Planning for Environmental Sustainability
UndergraduateLTU-PLA2PES2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Planning for Environmental Sustainability
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Identify and assess environmental characteristics that influence regions and their development and how they can be addressed while planning regional settlements.
- Identify features of environmental continuity that need to be considered in strategic and statutory regional planning.
- Communicate specialist knowledge of environmental impact assessments at the regional level for integration into spatial planning and translation into sustainable regional development.
- Communicate environmental plans through effective oral and written presentation.
- Natural Resources Management
- Environmental sustainability
- Ecosystem services
- Land suitability analysis
- Land capabilities
- Renewal energy
- Resource extraction
- Catchment management
- Resource Mapping
- Preparing inventories
- Environmental policy
In this subject you will develop a comprehensive understanding of natural environmental considerations when planning for regional scale projects. You will undertake planning studio work which will illustrate planning as a process of broader policy framing with a special focus on the spatial manifestation of environmental features and how they relate to place/s. You will grapple with key environmental challenges and address them through statutory and strategic planning perspectives. Topics covered include natural resources, watersheds and catchments.
This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling.
- Review of an Environmental Management Plan (900 words). (20%)
- Assessment of natural resources in a region. (1350 words). (30%)
- Individual site based environmental project (2250 words). (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: AH003O
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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