Water Resources Management

Water resources in Norwegian and International perspective. Main challenges in water resources planning and management is the scarcity of water, environmental degradation, water conflicts. Land use changes and climate change and its effect on water resources. Flood problems, flood zone planning, flood warning and flood control systems. River regulation systems for hydropower, flood control, water supply and irrigation. Optimization of water use and balancing water conflicts by the use of models for operation. Water resources management in Norway; laws; organization; procedures for application; protected watersheds. International water resources management, examples from Europa, Africa and Asia. EU's water directive and its effect on Norwegian water management.

An introduction to water resources planning and management. Methods used for using and sharing water resources, including technical, economical and environmental investigations and methods of analysis.

Lectures; excursions; case studies. The lectures and exercises are in English when students who do not speak Norwegian take the course.