- Students acquire basic knowledge of the principal theories and conceptual debates in social science, with regard to how people act and interact, that stand central to analyses of most contemporary issues related to water management.
- Students learn to critically reflect on, and take position in, the current debates on social aspects of water management.
- Students obtain insight in the social dilemmas of water management, through practical examples, and learn how to deal with multi-stakeholder settings.
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The course Social Aspects of Water Management is aimed at people that want to become water managers, i.e. supposed to be working for and with people. All water problems are people-and-water-problems. The course aims to deepen your insight in the way people decide and act, individually as well as collectively. The overall approach is the so-called Joint Planning Approach, to structure the collaboration with and between stakeholders. In the first part of the course we will focus on people in general, and explore some of the basics of the social sciences, i.e. how people act and interact. After that we will explain the principles of the joint planning approach. In the last part will discuss concrete water management projects, and focus on the way people have interacted in these water projects. The course is ‘literature-based’, which implies lots of pages for (diligent, active, critical) reading. The lectures will focus on helping you move smoothly throughout that literature. The last lecture will also focus on questions that you may have with regard to the exam.
A more detailed program of the lectures and sessions, including the assignments, will be provided in the course guide, one week before the start of the course.
Examination:
Closed-book exam (short + essay type of question)
Instructional modes
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