课程题目：Global and Regional Issues: Water and Food

授课对象：硕士研究生和博士研究生

授 课 人：Aditya Sood 研究员

授课人单位：国际水资源研究所(IWMI)

授课语言：英语

授课时间：2013年10月14日-10月31日

                    每周一、三、四上午9:00-12:00，周二下午14:30-17:30

授课地点：主教16楼学术报告厅

上课人数：20人以内

联系人：拟听课的学生请发邮件至潘国艳老师的邮箱guoyan.pan@gmail.com或者佘敦先博士的邮箱shedunxian@sina.com，以便于准备资料(邮件内容：姓名、学号、以前专业、现在专业、指导教师等信息)

课程简介：

       全球和区域的水问题十分复杂，也是国际社会一直在努力解决的环境问题，这些复杂问题中哪些涉及到水文方面。本课程将介绍当前的热点问题和研究前沿，以水资源核算为出发点的水管理技术：(1)介绍由国际水资源管理研究所开发的水资源核算方法，以及在这一领域的最新进展。(2)介绍环境流量和它背后的科学，讲解国际水资源管理研究所开发的环境流技术；(3)讲授系统的分析方法，介绍水电开发的经济模式IWMI和IFRPRI。(4)海水淡化的历史及未来，以及IWMI在其中的应用实例。

课程提纲：

Lecture 1 is on the issues in general.

       The lecture will focus on global and regional issues especially dealing with water. It will discuss the current issues and how the world is trying to deal with these. There will be a small history of how the world community has been trying to grapple with the environmental problems.  It will also cover the drivers of changes in future and how they are impacting these issues.

Lecture 2 looks at these issues in terms of hydrology.

       After having discussed the global and regional issues in lecture 1, this lecture tries to look at these issues from the lens of hydrology, i.e. what does it really mean in terms of hydrology? How these complex issues can be broken down in hydrology? What is the current research being done and where we need to focus in future?

Lecture 3 looks at Water Accounting as the starting point for water management.

      Realizing that for any kind of water resource management or study, a good knowledge of water accounting is required, this lecture focuses on water accounting methodology developed by IWMI. It first discusses different water accounting techniques developed by different organizations and then discusses in detail the latest work in this field.

Lecture 4 looks at environmental flows and science behind it.

       A good water management is that which can meet human needs while also leaving enough water for the environment in a catchment. What are environmental flows and how are they calculated? What work has been done so far and how are they developed? What is the latest science in this field? The lecture with then focus on the environmental flow techniques developed at IWMI.

Lecture 5 looks at integrated/system based approach.

       After looking at the global issues only in terms of hydrology, this lecture tries to make a point that the issues are much more complicated and other factors such as socio-economic factors also play a role. Thus we need to look at a systems approach to the issue. Within this context a hydro-economic model developed at IWMI and IFRPRI is discussed.

Lecture 6 looks at out of box solution – desalination.

       The last lecture looks at solution outside the regular box of hydrology. It looks at the science and history of desalination and its future. In this lecture the work done at IWMI regarding the future of desalination in meeting water demand is discussed.

Aditya Sood研究员简介：

       Aditya Sood has a diverse research and professional background that comprises over eight years in watershed modelling, three years in civil and environmental engineering, and seven years in software development. This interdisciplinary professional background along with educational degrees in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Energy and Environmental Policy puts him in a unique position to work on broad range of water and socio-economic projects. Currently, he is working as a researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he is involved in multiple water-related projects dealing with hydro-economic model development and river basin level studies. He is also conducting field level hydrological studies using GIS and remote sensing. Before joining IWMI, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at University of Maryland, College Park, USA, where he implemented Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model in Chesapeake Bay study that linked weather forecasting model with estuary model. While in US, he did consulting work for international and US based organizations. His areas of expertise include watershed and water quality management/modelling, GIS-based decision-support and planning, and integrated (water/energy/environment) policy analysis. His software programming skills include database development, data processing, programming in object oriented languages, web development, GAMS and FORTRAN in Windows and UNIX environment. Dr. Sood's research objectives include integrating fundamentals of science, engineering and policy to understand hydrological processes as isolated processes, at watershed scale, and within complex ecosystems. He is interested in analysing impact of anthropogenic activities (such as land use changes and water usage) and of natural changes (such as climate change) on hydrological processes and vice versa at watershed scale.