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Cursus: GEO3-2121
GEO3-2121
Sustainable Land Use
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeGEO3-2121
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
Please note: the information in the course manual is binding.
 
 
At the end of the course, you will be better able to:
  1. understand various sustainable land use issues and policy objectives for blue, green, red and grey infrastructure;
  2. identify and explain (possible) tensions between these policy objectives;
  3. explain and discuss theories of governance and science-policy interactions in relation to sustainable land use;
  4. analyse and evaluate policy objectives on the extent to which they enable sustainable land use;
  5. design and conduct a study on a specific topic related to sustainable spatial land use from a governance and/or science-policy perspective.
 The following academic skills are developed during the course: academic thinking and reasoning, academic writing, and oral presentation.
Inhoud
This course is also available to students who are registered for the minor MMW, GSD or Deltametropool. They have to contact Erika Dijksma (e.b.dijksma@uu.nl) before 16 September 2019.

Space is scarce. This scarcity is especially experienced in dense urban areas in which public and private actors want to combine multiple social functions, such as housing, economic activities, transportation and recreation. As a result of this scarcity, these functions (and related stakeholders and interests) often have to compete with each other in order to gain the amount of space they want and need. The focus of such a competition can be both related to quantitative - e.g. how to divide the amount of acres - or qualitative issues - e.g. how to improve livability or how to circumvent loss of greenery. This makes sustainable land use challenging.
 
In recent decades, the focus of land use planning and policy has shifted towards more sustainable development. The main aim of sustainable land use is that current land use plans take into consideration the impacts they will have on the livability of future generations. This requires trade-offs between ‘strong’, often economic, interests, such as the development of housing, infrastructure and business parks, and ‘weak’ interests, e.g. nature development and water management. This is a complex process which is confronted with several challenges.
 
In the course, we introduce four types of spatial infrastructure that are of socio-economic relevance: red (houses, offices, retail), green (parks, nature conservation areas, forests), blue (rivers, sea and oceans) and grey (energy, transport, ICT). This course explores sustainability challenges for each infrastructure from an international perspective and also identifies and analyses conflicts between the four infrastructures. The perspectives of governance and science-policy interactions are used for understanding these challenges and conflicts. 

This course is a third year track-specific course of the track ‘Governance and Societal Transformation’ of the BSc Global Sustainability Science (GSS). GSS students need to choose three out of five of these courses in order to complete the track. The course, furthermore, replaces the Dutch course ‘Duurzaam Ruimtegebruik’ for students in Environmental Studies (MMW). The course focuses on European challenges, in terms of governance and in terms of science-policy interactions, and addresses the European institutional context.

This course is the entry requirement for
  • Bachelor’s thesis MMW (GEO3-2137), theme Duurzaam Ruimtegebruik.
Please Note: Entry requirements for Sustainable Land Use:
  • NW&I: Number of credits achieved: 90EC of the Bachelor's programme
  • MMW/LAS/GSS: Passed Politics of the Earth (GEO1-2414) and participated fully in Policy Evaluation and Design (GEO2-2113).
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