Water Security

This course will deliver new knowledge on Water Security with a focus on extreme events. It brings together different perspectives from hydrology to political ecology to study extreme events and risks. Both quantitative and qualitative methods will be introduced. In the first block of the course we will focus on droughts and water security learning how to analyze and communicate droughts events. Flood risk assessment and management are the focus of the second block. During the last block, we will learn about the socio-political dimensions of water security including the uneven impacts of extreme events, issues of justice and equity. 

At the end of this course, students ...

• Learned about and critically reflected on the different definitions and approaches to Water Security
• Learned new methods of analyzing and presenting hydrological and socio-economic data related to floods and droughts
• Learned new methods of flood risk assessment 
• ...have acquired new skills on analyzing and communicating hydrological extreme events
• ... have acquired the skill to reflect critically on the relationship between science and policy.