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PLAN40610

Academic Year 2024/2025

Environment & Sustainability (PLAN40610)

Subject:
Planning
College:
Engineering & Architecture
School:
Architecture, Plan & Env Pol
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Michael Lennon
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

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: ecosystems services approaches to planning; green infrastructure planning; environmental planning for health and wellbeing, spatial planning for climate change mitigation and adaptation

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

36

Specified Learning Activities

14

Autonomous Student Learning

150

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 7 Graded No
20
No
Group Work Assignment: Group Project Week 8 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?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Karen Foley Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Tues 14:00 - 16:50