Territorial Planning and Multiscalar Risk Analysis

Recommended Prerequisites

Scientific and technical expertise compatible with the Master degree or a Professional or Scientific curriculum of great merit.

Teaching Methods

The seminar is organized in face-to face sessions with a brief initial presentation by the teacher, and subsequent broader discussion by students. Students will have prior access to the bibliography for each session. Students will prepare a critical report for each set of thematic sessions.

Each student writes an individual paper of conceptual reflection and / or methodological development, focused in one of the subjects studied during the course. This written work is presented and discussed in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

Aims:

- Recognition of evolution in concepts and practice within the Planning and Land Use Management;

- Learning the legal framework of Risk and the practical evaluation procedures within the Spatial Planning;

- Understanding of multi-scale integration of risk in programs and development plans and spatial planning;

- Understanding the integration procedures of risk analysis into territorial models, Strategic Option, Standards and

Guidelines for spatial planning.

Skills:

- To recognize the multi-scale nature of risks analysis in the context of development plans and spatial planning;

- To be able to integrate risk analysis in the planning practice.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Planning and Land Use Planning: Evolution and perspectives.

2. A framework for risk analysis in the context of Planning in its various scales of intervention.

3. Integration of risk analysis in programs and plans, at various scales. The Program for the National Policy

Planning (PNPOT); the Regional Plans for Spatial Planning (PROT); the Municipal Plans for Spatial Planning

(PMOT).

4. Procedures for the inclusion of risk in the territorial models of Plans at various scales.

5. Definition of Strategic Option, Standards and Guidelines for risk management in Spatial Planning.

Head Lecturer(s)

Eduarda Pires Valente da Silva Marques da Costa

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Research work: 80.0%

Bibliography

ARMONIA (2007) Assessing and Mapping Multiple Risks For Spatial Planning. Approaches, Methodologies and Tools in Europe. Lancaster Univ., Depart. Geography. www.armoniaproject.net
Birkmann, J; et al (eds.) (2009). Addressing the challenge: recommendations and quality criteria for linking disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. Publication Series 38, German Committee for Disaster Reduction, Bonn
Committee on Planning for Catastrophe (2007) Successful Response Starts with a Map. The National Academies Press, Washington DC
Cutter, S L; et al (2000) Revealing the vulnerability of people and places: a case study of Georgetown County, South Carolina. Annals AAG, 90(4): 713-737
Graeme S C (2011) Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Springer, New York ISDR (2009) 2009, UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction. UN, Geneva. UNISDR (2010). Local Governments and Disaster Risk Reduction. UN/ISDR/ITC, Geneva, Switzerland.