2024
Territorial Planning
Name: Territorial Planning
Code: ECN08395M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Economy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Objective of the course:
In this subject, the students should understand the main concepts related with the planning process and their relevance in the scope of the territorial development; deepen the knowledge about the main models, the stages and the importance for the strategy definition and support decision making processes. In the Portuguese case, the students will have to know the main tools in the area of territorial management and planning.
Expected learning outcomes and competences to be acquired:
The students will have to understand the framework of the economic and social planning in the global scope of the support decision making processes; on the other hand, the students must understand the planning process, integrating it and developing specific activities.
In this subject, the students should understand the main concepts related with the planning process and their relevance in the scope of the territorial development; deepen the knowledge about the main models, the stages and the importance for the strategy definition and support decision making processes. In the Portuguese case, the students will have to know the main tools in the area of territorial management and planning.
Expected learning outcomes and competences to be acquired:
The students will have to understand the framework of the economic and social planning in the global scope of the support decision making processes; on the other hand, the students must understand the planning process, integrating it and developing specific activities.
Contents
1. Introduction. Economic and social development as territorial dimension.
2. Sistemática planning analisys.
3. Planning models: construction and utilization.
4. Planning: goals, meios and tools for the territorial development.
5. Planning as learning process and information diffusion.
6. Planning as a preparation process to the decision making.
7. Implementation, evaluation and control.
8. Planning in Portugal: politics and tools. The case of territory management.
2. Sistemática planning analisys.
3. Planning models: construction and utilization.
4. Planning: goals, meios and tools for the territorial development.
5. Planning as learning process and information diffusion.
6. Planning as a preparation process to the decision making.
7. Implementation, evaluation and control.
8. Planning in Portugal: politics and tools. The case of territory management.
Teaching Methods
Teaching methods:
Traditional exposition classes, seminars and conferences, combined with work developed individually by students (demonstration, readings) and group work (research, analysis of case studies, etc.).
Assessment methods:
A written test and a group essay to be developed throughout the semester and presented in the final day of contact. Each of these evaluation items has a weight of 50% in the final grade.
As an alternative to this evaluation scheme, the final grade may be obtained by performing a single written examination.
Traditional exposition classes, seminars and conferences, combined with work developed individually by students (demonstration, readings) and group work (research, analysis of case studies, etc.).
Assessment methods:
A written test and a group essay to be developed throughout the semester and presented in the final day of contact. Each of these evaluation items has a weight of 50% in the final grade.
As an alternative to this evaluation scheme, the final grade may be obtained by performing a single written examination.
