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ADVANCED WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
213101010
Description
I. Introduction
T1. Problems in planning and management of water resources. Administrative and regulatory issues in water resources management. Hydrological Planning.

II. Simulation of Water Resources Systems
T2. Typology and methodologies for assessment of water resources. Deterministic distributed and lumped modelling.
T3. Assessment of climate change impact on water availability. Building climate ensembles.
T4. Generation of synthetic time series of runoff. Stochastic modelling.

III. Assessment of Water Uses and Demands
T5. Methodologies of water uses and demands assessment
T6. New approaches in the water accounting systems. SEEA-WATER System

IV. Decision Support Systems in Water Resources Management
T7. Introduction to Decision Support Systems (DSS). Hydroeconomic models.
T8. Optimization of water resources systems. Lineal Programming. Dynamic Programming. Multiobjective analysis and decision-making.
T9. Simulation of water resources systems. Application of DSS at basin scale.
T10. Regulation and demands.

V. Assessment of climate change impact on water extremes and exploitation systems
T11. Assessment of climate change (CC) impacts on water extremes. Results of CC impacts on exploitation systems.
ECTS credits
6
Teaching Language
Español
Exam Language
Español
Support Materials Language
Español
Basic Learning Outcomes
  • Scientific-technical and methodological training for the continuous improvement of knowledge and the exercise of professional functions of advice, analysis, design,  project, planning, management and operation in the fields of Environmental engineering. 
    (B1 - EEM - Scientific-technical and methodological training for the continuous improvement of knowledge and the exercise of professional functions of advice, analysis, design,  project, planning, management and operation in the fields of Environmental engineering. )
  • Understanding of the multiple technical, legal and property constraints that arise in a project of Environmental engineering work. 
    (B2 - EEM - Understanding of the multiple technical, legal and property constraints that arise in a project of Environmental engineering work. )
  • Understanding the necessary professional knowledge of a Master's degree in  Environmental  Engineering, and of the activities that can be carried out in the field of  Environmental Engineering.
    (B5 - EEM - Understanding the necessary professional knowledge of a Master's degree in  Environmental  Engineering, and of the activities that can be carried out in the field of  Environmental Engineering.)
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Managing Entity (faculty)
Civil Engineering and Mining Engineering School (UPCT)