Short Course on Urban Catchment Management – Towards Water Sensitive Cities
University of Cape Town – UCT
This course has been designed to equip the next generation of critical thinkers to consider increasingly complex water challenges. An inter-and transdisciplinary (IDTD) approach is adopted so that participants are empowered to engage with the environmental, technical, socio-cultural, economic and political challenges around water to create an understanding of water’s diverse role in society and in sustaining livelihoods. This course will challenge participants to consider water in new ways and equip them with the skills to apply their learnings in different contexts.
Curriculum
- Water sensitive design and water sensitive cities
- Urban water systems and public health impacts
- Wastewater treatment and reuse / remediation practices, including water-food-energy nexus
- Water and socio-cultural aspects and responses
- Impact of climate change and nature-based responses aimed at building resilience
- Water quality monitoring and the use of sensors / IoT
