Presentations given at Oxford’s International Conference on Water Security, Risk and Society, April 16-18th 2012. The event convened many of the world’s leading thinkers from science, policy and enterprise to understand the status of and pathways to water security at multiple scales. Relevant topics will be discussed such as Sustainable cost recovery: re-shaping the moral economy of ‘Financing Water for All’ and so on.
Assessment
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
Module: 01 | |||
Sustainable cost recovery: re-shaping the moral economy of ‘Financing Water for All’ | 00:13:00 | ||
Water (un)control and water (in)security; theorising an infrastructural framework for water apportionment and access | 00:11:00 | ||
Infrastructure and incentives for water security in North-west China | 00:14:00 | ||
Does privatisation increase water security in the Global South? Evaluating the findings and methods of empirical literature | 00:09:00 | ||
Water security in the Canadian prairies: science and management challenges | 00:15:00 | ||
Flooding and professional dialogue: scientists and local decision-makers exchange ideas | 00:18:00 | ||
Designing robust water supply systems in the UK | 00:15:00 | ||
Water security, climate change and agriculture: a simple framework for rapid assessments | 00:16:00 | ||
Approaching water security from a risk perspective | 00:11:00 | ||
Water security – a matter of national defence | 00:20:00 | ||
Module: 02 | |||
The web of water security: Legal challenges in an interconnected world | 00:18:00 | ||
A systemic legal response to water security: the responsibility to provide solutions beyond definitions! | 00:16:00 | ||
Defining water security for heavy manufacturing industries in Teesside, North East England: from the perils of the 1959 drought to the burden of oversupply | 00:13:00 | ||
Measuring transparency in the water sector: the Spanish case | 00:10:00 | ||
Regional water security and public health implications in Bengal Delta | 00:09:00 | ||
Beyond metrics: can water footprinting improve water security? | 00:18:00 | ||
Measuring what you manage: corporate water risk | 00:15:00 | ||
SABMiller’s perspective on corporate water risk | 00:14:00 | ||
Lessons from public-private-civil society partnerships to address shared water risk | 00:17:00 | ||
Elements of sustainable urban water services | 00:14:00 | ||
Module: 03 | |||
Continuous water supply – an essential component for achieving water security | 00:18:00 | ||
Coping with risk-managing distribution networks | 00:14:00 | ||
The political economy of land and water grabs | 00:12:00 | ||
Dust-up over the Brahmaputra: India, China and the impending encounter of river diversion mega-schemes | 00:17:00 | ||
The impact of uncertainties on cooperation and conflict in transboundary water management | 00:15:00 | ||
The water security implications of water securitization: an Israeli-Palestinian perspective | 00:16:00 | ||
Mobile-enhanced handpump maintenance innovations in rural India | 00:12:00 | ||
LIFELINK – Reducing financial and operational risks to rural water security | 00:13:00 | ||
Smart handpumps and rural water security risk | 00:19:00 | ||
Rural water supply management and monitoring innovations from West Africa | 00:19:00 | ||
Module: 04 | |||
Designing water entitlement systems for an ever changing and ever varying future | 00:13:00 | ||
What’s the national economic value of water trading? | 00:14:00 | ||
Water reform in a transaction costs world: concepts, metrics and lessons learned | 00:16:00 | ||
Water security and the irrigation sector | 00:15:00 | ||
Enhancing water security for the benefit of humans and nature – a multi-level governance challenge | 00:22:00 | ||
Water services regulation and water security | 00:21:00 | ||
Economic innovations to manage water security risks and tradeoffs | 00:18:00 | ||
Water security and economic growth – an imperative for climate change adaptation | 00:17:00 | ||
River basin management pathways to water security | 00:20:00 | ||
Module: 05 | |||
Risk and response: a business perspective on water security | 00:28:00 | ||
Catalysing sustainable water security – role of science, innovation and partnerships | 00:27:00 | ||
Managing risk from climate variability and change: lessons from Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin | 00:21:00 | ||
Decision making under uncertainty: a new paradigm for water security | 00:23:00 | ||
Growing water scarcity in agriculture – future challenge to global water security | 00:23:00 | ||
Water scarcity, water quality and aquatic ecology: impacts of climate and land use change on the River Thames system | 00:12:00 | ||
How credible are hydrological projections in a changing world? | 00:11:00 | ||
Changing land-atmosphere feedbacks in tropical African Wetlands | 00:10:00 | ||
Securing water in a changing climate | 00:12:00 | ||
Building dams, building states: water, development and politics in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin | 00:12:00 | ||
Module: 06 | |||
Pan-European landscape of cooperation on transboundary waters: main issues and security implications | 00:17:00 | ||
Water diplomacy: a networked approach to understanding, measuring and managing water security | 00:16:00 | ||
Scenario based elicitation of expert perceptions of water security and climate change adaptation in the Nile Basin | 00:15:00 | ||
Three things for the water security community to know about the energy sector | 00:10:00 | ||
Water security, energy scarcity and sustainable development | 00:18:00 | ||
Resource implications of the move to non-conventionals in the energy and water sectors | 00:09:00 | ||
Solar water – ecosystem implications of the food/water/energy nexus in La Mancha, Spain | 00:08:00 | ||
Joint Monitoring Programme Equity and Non-Discrimination Working Group | 00:13:00 | ||
Joint Monitoring Programme Sanitation Working Group | 00:11:00 | ||
Joint Monitoring Programme Water Working Group | 00:20:00 | ||
Module: 07 | |||
Water and sanitation planning: concepts, institutions and action | 00:14:00 | ||
Rocks, hard places and road blocks: challenges on the paths to water security in Africa | 00:17:00 | ||
Diageo’s approach to water – supporting business growth | 00:13:00 | ||
State of water and sanitation: how secure is water for people? | 00:13:00 | ||
Water security and the global development challenge | 00:16:00 | ||
Addressing water security risks: can we leapfrog carbon? | 00:19:00 | ||
Risk-based principles for defining and managing water security | 00:22:00 | ||
The case of the water insecure: building a national, regional and global coalition | 00:20:00 | ||
Peak water and peak energy: implications for security | 00:24:00 | ||
Framing the agenda: the global case for science, policy and enterprise | 00:26:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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