Content: Lectures, Debate, Computer Model, ... Integrated Water Resources
Management with regard to: floods, droughts, ... water economy) →within IWRM.
Integrated Water Resources Management: International Aspects (VVRF01) Linus Zhang, Assoc. Prof. Department of Water Resources Engineering Lund University, Sweden
Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Tel: +46 462224344 Fax: +46 462224435, office 5126 V-building Email:
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Integrated Water Resources Management: International Aspects Quick Introduction: Course code: VVRF01 Target group: WaterLU, W and V, Exchange Credits: 7.5 hp (=ECTS) Content: Lectures, Debate, Computer Model, Project Work Final Grade: (1) Written examination; (2) Project assignment report; (3) Debate and the oral presentation (4) Report on WEAP model Course webpage: Complementary operational information and selected documents will be published at the course web site: http://www.tvrl.lth.se/utbildning/courses/vvrf01/
Knowledge and understanding: •Gain deep knowledge and good insight on the meaning of Integrated Water Resources Management in a global sense. •Have good comprehension of technical and non-technical issues on Integrated Water Resources Management. •Be well familiar with most common environmental and water problems in both developed and developing countries. Skills and abilities: •Be able to present a scientific project proposal, with emphasis on addressing water problems in international aspects. •Be able to apply the learned knowledge by providing proposals for solving practical water problems and by argumenting for their opinions in important issues regarding to IWRM. Judgement and approach: Show ability of critical and comprehensive thinking in evaluating various current as well as future international water problems.
Course content: Theoretical Review: Integrated Water Resources Management with regard to: floods, droughts, drinking water, sanitation and pollution. (International organizations, water related international aid, politics and administration related to water as well as water economy) within IWRM. Project Work/Case study: Project work/Case-study is a compulsory part of the course and should be carried out by student groups. This will require a considerable effort in both time and input from each student. It is required that the student group will work independently throughout the project work including: problem identification and definition, information searching, literature study, data analysis, material compiling and the final reporting. Debate Session: The debate will take the form of a role play. The main objective of the debate is to increase the student’s awareness of the conflicting interests of various groups involved in water issues. Computer model WEAP: WEAP excersize with real case and report.
Course Literature Part one: Malcolm Newson: Land, Water and Development: Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers. 3rd Edition. Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 9780415419468. (2009).
Part two: Integrated Water Resources Management Plans (Training Manual and Operational Guide) By Cap-net.org, CIDA and GWP/UNDP; freely available (PDF file will be on the course site)
Part three: Materials in form of scientific articles and reports and lecture notes and other handouts.
Project assignment: Groups of 2 to 4 students , with a specific topic. Each student within the group must work actively and contribute to the project work and report writing. a) Selected representative and interesting river basins, perform literature study, analyses, evaluation and assessment; b) Participant selected river basins, with good datasets for detailed analysis, perform basic analyses or data processing, and summarize the results;
Examination and Grades: Final grading for the course will be conducted according to LTH regulations. To obtain the final course grade, the following three parts are required: (1)Written examination; (2)Project assignment report; (3)Compulsory attendance for debate/discussion session and the final oral presentation as specified in the course schedule. (4)Computer model report. The final course grade (3, 4 or 5) will be based on the weighted sum of written examination (weight=0.5) and project assignment (weight= 0.5).
Lectures: Students are required to read the course literature independently. Lectures for the first part of the course are meant to be introductions and guidelines for the course literature, which functions as basic reference reading material. The written exam is based on the contents of the course literature. Further reading material will be delivered as handouts. For the second part, invited lecturers will give indepth analysis through case-examples on selected topics. Details will be provided separately before or during each lecture.
The Debate Session Background: The debate is seen as one part of the examination for the course. However, it is essential to get a less-intellectual feeling of the interests and motives of various stake-holders, in order to reach a true understanding of the complicated political, social, and economic patterns which influence the possibilities for good solutions to the problems. Purpose: The main objective of the debate is to increase the student’s awareness of the conflicting interests of various groups involved in water issues. Another objective is to increase the capacity of the students to understand and cope with persons/groups that express beliefs and wishes contrary to the student’s own ones. General format: The debate will take the form of a role play. Each student will be given a part to play, defined by the organisation/group to which the role character belongs to. How it will be done? The debate will be organised as a round-table meeting. Each student will be playing the part of an official representative of the government of a given country. More instruction will be given one week before the session
The Written examination Written examination is one part of the score giving examination for the course. Contents:
(1) The course book and handouts (also Lecture Notes). (2) IWRM Plans (Training Manual and Operational Guide)
The exam is a closed-book type, meaning no other auxiliary facilities are allowed during the exam (except Swedish/English dictionary). The Max. points from the exam is 50p, together with the Max. points 50p from the project assignment, the total Max. points are 100p. For final grades, condition: minimum points 25p (exam) and 25p (assignment).
Final Score: Following 4 blocks are required Written Examination (min. 25p)
Computer Model report
Compulsory attendance (Debate & Oral Present.)
Project Assignment Report (min. 25p)
60p-72p>Grade 3;
73p-86p>Grade 4;
87p-100p>Grade 5
