Water, Food and Energy

Whether your goal is to excel as an irrigation or energy engineer, to work in policy development, as a computer modeller for water or energy use or to pursue many other careers in the field of water, food and energy, this track will give you a head start.

You will examine water-related linkages between food and low-carbon energy production and critically assess possible trade-offs and synergies. You will consider both integrated and disciplinary approaches for land and water management in the broader context of global and local land and water reforms. You will learn how these approaches relate to technological and economic opportunities, and how to safeguard the environment and social justice while using them.

Depending on the profile you choose, you will learn to:

• develop appropriate governance mechanisms informed by historic, social and institutional analysis;
• review how digital innovations such as remote sensing and artificial intelligence can support sustainable water engineering and management;
• critically analyse processes of rural transformation in food and energy production;
• plan, design, operate and maintain irrigation infrastructure for food security and resilient livelihoods; or
• develop and integrate new and existing forms of water-based energy, including closing resource loops in urban and rural settings, amongst many other subjects.

This track targets students who want to help transform our society into one where water, food and energy security is achieved with more sustainable and equitable practices.