Training on "Water and Environmental Law and Institutions"

Brief Description:

The purpose of this short course is to introduce the students to theoretical and practical aspects of water and environmental resources management from a legal and policy perspective. The course focuses on multi-level governance from global through to local levels and teaches skills needed in order to improve the institutions needed for water and environmental management.

Learning Objectives:

The key objectives of this short course are to understand how water and environmental resources can be managed sustainably, and what the advantages and disadvantages of different instruments and institutional approaches are.

Target Group:

This short course is for top and mid-level decision makers, technical experts and professional trainers and researchers in relevant technical and managerial fields of work in both the public and private sector. All participants who complete this course receive a Certificate of Attendance from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education.

Additional Information:

The national component plays an important part in the international part of this short course, and the international component is interwoven into the national dimension. The course uses interactive lectures, practices in stakeholder interviews and analysis, negotiation exercises, role-plays, workshops, case studies, the internet and audio-visual means.

Deadline application IHE:
26 March 2010