Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Fresh water is the resource most essential to human life. It is also getting scarcer: the population is growing, the climate is shifting, and some experts already predict the first “water wars” of the 21st century.
This course explores why such a vital resource is becoming a major strategic issue, able to bring neighboring countries together, or to set them against each other.
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- 2A scarce resource, badly shared
- 3The geopolitics of shared rivers
- 4Technology against scarcity
- 5Toward shared governance of blue gold
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary9 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
