Course: Water in the Landscape (Voda v krajině)

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Course title Water in the Landscape (Voda v krajině)
Course code KZP/0WATE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 8
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
Course content
1. Water in landscape (introduction of the transboundary water management, selection of the joint working projects) 2. Water security debates (theory, water scarcity and water insecurity, nexus theories - IWRM and WEFN) 3. Actors (hydrocracy, multi-track water diplomacy, river basin organizations and RBOD) 4. Cooperation over shared water resources (good water governance, TFDD, approaches and un/intended consequences) 5. Conflict over shared water resources (water conflict paradox and TWINS, approaches and un/intended consequences) 6. Water citizen science (River Chiefs in China, Tai Baan science, popularization of water science, challenges) 7. Mekong River Commission and Xayaburi dam (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 8. Nile Basin Initiative and GERD (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 9. ICPDR and Danube Commission overlapping (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 10. ICJ and Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 11. ICIMOD at Brahmaputra water dialogue (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 12. ORASECOM at Orange-Senqu (history, assessment - achievements, challenges and solutions) 13. Summary, final evaluation of the group projects and discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • FRANCE, R.L., a kol. Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design. Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design, 2008.
  • HARTMANN, T. et al. Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land. Cham: Springer, 2019.
  • INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF BASIN ORGANIZATIONS (INBO). The Handbook for the participation of stakeholders and civil society in the basins of rivers, lakes and aquifers. Madrid: International Office for Water, 2018.
  • KITTIKHOUN, A., SCHMEIER, S. River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy. London: Routledge, 2021.
  • MAHLAKENG, M.K. Water Scarcity and Conflict in African River Basins. Oxon: Routledge, 2023.
  • MIRUMACHI, N. Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World. Oxon: Routledge, 2015.
  • MIRUMACHI, N. Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World. Oxon: Routledge, 2015.


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