Urban and Environmental Management

Recommended Prerequisites

Administrative Law, English.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and discussion classes focusing on the interactive discussion of different methods and instruments and their application, limitations and advantages in practice. In-class teamwork is thus a key component.

Learning Outcomes

From the point of view of content students should a) understand the various principles and instruments inherent in new trends of Law of Urban Planning and Environmental Management; b) understand and question the various concepts in these areas. From the point of view of technical skills students should a) know test in practice the principles, apprehended instruments and concepts (will be provided for this purpose, the analysis and discussion of real case studies); b) have acquired (or consolidated) ways of thinking, theory and practice in the area of implementation plans and environmental management, especially emphasizing its application in the context of public organizations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introductory remarks

2. Urban planning law and urban management

2.1. Planning as precedent and constraint of urban management: urban management without plans and urban management  as implementation of plans;

2.2. Urban scheduled management (systematic execution of plans)

2.3. Unsystematic implementation: the general regime in force (Legal Regime of Urbanization and Building)

3. Urban management and sustainable development: the role of environmental management

3.1. The scale of Environmental Problems and the need for Integrated Management

3.2. Principles of Environmental Management

3.3. Environmental Management Instruments.  

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernanda Paula Marques Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Fernanda Paula Oliveira, Direito do Urbanismo. Do planeamento à gestão, Braga, NEDAL,  2010.

Fernanda Paula Oliveira, Novas tendências do direito do urbanismo. De um urbanismo de expansão e de segregação a um urbanismo de contenção, de reabilitação urbana e de coesão social, Coimbra, Almedina, 2011.

Moreno Pires, S.; Fidélis, T.; Ramos, T.B. (2014) Measuring and comparing local sustainable development through common indicators: constraints and achievements in practice, Cities, 39, pp. 1-9.

Fidélis, T.; Moreno Pires, S. (2009) 'Surrender or resistance to the implementation of Local Agenda 21 inPortugal: the challenges of local governance for sustainable development', Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 52(4), 497-518.

Videira, N.; Alves, I.; Subtil R. (2007) Instrumentos de Apoio à Gestão do Ambiente, Universidade Aberta, Vol. 1 e 2.

Pinto, A. (200) Sistemas de Gestão Ambiental: Guia para a sua implementação, Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.