Governance of Land and Water

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Choose semester and course offering to see current information and more about the course, such as course syllabus, study period, and application information. Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format. The course applies an integrated approach of theoretical and practical knowledge and examples from different contexts. The course will focus on a wide range of land and water governance issues and provide students with theoretical perspectives and practice oriented experiences and aspects. The course does not focus on technical questions in itself, but technical aspects may be included in a socio-technical analysis through case studies. Land use governance is an important field of politics that can promote economic, environmental and social aims. Planning and regulation of land use are the most important factors for land use connected to housing, transport, energy, water, agriculture, tourism and economic development - all these sectors set requirements on land and influence how it is used. This constitutes a complex challenge between sectors, but also at different levels of governance since many sectoral questions are divided into national, regional and local public authorities. An efficient governance of land use requires new planning methods that promote an efficient and innovative land use. Land use and water resources are intrinsically united with one another. Land use for agriculture and food production are very dependent on the access to water. At the same time, land use and land development have large impa