The 2013 short course is now closed for applications. Details of the 2014 course will be available soon but in the meantime please email using the links below to register your interest.

Water Security for Policy Makers and Practitioners

A 1 week residential course

Dates

10-14 June 2013

Places

20

Fee

£1500 (day rate £300). Includes all tuition and B&B accommodation

Language/Skills

The course is conducted in English. Full competence in English, written and spoken is an essential requirement.

Aim

Participants are expected to acquire a wide variety of tools and analytical frameworks from a variety of disciplines. While the focus is on policy, the extensive field and analytical competence of the lecturers ensures that participants benefit from grounded theory and experience. Participants can expect to leave the course with an ability to critically assess and address current water security policy, to gain an appreciation of the relations between water security and energy, climate, food, human or national security and to have extended their networks and resource base.

Target audience

The course is designed for entry and mid-level water and development policy-makers and professionals in government, donor, NGO or implementing agencies, environmental journalists, consultants and activists wishing to take their knowledge of water resources further.

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Location

International Development UEA, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

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Course content and structure

The University of East Anglia Water Security Centre and the London Water Research Group are pleased to combine once again their expertise to offer this contemporary, innovative short course. Bringing their respective strengths in water politics, climate change, agricultural water management and water allocation, this course will provide participants with an exceptional chance to acquire an understanding of a key issue globally: water security.

The course will provide policy-makers with comprehensive background knowledge relevant to the increasingly important policy challenge of ‘water security'. The course will explore how the multiple levels of water security – human, community, state, international and global – require broad but considered policy inputs. Emphasis will be placed on the inter-dependencies of different sectors (climate security, food security, energy security) that interact within a ‘web' of water security. The implications for national security and human security will be interpreted through an appreciation that water security for some can mean water insecurity for others. Emphasis will be place on the importance of shifting global climate and trade patterns.

the teaching will incorporate both natural and social sciences. Cutting edge practitioner and academic professionals will be used to deliver the 10 main topics. There will be lecture sessions focussing on theory and concepts as well as applied sessions where participants will be able to discuss and compare their experiences. Examples from Middle East, Africa and South Asia and from the participants' own areas of interest will be used throughout.

Topics that will be covered include:

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  • Water security fundamentals
  • Water resources security and water scarcity
  • Climate change security and water security
  • Food security, agriculture and water security
  • International law and water security
  • Transboundary water security
  • Energy security and water security
  • Global trade, global political economy and water
  • Development and water
  • Power and water security

 

Timetable  

 

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Monday 10 June

  • The Water Security Web

  • Global Trade and Water

  • Practising Water Security (1)

Tuesday 11 June

  • Water Resources Security and Water Security

  • Practising Water Security (2)

  • Water Provision, Sanitation and Water Security

Wednesday 12 June

  • Climate, Energy and Water Security

  • Climate, Energy and Water Security (cont.)

Thursday 13 June

  • Water Security and State Security

  • Corporate Water Stewardship and Water Security

Friday 14 June

  • Ecosystems and Water security

  • Water Security Case Study 

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Co-directors

Dr Naho Mirumachi specialises in the politics of water resources and has a particular interest in water allocation and river basin management issues in developing country contexts. She is a lecturer in teh Department of Geography, Kings College, University of London and visiting research fellow at the UEA Water Security Research Centre

Dr Mark Zeitoun has extensive practical and research experience as an engineer and social scientist in water supply, water negotiations and the links between water conflict and human, state and regional security.

Contributors to the 2013 course will include:

 


Apply for this course

You can click the link above to download an application form or email devco.train@uea.ac.uk

International Development UEA, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Skills Development and Training Office
International Development UEA
School of International Development
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

Tel: +44 1603 592340
Fax: +44 1603 591170

See also details of our MSc in Water Security and International Development.