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Sustainable Resources Management, 15 credits

The course has three parts:

1. Water management. Beginning with a strategy game, lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises explain and extend the practical and theoretical understanding of water management strategies and their trade-offs.

2. Energy management. Beginning with a strategy game, lectures, seminars and laboratory exercises explain and extend this practical understanding with other methods, historical background as well as theoretical understanding.

3. Individual paper where a particular water and/or energy management issue in a particular, community, country or region is reviewed and analyzed, including trade-offs with different societal and environmental goals.

Language of instruction: English
Level: Master's level
Department offering the course: Department of TEMA
Contact:  Susanne Eriksson, 013-282286, susanne.eriksson@liu.se

Specific admission requirements: Passed courses Environmental and Resource Use Challenges and Analytical Frameworks in Sustainability Studies, or similar courses.
Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree/kandidatexamen (equivalent for example a professional degree) of at least 180 ECTS credits, including a 15 ECTS credit degree paper or equivalent. Relevant background is studies within natural science, social science, health science, humanities or engineering that relate to the environmental, social or economic aspects of sustainable development.


Course information
Semester:  Spring  2014
Enrolment code:  LIU-4067B
Rate of study:  Full-time
Campus:  Linköping
Study Period:  201414 - 201423, 31 March-5 June 2014
Course code:  746A69
Tuition fee:  23745 SEK


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