Watershed Environment and Hydro-Environmental Studies

THE 2022 YEAR

This course is carried out with Hydrology for GSE, Watershed Environment for GSES, and Hydro-Environmental Studies for human security course. GSE (Graduate School of Engineering), GSES (GS of Environmetal Studies)

Venue!
This class is carried out in lecture room 203 in GSE (2nd floor in GSE lecture buildings). Building of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
https://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/english/map/?menu=campus&area=f&build=01

Language!
If foreign students attend, English will be used in this class.


SCHEDULE
This class starts at 14:40 on Thursday.

#01 6, Oct. Outline of course, Brief introduction

-- Part A: Physical water processes --

#02 13, Oct. Atmospheric processes
#03 20, Oct. Surface flow
#04 27 Oct. Subsurface flow

-- Part B: General water resources --

#05 10, Nov. Storage and dams by ONLINE (Dr. Komori)
#06 17, Nov. Ecology and water
#07 24, Nov. Water Environment by ONLINE
https://classroom.google.com/c/NDczMzYyNzk4MjAx

-- Part C: Social science aspect of water --

#08 1, Dec. Water conflict by Dr. Hiraga (Lecture room 203. Not online)
#09 8, Dec. Water economics
#10 15, Dec. Water Law (River law in Japan) and water rights by ONLINE (Dr. Komori)
#11 22, Dec. Water Politics by ONLINE (Dr. Komori)

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#12 5. Jan. Water Resources Management

#13 12, Jan. Presentation(90min)
#14 19, Jan. Presentation(90min)

#15 26, Jan. A spare day if classes will be cancelled.


NOTE!!
Students must join 1st and last 3 classes, which are in common part. Also, students must take 1 part from A to C and join all classes in the part. The course is divided into 4 parts, the common part and selected parts, and each part has 3 or 4 classes. Thus, students should join 7 or 8 classes.
You can take any classes for your capacity building.

EVALUATION
A presentation and assignments are evaluated for the grade. Subjects in each assignment will be informed in the class.


ASSIGNMENTS
Each part provides one assignment. You have to take 2 assignments to obtain this credit.
One assignment in the part of your participation should be written in detail within 10 pages. Too careful and understandable content is requested.
The other assignment in the part you did not join, should be written in 4 pages. Simple and condensed content is necessary.

You can submit it by E-mail.!! Your name with ID should be included in the report.

Subject (later informed)

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Part A:
Report each hydrological process amount in hydrological cycle in your country. Collect data from web site and others if available and estimate some fluxes and amounts if unavailable. Some equations and functions based on fundamental data can help the estimation. You do not take one information but discuss it from some sets of data. It is noted that uniform unit should be used. Submit this report by e-mail with title "Assignment for class (your name)" by 17th December.
(Accepted Rini, Marcus, Gu, Noel, Jarin)

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Part B:
Report water environment prblems in your country and a series of the problem impact. Also report solution and adaptation to solve those problems. Please pay attention to not only techonlogical solution but software measures. More aspects are highly evaluated. Submit this report by e-mail with title "Assignment for class (your name)" by 9th January.
(Accepted Kenneth, Jarin, Edward, Wasitha,Gu, Mark, )

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Part C:
Report the water conflict in a view of water resources. There are many kinds of water conflict. Tell your ideas how to solve those conflicts. Some examples and/or cases for this matter are acclaimed. (Deadline is 29 January)
(Accepted Wasitha, Kenneth, Edward, Marcus, Mark, Noel, )

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NOTE!!
If plagiarism will be found, this crdit will be removed.




PRESENTATION:
All students should have a presentation in only 5 minutes in English. Please show your research subject and one topic in your research related to this class or water. Students should prepare a power point file for the presentation.


If you want to ask me..... email me.


REFERENCES
1. Technical book
Ven Te Chow, David D Maidment, Larry W Mays, Applied Hydrology, McGraw-hill International Editions
David R Maidment, Handbook of Hydrology, McGraw-hill International Editions

2. General book
Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, Blue Gold: The fight to stop the corporate theft of the world's water. New York: The New Press
Kandel, R., Water from heaven: The story of water from the big bang to the rise of civilization, and beyond. Columbia Univ. Press


日本人向け　専門用語対訳
水文学，風間聡，コロナ社
図説水文学，山本荘毅，高橋裕，共立出版