GEOG 5520 - Environmental and Sustainability Planning

An introduction to how urban planning tools can be used to support the natural environment and promote local and regional sustainability. Outlines strategies for meeting important biodiversity, water resources, hazard mitigation, working landscape, waste management, and air quality goals. Connects environmental planning with supportive topics such as environmental policy and governance, sustainability and climate action planning, environmental justice, and environmental assessment.

Requisites: Warning: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken):GEOG 5530
Credit Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 research
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 1.0 research
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Describe the theories and concepts that underpin environmental planning and sustainability planning and their relationship with policymaking and assessment.
Explain how environmental and sustainability planning can help communities mitigate and respond to climate change.
Explain the process of environmental planning and sustainability planning, including steps in the planning process and how practitioners, activists, academics, and local citizens gather information, make decisions, and measure outcomes.
Identify and describe planning tools and strategies can be used to enhance environmental conditions, promote wise use of natural resources and create more sustainable communities and regions.
Identify the actors, policies, principles, and plans that have brought environmental planning and sustainability planning practice to their current point.
Recognize a variety of environmental assessment tools and describe how they inform local and regional planning.