PLAN40610 Environment & Sustainability

Academic Year 2024/2025

As the foremost discipline concerned with the governance of space, planning is central to confronting the twin crises of climate change and the biodiversity loss. This module responds to these challenges by furnishing students with theoretical and practical planning knowledge that can be critically employed in the practice of policy formulation and development management to advance the environmental agenda in sustainability planning.

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Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
(1) demonstrate knowledge of a range of key environmental and sustainability issues pertaining to planning;
(2) demonstrate an advanced ability to apply concepts and theoretical knowledge to the formulation of policy for advancing environmental sustainability through planning.
(3) demonstrate a critical capacity to apply knowledge on environmental sustainability to development management activities.

Indicative Module Content:

Indicative content includes: climate change planning, energy transition planning, ecosystems services approaches to planning; green infrastructure planning; environmental planning for health and wellbeing

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

26
Autonomous Student Learning

150
Lectures

24
Total

200
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
• lecture
• case-based learning
• problem based learning
• in-class interactive group work
• serious gaming
• field trip
• practitioner presentations
• assignment 'clinic'
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Incompatibles:
PLAN40200 - Nature-Based Solutions, PLAN40230 - Governing Nature


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Individual Assignment Week 14 Graded No

50

 No
Practical Skills Assessment: Presentation Week 6 Graded No

20

 No
Group Work Assignment: Group Project Week 7 Graded No

30

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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