Current Topics of Landscape and Environmental Planning

44M0487

Master

German

5.0

only summer term

1 semester

The module deals with new challenges and current fields of activity for landscape and environmental planning. Building on knowledge of European and national environmental and planning law, students are taught content-related methodological knowledge and skills with regard to different planning instruments in order to enable them to meet the requirements of sustainable spatial planning. The focal points are selected against the background of current legal and practical planning developments in the field of landscape and environmental planning.

Sustainable spatial planning must address the current challenges of environmental protection. These are, for example: - safeguarding the diversity of landscapes, shaping the expansion of renewable energies, spatial adaptation to climate change and demographic change, the renaissance of housing and living in urban neighbourhoods, and questions about the future of rural areas. In-depth treatment of current content-related and methodological topics in landscape and environmental planning using examples. Selection of topics according to topicality, practical planning relevance and the participants' main interests from the following areas (instruments): Landscape planning and overall spatial planning; management planning in protected areas; environmental assessments (environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, FFH impact assessment, impact regulation, special species protection assessment); implementation of environmental requirements relevant to approval (environmental construction supervision).

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Homework / Assignment or
• oral exam or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration

Students have a secure application knowledge of instruments, contents, methods and processes of landscape and environmental planning, environmental impact assessment and environmental impact management.

Students are able to deal in depth and critically with current content-related, methodological and legal developments of environmental planning instruments, in particular those prompted by European law.

tudents can understand the connection between current planning policy frameworks and the relevance of different types of knowledge.

Students can select and critically reflect on methods and approaches in order to be able to react to current challenges in a problem- and goal-oriented way. They can transfer their knowledge gained in this way to similar research and planning tasks.

udents learn to develop questions, select methods and justify this selection and present findings in a way that is appropriate for the target group.

Students can explain and justify the selection of methods and procedures in discourses with experts from other fields of activity and the public in a comprehensible manner.

Students apply professional skills in scheduled and unpredictable planning processes in a professional manner and can define their role within the respective planning processes with confidence.

• Hanusch, Marie Luise

• Hanusch, Marie Luise