DEL: Seeing the Big Picture: Lessons from Watershed Management in California

Catalog description

This course is an exploration of the interdisciplinary and often controversial nature of watershed management in California using examples from arguably the most manipulated and well-studied watershed in the US. These problems and their solutions are relevant to all watersheds. Topics include: host factors governing fish and wildlife responses and effects; fate, transport, and biogeochemistry of agricultural chemicals; exotic species introduction; economics considerations governing water allocations storage; transport, and conservation; and conflict resolution efforts between competing interest groups. Open to Duke Environmental Leadership Master of Environmental Management students only. Department consent required for all other students. Online course.