IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science

under the auspices of UNESCO Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management

www.dundee.ac.uk/water

Water law, policy and science are central to the global water challenge. The need is acute; more than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and a scary 2.4 billion are without adequate sanitation. Our work is practical and results-focused; to maximise our impact, we are focused on both building local capacity for water leadership globally and demonstrating the accessibility and utility of our research to decision makers.
Professor Patricia Wouters, Centre Director

Dundee UNESCO Centre

meeting the challenge of managing global resources
The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science under the auspices of UNESCO is a multidisciplinary centre of the University of Dundee, delivering world-class research and helping to educate the next generation of water leaders the world over.

Our UNESCO Status

We operate under the auspices of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)s International Hydrological Programme - Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (IHP-HELP). HELP has established a global network of river basins using hydrological science in support of better integrated catchment management and public engagement. We coordinate the European basins.

Vision and Mission

Water for all is the vision of the Dundee UNESCO Centre to apply our expertise, especially in water law, policy and science in unique and innovative ways to help ensure the equitable, secure and sustainable supply of water for everyone. Building the next generation of local water leaders is our mission using our two core activities of Research and the Water Law, Water Leaders Programme.

HELP Focus
The objectives of the Centre are: to provide a facility that promotes an interdisciplinary approach to addressing global water issues; to provide the intellectual leadership necessary in achieving this approach; to communicate legal expertise on global water issues for the HELP Programme of the UNESCO IHP; to act as the Regional Coordinating Unit for the European HELP basins.

UNESCO HELP basins worldwide network

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Postgraduate Education
Our courses combine law, policy, leadership and science related modules, and are directed at helping our students reach their full potential. We offer the only LLM in international and comparative water law and policy anywhere in the world. Water Law Water Leaders (WLWL) Programme The Water Law Water Leaders (WLWL) programme forms the heart of the teaching delivered by the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science under the auspices of UNESCO. WLWL is focused on developing a new generation of local water leaders to effect locally-devised and locally-driven solutions to water issues. The programme is highly flexible in its approach and has been designed to help you integrate your study with both your work and career development. The WLWL programme is delivered between June and August and allows you to study for a University of Dundee academic award or opt to take individual modules without assessment. WLWL modules cover the three core areas of water law - international water law, comparative national water law and the regulation of water services. Each module lasts three weeks or two weeks without assessment. An additional online WLWL induction module must be completed ahead of the Programme orientation week at the beginning of June.

Water Law (LLM / PGDip / PGCert) The LLM Water Law is one of two LLM programmes delivered by the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science under the auspices of UNESCO. It is delivered in both full-time and part-time modes, and part-time students use a combination of on-campus and online learning. It is also possible to register for a Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma in Water Law. The LLM Water Law allows study of all the relevant areas of water law, as well as a wide range of options in natural resources law, policy and management. Water Governance and Conflict Resolution (LLM) The programme starts in Delft from October to May, studying water resources and also conflict management, delivered by staff from UNESCO Paris who run UNESCOs PCCP programme - from Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential. Students then come to Dundee to participate in our summer graduate school, following the three core areas of water law - international water law, comparative national water law, and the regulation of water services - within a wider group of students and external participants. As a final step to the programme students then complete a dissertation or internship in Dundee or from a distance (as agreed). PhD Programme The PhD progamme provides a unique opportunity to undertake in-depth research across the water disciplines, and especially within the core areas of water law and work with global leaders in water.

Water Resources Management (MSc/ PGDip / PGCert) The MSc is distinctive in that it is delivered mostly online through distance learning and therefore highly flexible, the study of water resources and water law which builds on the strength of the Centres expertise in both disciplines and delivered in partnership with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). Students may choose to apply for the full MSc, the Postgraduate Certificate in Water Resources Management or as an intermediate qualification between the two, the Postgraduate Diploma in Water Resources Management.

