Regional Water Planning
Code: 44475 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4317520 Territorial Studies and Planning | OT | 0 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- David Saurí Pujol
- Email:
- david.sauri@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
Prerequisites
English read, spoken and written
Objectives and Contextualisation
The module aims to present to students the current debates on the management of water and energy resources, emphasizing the territorial dimension. It is intended to collect case studies at different scales in different areas of the world.
The course will pay special attention to proven conventional management models based on centralized technologies, expert approaches and “bottom-up” management, with more alternative resources, decentralized technologies and participatory processes open to larger segments of society. Both models are compared in terms of governance and power relations. Another very important element of the course will be the analysis of the territorial conflicts that occur in the operation of these management models.
Through readings of selected materials, lectures and class presentations and discussions, students are expected to gain basic and robust knowledge on water and energy issues from environmental, social and territorial perspectives.
Competences
- Analyse and interpret environmental issues, applying your knowledge of environmental and ecological economics
- Analyse and interpret spatial and regional projections of social and economic imbalances in the processes of land-use planning and urban planning
- That students are able to integrate knowledge and handle complexity and formulate judgments based on information that was incomplete or limited, include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
- That the students can apply their knowledge and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
- Work in an international multidisciplinary context that promotes the values of social and gender equality
Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate social and economic imbalances in the different water management models in relation to urban planning and plans.
- Focus regional work on the basis of social and gender equity.
- Identify spatially and territorially water management models in different socio-economic situations.
- Know and understand new forms of governance for water and energy.
- Know and understand the main regional and socioeconomic conflicts linked to water management.
- Know the different models of water and energy management in urban planning.
- That students are able to integrate knowledge and handle complexity and formulate judgments based on information that was incomplete or limited, include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
- That the students can apply their knowledge and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
Content
Introduction: The Water-Energy nexus
From the hydrological cycle to the hydrosocial cycle
The large scale: reservoirs, transfers, desalination plants
The small scale: gray water and rainwater
The next resource ?: Regenerated Water
Water and cities: internal consumption
Virtual water and the water footprint
Water and disasters
Water: right or merchandise
Water and Tourism
Political politics of energy: soft and hard energy alternatives
Energy, planning and management
Primary energy sources: geopolitical approach
Multilevel governance and scale policies
Energy, social innovation and local development
Energy as a social need
Conflict in land uses
Energy policies in the European Union
Methodology
The teaching methodology includes two main typologies
a) Master classes. In some sessions there will be a guest speaker.
b) Seminars. A brief introduction to the specific topic taught by the instructor followed by the presentation of assigned readings by the students and a discussion group of the main points discussed in the readings. Students are expected to read the assigned materials; prepare and guide debates and take an active part in them.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 4, 3 |
| Master classes | 15 | 0.6 | 6, 7, 8 |
| Seminars | 50 | 2 | 1, 6, 5, 4, 2 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Assigned readings | 21 | 0.84 | 6, 5, 7, 8 |
| Tutorials | 10 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study | 25 | 1 | 6, 7, 8 |
Assessment
2 works: One at the end of the water part and the other at the end of the energy part
Class presentations of the assigned readings
Participation in the debates of the seminars
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 5, 4, 3 |
| Oral presentation | 20% | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 6, 5, 3, 7, 8 |
| Work I (Water) | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 6, 5, 4, 2, 7, 8 |
| Work II (Energy) | 30% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 6, 5, 4, 2, 7, 8 |
Bibliography
At the beginning of the course, a list will be distributed with the bibliography to be read
Bakker K. 2010 Privatizing Water. Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis. Ithaca, NY:
Cornell Univ. Press
Baumann DD, Boland JJ, Hanemann WM. 1998. Urban Water Demand Management and Planning. New
York: MacGraw Hill
Boelens, R., Perreault, T. and Vos, J. (eds) (2018). Water Justice. Cambridge: Cambride University Press.
Buzar S, Ogden PE, Hall R. 2005. Households matter: the quiet demography of urban
transformation.Progress in Human Geography 29(4):413-36
European Environment Agency. 2009. Water resources across Europe-confronting water scarcity and
drought. EEA Rep. No. 2/2009, EEA, Copenhagen
Fielding KS, Russell S, Spinks A, Mankad A. 2012. Determinants of household water conservation: the role
of demographic, infrastructure, behavior and psychosocial variables. Water Resources Research 48(10)
Gandy M 2014 The fabric of Space. Water, Modernity and the Urban Imagination. Cambridge MA: The MIT
Press
Inman D, Jeffrey P. 2006.A review of residential water conservation tool performance and influences on
implementation effectiveness. Urban Water Journal 3: 127-43.
Prud'homme A. 2011. The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century. New York:
Scribner
Renwick ME, Archibald SO. 1998. Demand side management policies for residential water use: Who bears
the conservation burden? Land Economics 74:343-59.
Sauri, D. 2013: Water Conservation: Theory and Evidence in Urban Areas of the Developed World Annual
Review of. Environment and Resources38:1-22.
Sedlak, D. 2014 Water 4.0. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press
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Sedlak, D. 2014 Water 4.0. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press
Sultana, F. and Loftus, A (eds) 2012 The Right to Water. Politics, governance and social struggles. London:
Earthscan.
Swyngedouw, E. 2004 Social Power and the Urbanization of water Oxford: Oxford University Press
Swyngedouw, E. 2015 Liquid Power. Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth Century Spain. Cambridge,
MA: The MIT Press
Troy P, ed. 2008. Troubled Waters: Confronting theWater Crisis in Australian Cities. Canberra, Australian
University Press
UNESCO. 2012. The UN World Water Development Report: Managing Water under Uncertainty andRisk.
Paris: UNESCO
Willis RM, Stewart RA, Panuwatwanich K, Williams PR, Hollingsworth AL. 2011. Quantifying the influence of
environmental and water conservation attitudes on household end use water consumption. Journal of
Environmental Management 92:1996-2009
World Economic Forum. 2011. Water Security. TheWater-Food-Energy Nexus.Washington, DC: Island.
Yudelson J. 2010. Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society
Bibliography (Energy)
Abramsky, k. (Ed.). 2010. Sparking a Worlwide Energy Revolution: Social struggles in the transition to a
post-petrol world. Edinburgh: AK Press.
Boyle, G. (Ed.). 2004. Renewable energy: power for a sustainable future. Osford: Oxford University Press.
Boyle, G. (Ed.). 2007. Renewable electricit & the grid: the challenge of variability. London: Earthscan
Publications.
Boyle, G.; Everett, B. I Ramage, J. (Eds.). 2003. Energy systems and sustainability. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Droege, P. (Ed.). 2008. Urban energy transition: from fossil fuels to renewable power. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Patterson, W. 2007. Keeping the light son: towards sustainable electricity. London: Earthscan.
Perlin, J. 1999. From Space to Earth: the story of solar electricity.. AATEC Publications.
Scheer, H. 2011. Imperativo energético. Barcelona: Icària
Scheer, H. 2009. Autonomía energética. Barcelona:Icària
Software
None of specific