Course structure - Conflict and cooperation in international watersheds
1 Introduction method and course content
2 History of water society nexus
2.1 History of water conflict and cooperation
2.2 Nile watershed
3 Water and space
3.1 Political geography and Physical geography of water
3.2 Environmental determinism, international and internationalized rivers
3.3 Rivers of North American subcontinent
4 Water and complexity theory
4.1 Survey to study of complex phenomena (terms, authors, "C" theories)
4.2 Watershed as an open system
4.3 Case study - Mekong river
5 Introduction to the system International water law
5.1 Evolution of international water law
5.2 Customary norms of international laws and borders at international rivers as an emergent phenomena
6 International water treaties and judicial decisions
6.1 Water treaty - basic instrument of international water cooperation
6.2 Decision of the International court of Justice in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case
7 Water institutions
7.1 Role of international organizations (UN, ILA, ILC, UNESCO…)
7.2 RBOs in African Continent
8 Water: commodity or basic human right
8.1 Ownership of water in the religious and secular normative systems
8.2 Economic approach to water allocation and quest for Parreto-optimal distribution
8.3 Game theory and transboundary water allocation
8.4 Case study - watersheds of South America
9 Threats to transboundary watershed equilibrium
9.1 Equilibrium, sustainability and stressors
9.2 Basins at risk and evolving water institutions
9.3 Water infrastructure
9.4 Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya watershed and desiccation of Aral sea
10 Quantitative research of international watersheds and sources of water data
10.1 Geopolitical, socioeconomic and biophysical data
10.2 Software tools and decision support systems
10.3 Case study - Indus and Ganga-Brahmaputra-Mengha
11 Water as catalyst for peace or fuel to the war
11.1 Presentation of student case studies
11.2 General discussion