GPP 543: Sustainable Water Systems
Tuesdays, 2:00 – 5:00pm, Term 1
Location: #1008, Ponderosa Commons: Oak House
Enrollment: Graduate Students with instructor approval (or advanced undergraduates with instructor approval and completed G+PS form).
This course examines ways to value, manage and sustain water systems for agriculture, industry, the built environment, recreation and ecosystems. Topics include principles of water resource modeling and integrated resource management, water accounting in time and space, supply and demand management, and pros and cons with decentralized and centralized solutions. Attention will be given to policy aspects of service delivery, the multiple roles for government intervention, causes and consequences of government policy responses in the water sector, including water system regulations. Special attention will also be paid to the interrelationship between water and sanitation, integrated resource recovery, water and energy, and relationships between water systems and human development.
If you would like to register in this course, please contact Professor Nadja Kunz (nadja.kunz@ubc.ca) to indicate your interest in the course and copy MPPGA Program Coordinator, Alex Brzezinski (mppga.program@ubc.ca) who will assist with registration after professor approval.
GPP 564: Security Challenges for Asian States and People
Tuesdays, 2:00 – 5:00pm, Term 1
Location: #351, C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall)
Enrollment: Graduate Students with instructor approval (or advanced undergraduates with instructor approval and completed G+PS form).
Asian state policies on security threats that impact their national and human security including: civil-military relations, intrastate conflict, transnational crime, spread of disease, and environmental and natural disasters, geo-political power shift, defence modernization, resurgent nationalism, and historical legacies.
If you would like to register in this course, please contact Professor M. V. Ramana (m.v.ramana@ubc.ca) to indicate your interest in the course and copy MPPGA Program Coordinator, Alex Brzezinski (mppga.program@ubc.ca) who will assist with registration after professor approval.
GPP 565: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnic Conflict in Asia
Tuesdays, 9:00am – 12:00pm, Term 1
Location: #1011, Ponderosa Commons: Oak House
Enrollment: Graduate Students with instructor approval (or advanced undergraduates with instructor approval and completed G+PS form).
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, Asian nations emerged out of anti-colonial movement. As each sought idea that supported a singular nation or strong nationalism, Asian states often looked to secular ideas that de-emphasized religious and ethnic differences even as they relied upon religious or cultural ideas that emphasized national sameness. In contemporary Asia, this has given rise to a complex situation in which religious and ethnic identity are emerging to the fore. The course will focus on the kinds of ethnic and religious conflict that are prevalent in Asia, and how these relate to the historical and dialectic development of different forms of nationalism. The course will examine the confluence between religion, ethnicity, and nationalist ideologies in the escalation of conflicts in different Asian societies.
If you would like to register in this course, please contact Professor Tsering Shakya (tsering.shakya@ubc.ca) to indicate your interest in the course and copy MPPGA Program Coordinator, Alex Brzezinski (mppga.program@ubc.ca) who will assist with registration after professor approval.
Thank you,
Alex
Alexandra Brzezinski
Program Coordinator
Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
#161-1855 West Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z2 Canada
Phone 604 822 3801
alexandra.brzezinski@ubc.ca
www.sppga.ubc.ca
@ubcMPPGA | @ubcSPPGA
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