School Of Social Sciences And PsychologyIntroduction to Environmental PlanningWestern Sydney University Unit Code: DN102A.2
Discipline: URBAN DESIGN AND REGIONAL PLANNING
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 1
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit is an overview of public environmental planning as practice and as discipline. It explains briefly what environmental planning is and the way it is done. The context is the use and management of Australia's land resources -- all land, public and private, and all land uses. Particular attention is given to the natural resources of New South Wales and its land management statutes. The intended outcome is that students will be able to give an account of environmental planning both as part of the New South Wales government's land management policy and as a discipline. Topics include land use and civil society, metropolitan strategies, local plans, rational choice, ethics and environmental planning, ecosystems and human population, land management policy, environmental planning law, development control and land management, and land use problems and goals.