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Workshop, Symposia and Customised Training

Every year, and as part of the WLWL programme, we deliver a one week international workshop based on international water law. For 2012, we will also be holding a Symposium on the United Nations Water Convention, in partnership with WWF. These events are highly focused, interactive and offer great networking opportunities for students and international delegates alike.

3rd Annual International Law and Transboundary Freshwaters Workshop 2012

Preparing for the 2013 International Year of Cooperation 11-22 June 2012
International law related to transboundary freshwater serves three basic functions: (1) it defines and identifies the legal entitlements and rights and obligations tied to water use, providing the prescriptive parameters for its development; (2) it provides a framework for ensuring the continuous integrity of the regime, i.e. through monitoring, regulation, compliance, stakeholder participation, dispute avoidance and settlement; and (3) it allows for rational modifications of the existing regime, in order to be able to adapt to the constantlychanging needs and circumstances. The purpose of the workshop will be to explore these three functions of international law within the context of existing and potential challenges faced by transboundary basins (rivers, lakes and aquifers) throughout the world. The workshop will benefit from the collective knowledge and expertise of world-renowned speakers, all of whom have a real world focus. The workshop will benefit anyone concerned with the worlds international watercourses, especially water resources experts, lawyers and non-lawyers, practitioners - including civil servants, policy makers, regulators and water suppliers - as well as academics, who wish to gain fresh insights into how international law can contribute to addressing existing and future challenges over the worlds transboundary freshwater

I had participated in many workshops and symposiums in different parts of the world. The International Law and Transboundary Fresh Waters Symposium and Workshop is unparalleled in terms of coverage, content, details and relevance. Fekahmed Negash Nuru, Ministry of Water Resources, Ethiopia

Above: Delegates and speakers who attended the 2011 Workshop

For further details and to register please visit www.dundee.ac.uk/water/workshop

Customised Training
We can also deliver tailored water law training in-country on arrangement, please contact us to discuss.

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The CEPMLP Experience CEPMLP Experience Research

Research is the beating heart of the Dundee UNESCO Centre. The sheer scope of subjects in its investigative projects is astonishing: from biodiversity to frozen glaciers; and Tweed wetlands to the UN Watercourses Convention. These projects are vital to us in reaching out to all kinds of stakeholders and especially to policy-makers and advisers across the world. The rivers of knowledge and the partnerships that they create allow the IHP-HELP Centre to continually renew itself and ensure the ongoing relevance and impact of our ideas, both through our teaching and our diverse research outputs.

www.dundee.ac.uk/water/research Some of our research projects - www.dundee.ac.uk/water/projects

Assessing Climate Impacts on the Quantity and Quality of Water (ACQWA) ACQWA is a large scale interdisciplinary project funded under the EU seventh Framework Programme. The project is primarily focused on the upper Rhone (France) and Po (Italy) catchments, with additional research being conducted on the Aconcagua (Chile), and Syr Darya (Kyrgyzstan) rivers, and in Argentina and the Pyrenees. The goal of the ACQWA project is to use advanced modelling techniques to quantify the influence of climate change on the major determinants of river discharge at various time and spatial scales, and to analyse the resulting societal and economic consequences, taking account of feedback mechanisms.

Mont Blanc, France, part of the Alpine study mountain range for ACQWA

New Scientific and Technological Basis for Assessing Climate Change and Land-use Impacts on Groundwater (GENESIS) The objective of the GENESIS project is to integrate pre-existing and new scientific knowledge into new methods, concepts and tools for the scheduled revision of the Groundwater Directive and better management of groundwater resources. The Dundee work is focusing on assessing the transposition and implementation of the Groundwater Directive in a number of the project case study areas, most notably in the Rokua eskers in Finland and in the Mancha Oriental aquifer in southern Spain. Integrated Water Resources and Coastal Zone Management in European Lagoons in the Context of Climate Change (LAGOONS) The policy driver for LAGOONS is that knowledge produced by different scientific disciplines needs to be combined and integrated with local knowledge and the views of stakeholders in order to produce integrated, participatory scenarios of future possible trends and conditions in coastal lagoons. LAGOONS will develop policy recommendations and decision support frameworks based on a rigorous synthesis of the scientific, legal, policy and stakeholder engagement work.

