring Performance & Reporting 
7. Strategic Planning & the Decision to Invest in Capital Improvements
8. Samples of Capital Investment in Water Management and Services Projects
9. The Decision to Dispose of an Asset
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• International Case Studies in Asset Management, edited by Chris Lloyd, published by ICE Publishing, 2012.
• Asset management decision-making: THE SALVO PROCESS, edited by John Woodhouse published by the Woodhouse Partnership, 2014.

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives: 

• To be able to describe the decision-making processes with regard to environmental issues in the context of sustainable development
• To be able to apply the environmental assessment cycle approach in identifying and resolving environmental problems
• To be able to analyze the evaluation criteria used in environmental decision-making
• To be able to evaluate the suitability of different strategies for addressing environmental problems
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to sustainability assessment. 
2. The environmental assessment cycle
3. Introduction to assessment methodologies including cost-benefit analyses and environmental quality criteria. 
4. Examples related to water and energy
   
   

Lecturing materials: 

• Noble, Bram (2014). Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: a Guide to Principles and Practice, 3 Rd Edition. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
• Gibson, Robert B. (2006). Sustainability assessment: basic components of a practical approach. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 24(3), 170-182.

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Identify and understand basic concepts of the organization and the challenges organizations meet in relation to their environment.
• Define and explain basic concepts in institutional organization theory.
• Make a situational analysis of an organization and identify the surrounding demands that the organization has to relate to and how they are handled by the organization, and present this in a reflective and persuasive way, both orally and in writing.
• The overall aim is for students to acquire an active and reflective approach and to gain a deeper understanding of the broader context in which an organization operates.
   

Syllabus:

1. Analyze and Understand Institutional Incentives and Outcomes
2. An Introduction to the Study of Institutions, Complex Systems, and Collective Action Dilemmas
3. Theories and Models of Human Behavior
4. Structural Variables that Affect Action Situations
5. Games and Institutional Analysis
6. Studying Collective Action in the Field
7. Polycentricity
8. Learning from Experiments
9. Linked Social-Ecological Systems
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Aligica, Paul, and Peter J. Boettke. 2009. “Introduction.” In Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development. The Bloomington School, 1-4. New York: Routledge
• Ostrom, Elinor. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• Identify and describe municipal water and wastewater systems and their subcomponents
• Describe the processes for analysis and planning of urban water systems, water distribution networks and urban drainage and wastewater collections system. 
• Describe differences in quality between different waters. 
• Describe different treatment units at water and wastewater treatment plants and be able to explain their functions.
   

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to the potable water and wastewater collection and treatment systems.   Water distribution network design and operation    Purification processes. 
2. Wastewater treatment processes. 
3. Water quality issues in urban water systems. 
4. Technologies for building, rehabilitation and maintenance of pipe system for water and wastewater
5. Sustainability of urban water systems.
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Karamouz, M., Ali Moridi, S. Nazif (2010), Urban Water Engineering and Management, CRC Press.

Prerequisites : None

Learning objectives:

• Understanding of climate change impacts and adaptation at global, national and local scales, with a focus on water systems. 
• Familiarity with climate prediction models and applications of their outputs in predicting climate change impacts on water resources and systems 
• Familiarity with adaptation strategies and approaches 
• Ability to evaluate adaptation approaches at scales ranging from global to local.
   

Syllabus:

1. The Earth’s Climate System
2. Introduction to Climate Change
3. Projections of Future Climate
4. Global, Regional and National Climate Change Impacts
5. Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources 
6. Impacts Assessment and National Adaptation Strategy
7. Criteria for Assessing and Comparing Adaptation Strategies 
8. Economic Issues in Climate Change Adaptation 
9. Climate Change Mitigation
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Pittock A.B. (2009) Climate Change: the science, impacts and solutions. Earthscan.
• IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2013 and 2014 (AR5) available at www.ipcc.ch.  

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• To learning how public utilities manage water supply and environmental services; 
• What is required to meet future challenges in water utilities 
• To understand ethical and financial issues of water utility management 

Syllabus:

1. Sustainability of Water Utilities 
2. Governance of Water Utilities 
3. Public vs Private Water Utilities 
4. Financial Issues 
5. Utility Business Models
6. Annual and long term budgets
7. Aging Infrastructure
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• R. Dolan, T. Rose, R. Baker, and M. Barnes, 2003, Managing the Water and Wastewater Utility, Water Environment Federation.  

