MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE FRAMEWORK

FOR THE COURSE

Planning for Water Resources Management

• Water resources
• Management
• Planning

Principles and practices: Past, present and future (e.g.)

• Comprehensive river basin development
• Sustainable water management
• Integrated water resources management

Systems perspective: Three sub-systems

• Bio-physical systems
• Socio-economic systems
• Governance systems

Integrating science and values: Civic science

Wicked problems

• Diverse values
• Complexity
• Uncertainty

Precautionary approaches

Resilience

Adaptive management

Democratization

• Participatory approaches
• Multi-stakeholder processes
• Governance systems

Disciplinarity

• Multi-disciplinarity
• Inter-disciplinarity
• Trans-disciplinarity

Skills

• Communication and interaction
• Group work
• Negotiation, facilitation and mediation
• Policy analysis and planning