AGRIBUS 7064 - Water Security and Governance

This course examines the governance, future security and sustainable management of water resources with a particular focus on agricultural production and increasing demands for water by other sectors (e.g. urban growth, environmental flows). Within the course, students will be exposed to topics such as: the historical, cultural and socio-political contexts of water governance; the range of legal, policy and administrative arrangements for developing, allocating, managing and protecting water resources; water and environmental asset valuation methods; raising awareness of the cross-jurisdictional, multi-level and multi-institutional processes involved; the intersecting and interrelated interests around water resource use and frameworks for stakeholder consultation; examination of frameworks and economic instruments for addressing increasingly complex water security issues such as allocation and trade; and recent remediation programs to counter land and water degradation.