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• To familiarize students with the “demand side” of environmental economics. 
• To familiarize students with the main techniques for estimating the nonmarket values associated with environmental and other public goods. 
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Environmental Accounting 
2. Welfare Economics 
3. Preference Methods 
4. Pricing Methods 
5. Valuing Risk Reduction 
6. Environmental Program Evaluation
     

Lecturing materials:

• Champ, P.A., K.J. Boyle, and T.C. Brown (eds.). 2003. A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 
• Freeman III, A.M. 2003. The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values:Theory and Methods, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press. 
• Haab, T.C. and K.E. McConnell. 2002. Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• To teach students how to evaluate planning through the lens of developing larger scale infrastructure that fosters long-term environmental sustainability and anticipates extreme climate events brought on by our changing climate. 
• To teach student how to plan sustainable and resilient infrastructure development 
• To teach students how to evaluate effectiveness of infrastructure in reducing long-term capital and operational costs, while also creating a healthy and enriching community.
   

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to sustainable and resilient approach to infrastructure and planning
2. Policy perspective
3. Resiliency & Disaster Preparedness
4. Urban Green/ Building Resiliency 
5. Water Infrastructure  o Integrated resource planning from conventional wastewater treatment plants to grey and blackwater systems 
6. Planning for rising extreme climate events and rising sea levels
7. Possible Site Visit
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Champ, P.A., K.J. Boyle, and T.C. Brown (eds.). 2003. A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 
• Freeman III, A.M. 2003. The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values:Theory and Methods, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press. 
• Haab, T.C. and K.E. McConnell. 2002. Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Prerequisites: Water Quality Assessment and Modeling 

Learning objectives:

Gain an understanding of the general concepts and benefits of Low Impact Development (LID), including insight into the economic and environmental benefits of the approach.

• Find out how communities are successfully implementing LID
• Obtain new perspectives on stormwater management and design
• Receive information on state-of-the-art research in modeling, monitoring, and management approaches
• Gain exposure to new LID modeling techniques and design manuals

Syllabus:

• Introduction/Overview of LID
• LID Hydrology
• LID Monitoring
• Bioretention / Raingardens
• Permeable Pavements
• Water Harvesting
• LID Planning and Ordinances
• LID Feasibility/Desirability Factors
• Local Site Investigation
• Green Roofs
• Land Development Case Study
• Examples of LID and BMPs
  
  

Lecturing materials:

• Davis, A.P. and McCuen, R.H. Stormwater Management for Smart Growth. Springer. 2005. ISBN 978-0-387-26048-8.
• Shaver, E., Horner, R., Skupien, J., May, C., and Ridley, G. (2007). Fundamentals of Urban Runoff Management: Technical and Institutional Issues. 2nd Ed. By Rehnby N. Published by The North American Lake Management Society (NALMS).
• Freeman III, A.M. 2003. The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values:Theory and Methods, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press. 
• Haab, T.C. and K.E. McConnell. 2002. Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.  

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

• The course defines Value Analysis and Value Engineering 
• It familiarizes students with the steps required to implement a value analysis / value engineering program
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Value Engineering
2. Organization 
3. Value Engineering Job Plan
4. Analysis Function
5. Versatility of Value Engineering 
6. Value Engineering Techniques
   
   

Lecturing materials:

• Alphonse Dell’Isola, “Value Engineering: Practical Applications for Design, Construction, Maintenance & Operations”, R S Means Co., 1997.
• Richard Park, “Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention”, St. Lucie Press, 1999.
• Del L. Younker, “Value Engineering analysis and methodology”, Marcel Dekker Inc, New York, 2004.
• Miles, L.D., “Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering”, McGraw Hill second Edition, 1989.
• Khanna, O.P., “Industrial Engineering and Management”, Dhanpat Rai & Sons, 1993.
• Anil Kumar Mukhopadhyaya, “Value Engineering Mastermind: From concept to Value Engineering Certification”, SAGE Publications, 2003.  

Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least four modules of the program.

Learning objectives:

• Concisely define the intended research topic, state aims and objectives precisely, describe the research methodology, argue expected relevance and justification, and identify boundary conditions and self- or externally imposed limitations
• List available literature and replicate main arguments expounded in the literature on the specified research topic
• Demonstrate analytical problem-analysis skills and the ability to distil the strategic issues to be addressed in the research phase
• Plan, using the project management approach, the research process in weekly time-steps and indicate essential milestones, targets and indicators, required human, financial and other resources, deliverables and perceived threats and constraints at each stage of the research project
• Develop and formulate the research proposal in a clearly written, well-argued and convincing report, submitted within a set deadline
• Successfully present and defend individual work, cross-reference it to and critically evaluate it in light of contemporary thinking in a specific field of study
  
  

Syllabus:

1. Knowledge of research processes (reading, evaluating, and developing);
2. Literature reviews using print and online databases;
3. Formats for citations of print and electronic materials;
4. Key elements of a research proposal/report;
5. Quantitative vs qualitative research;
6. Sampling methods, measurement scales and instruments, and appropriate uses of each;
7. Experiment Design;

Lecturing materials:

• Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R., & Jackson, P. R. (2012). Management research. Sage.
• Thomas, A. B. (2004). Research skills for management studies. Psychology Press.