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The UNESCO Team

The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science is a lively mix of researchers, both staff and students, and of teaching and learning. Please find some information about our full-time staff below. Mr Andrew Allan
Andrew Allan is a lecturer in National Water Law. In addition to his research responsibilities, he supervises research students and teaches on the LLM programes. Andrew is currently working on three major research projects, all funded through the EUs 7th Framework Programme, ACQWA, GENESIS and LiveDiverse.

Professor Mike Bonell

Professor Mike Bonell is a Professor in Catchment Science and is assisting the Centre to establish a science research programme which interfaces with water policy and water law.

Professor Geoffrey D. Gooch

Professor Geoffrey D. Gooch is Professor of Political Science and holds the EU Jean Monnet Chair of European Political Integration at Linkping University, Sweden. He is the IHP-HELP Centres lead on Policy issues, projects and research. He works closely with water lawyers and scientists at the Centre on environmental issues, helping to integrate the Centres different subject areas through his multidisciplinary Policy focus.

Dr Sarah Hendry
Sarah is a Lecturer in Law, teaching on modules in comparative national water law and the regulation of water services. She is also the Programmes Director for our taught Masters programmes, and Advisor of Studies for our research students. Sarah is an expert in Scots and EU water law. She researches in both water resources (legal frameworks for water resources management, water rights, water quality) and in the regulation of water services (ownership and regulation of the supply of water and sewerage services).

Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke
Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in International Law and heads up the International Water Law Research Cluster at the Dundee IHP-HELP Centre. Alistairs research interests centre around assessing the effectiveness of transboundary watercourse treaty regimes.

Professor Chris J Spray MBE

Chris is the Chair of Water Science and Policy. His Research interests lie in wetland ecosystem services; particularly how emerging research on wetland ecosystem services can be translated in to policy and practice on the ground, with the focus on such ecosystem services as flood risk management, water quality improvements, habitat restoration and conservation of biodiversity - with a particular interest in swans and other waterfowl.

Professor Patricia Wouters

Professor Patricia Wouters is the Director of the Dundee IHP-HELP Centre. She is also the Chair in Water Law. Her current research focuses on the rule of law (in international law) and how it influences regional peace and security through its normative framework governing the worlds transboundary waters. She contributes to the international law programme at Xiamen, one of the top international law schools in China. Her appointment was made as part of the Chinese Governments One-Thousand Talents initiative - a programme aimed at enhancing Chinas research expertise.

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Dundee and UNESCO

The University of Dundee is internationally recognised for its expertise across a range of disciplines including science, medicine, engineering and art. An established university, it has a progressive and dynamic outlook, constantly striving to build on its achievements investing in excellent facilities, pushing the boundaries of research and developing new ways of e-learning. The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science under the auspices of UNESCO and the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy (CEPMLP) form part of the Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management.

The City of Dundee has again been selected as one of the world's top seven 'intelligent communities' US 'think-tank' Intelligent Community Forum (January 2010)
The University of Dundee sits in the heart of the historic city of Dundee on the banks of the River Tay in north east Scotland. From mountains and lochs in the west to miles of coastline in the east, the city is surrounded by magnificent Scottish scenery. Dundee is an excellent base from which to access Edinburgh, London and the rest of Europe.

The University of Dundee is ranked 140 among the world's top 200 universities Times Higher Education 2010-11 World University Rankings
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L to R: Sir Alan Langlands, Teresa Liguori and Professor Dr Patricia Wouters Teresa was the inaugural winner of the Sir Alan Langlands Water Leaders Prize, which is awarded on an annual basis for the period 2010 - 2019 to the graduating student with the best grades in three core water law modules, plus their dissertation or equivalent.

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