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Apr 25, 2024
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HME 303 - Environmental Politics and Planning in the 21st Century
(5-0-5)
HME 101
What is the correct use of rivers, forests, wetlands, or fossil fuels? Who gets to decide how natures and lands are managed? How to design human spaces like buildings, infrastructures, and parks, while minimizing negative impacts to ecosystems and people? This course explores these and other political and practical challenges involved in multidisciplinary, contested field of environmental planning. Through case studies, guest visits, hands-on activities, and lectures, students learn about current land use controversies and practice key environmental impact statements; incorporate community and traditional ecological knowledge; calculate cost benefit analyses and ecosystem services; conduct stakeholder workshops; assess and communicate environmental risk. Through the class students use these approaches to critically analyze a specific local planning project.
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