ClassInfo - Spring 2023 Public Affairs Classes

Spring 2023 | PA 5723 Section 001: Water Policy (57558)

Instructor(s): Joe Magner
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Meets With:: WRS 5101 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023

Tue, Thu 10:15AM - 11:30AM

UMTC, St Paul

Biosystems/Agricultural Eng 308
Enrollment Status:: Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Spring 2023
Spring 2022

Course Catalog Description:: Socio-cultural, legal, and economic forces that affect water resource use. Water quality, Clean Water Act contrasted with international laws, roles of State and Local agencies. Water supply, drought, flooding, drainage, irrigation, storage. Sulfide mining, Line 3, hypoxia, wildfire, climate, snowpack, extreme events, China south-to-north transfer, CEC's, AIS, Aral Sea, CAFOs, and more.
Class Description:: Sociocultural, legal, economic, and environmental forces affecting supply/use of water by individuals, sectors, and governance institutions. Historical trends; water laws in United States and internationally. Institutional structures for managing water at federal, state, and local levels. Current water-related issues/policies. prereq:
Grad student or instr consent
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57558/1233
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 20 October 2015

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