Land-use Planning and Environment
This course unit introduces the fundamental concepts, tools and variables in land-use management that can be used in managing for sustainability. It also aims to show that land-use management and environment are complementary and should act simultaneously as joint actions, not interchangeable and even less antagonistic or conflicting. Special emphasis is placed on planning instruments that take the long-term view to sustainability, natural hazards as a key factor in the planning process and the process of public participation in land-use management.
Land-use management;
Environmental planning.
1. Introduction to land use management – History, concepts and principles of land use management.
2. Instruments of Land Use Management – National plans and policies, Regional Plans, Municipal Plans, Legal constraints (REN, RAN, Rede Natura 2000, ZPE, ZEC, easements, and other constraints).
3. Fundamental variables in land use management: biophysical and socio-economic variables.
4. Natural hazards and land use management – mass-wasting, floods, coastal dynamics.
5. Public participation in land use management.
Cavaco, C., Mourato, J., Costa, J.P., Pereira, A., Vilares, E., Moreira, P., & Magalhães, M. (2022). Introdução ao Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento Regional em Portugal. Direção-Geral do Território.
Partidário, M. R. (1999). Introdução ao Ordenamento do Território. Universidade Aberta (incluindo a adenda ao Manual (Caeiro, 2004))
Branco, M. C. & Couto, A. (2012). Servidões e restrições de utilidade pública (edição digital). Coleção Informação 9. Direção-Geral do Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento Urbano.
E-learning (fully online).
Evaluation is made on individual basis and it involves the coexistence of two modes: continuous assessment (60%) and final evaluation (40%). Further information is detailed in the Learning Agreement of the course unit.