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Water: Addressing the Global Crisis
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- 9 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Russian
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Syllabus
0. Introduction: Experience, Knowledge, and Understanding
0.0 Welcome to this MOOC
0.1 Introduction to Water
0.2 SDG Vision Statement in 2030
1. No One Will Be Left Behind
1.1 The Global Goal on Water
1.2 Water for All, Health for All
1.3. Water-Related Ecosystems
1.4 Influencing economies
1.5 Eliminating Inequalities
1.6 Enabling Environment for Change
2. Climate Change
2.1 Weather or Climate?
2.2 Defining Vulnerability and Solutions
2.3 Climate Adaptation and Water Management
2.4 Social Fragility, Conflict, and Mitigation
3. Water and Ecosystems
3.1 The State of the World’s Water Resources
3.2 Global Water Challenge: Gray-Green Solutions
3.3 Un-tapping the Potential of Wastewater
3.4 Nature-based Solutions
3.5 Nature-based Solutions: Resilience
3.4 Nature-based Solutions: Real-Life Examples
4. Water Governance Crisis: Who Gets the Water, When and How?
4.1 Water Governance
4.2 Water Services Governance
4.3 Water Resource Governance: from Source to Sea
Part A Source to Sea - The Challenge
Part B Source to Sea - Accelerating Progress
4.4 Impact of water footprints
4.5 Good Water Governance for Accelerating Progress
5. Water and Sanitation Services and Delivery
5.1 Overview of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH)
5.2 Sanitation Service Chain: an Overview
5.3 Urban sanitation
5.4 Rural Sanitation
5.5. Finance
6. Transboundary Water: Source of Conflict or Solution?
6.1 From a Natural Resource into a Political Resource
6.2 The Obligation to Cooperate
6.3 Framework for Collaboration
6.4 Case Study: Middle East
6.5 Case Study: Nile
7. Food and Water
7.1 Green, Blue, and Grey Water
7.2 From Field to Fork
7.3 An Inconvenient Legacy
7.4 Nature Based Solutions and Agriculture
8. A Critical Connection: Water + Energy
8.1 The Nexus Approach
8.2 Case Study: A ten year program, Songwe River
8.3 How does Hydropower Impact Water?
9. Case Studies
9.1 Impact Finance
9.2 Water Services in Rulindo, Rwanda
9.3 Space for Food Security
9.4 Empowering Women
9.5 Good Water management in Industry
9.6 Agriculture History of Central Asia
9.7 Corporate Social Responsibility and Water
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Dr. Therese Sjömander Magnusson
Ex-Chief Operations Officer
Stockholm International Water Institute
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook
Director, Professor
UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
Dr. John H. Matthews
Lead and Co-founder
Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)
Dr. Angela Renata Cordeiro Ortigara
Associate Project Officer
UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
Dr. Marianne Kjellén
Senior Water Advisor
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Dr. Alejandro Jiménez
Program Director for Content Development
Stockholm International Water Institute
Prof. Jan Lundqvist
Professor
Stockholm International Water Institute
Dr. Nathanial Matthews
Program Director
Global Resilience Partnership
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