Regional Planning

Code: PAO11050L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Landscape and Planning Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The course is based on SD principles and aims is to provide competences to embrace a comprehensive approach of ecological/environmental, socio-economic, institutional and political perspectives.

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

11. Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

13. Ação climática - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

14. Proteger a vida marinha - Conservação e uso sustentável dos oceanos, dos mares, e dos recursos marinhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

15. Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

16. Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

Provide students with the knowledge and tools necessary to an integrated approach in spatial planning processes.
The emphasis is given to the importance of taken into account the different actors in the process. Interdisciplinary is taken as a first step to a successful process, involving several disciplines (landscape architecture, architecture, engineering (bioengineer, civil, environment, ...), geography, economy, sociology,...), according to the paradigm of sustainability.

1. Spatial planning process:
1.1. Introduction to theories and their evolution;
1.2. Basic concepts;
1.3. Planning System in Portugal - tools for land use planning and management;
1.4. Public participation in Spatial planning.
2. Evaluation and public decision: notions of Evaluation. Multicriteira decision aid methodology.
3. Potentialities and constraints for the future of spatial planning in Portugal.

Teaching Methods

Students should have specific readings to introduce each topic of the program. In class, these topics are explained and practical examples are shown, in order to consolidate the knowledge that students acquired with the previous readings.

Assessment

? In accordance with Rectoral Order No. 216/2026, of 22 July:
?Where deemed necessary in order to ascertain the extent to which the student has attained the knowledge and competences defined for the course unit, the student may be required to attend an oral examination, to be convened by the teaching staff, pursuant to paragraph 13 of Article 110 of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora, with full compliance ensured with the provisions set out in paragraph 4 of Article 116 and paragraph 1 of Article 118 of the same Regulations. The oral examination shall account for 60 % of the final mark awarded for the course unit.?

. Continuous evaluation:
- Practical/applied work carried out in the classroom ? 40%
- Written theoretical test without consultation ? 60%

. As an alternative, a final examination - written (A) and oral (B), both obligatory.
FM=(A+B):2

MINIMUM GRADE IN EACH: 8/20.