Description

The course will discuss the need for incorporating coastal and marine issues in land use strategies. Different land use planning strategies and models at different geographical scales will be explored and discussed. The class will participate in a simulated planning process set up by the instructor where complicated management issues that involve conflicts between resource users will be solved. Other planning techniques introduced in the course include: Land suitability analysis, consensus based planning and methods to design and implement land use planning processes.

Learning outcomes

• Students will gain a good knowledge and understanding of different policy instruments and possible outcomes related to planning of marine and coastal regions.
• Students will be able to approach problem areas using a variety of planning tools, from strategic level programs to detailed land use plans, when confronted with real-world planning problems in a local geographical setting.
• Students will gain practical skills for use in the planning process of coastal and marine regions.

Assessment

Learning processes include lectures and seminars, reading assignments, land use decision-making simulations, studio group work on local planning projects, and individual papers on special topics.

 

Student work is assessed by means of seminar activities (10%), a group report (40%), and one individual paper (3500-4000 words) (50%).

Instructor

Morten Edvardsen, born in Moss, Norway, 1945. Norwegian citizen.
Professor of urban and regional planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.
Email: morten.edvardsen@umb.no

First degree in Civil Engineering (Idaho, USA). Studies in Policy analysis and implementation in Oslo and Lund/Uppsala.

Visiting Scholar / Visiting Professor at London School of Economics (UK), University of Oregon (USA), University of Portsmouth (UK), and Aalborg University (Denmark).

Research interests: Resource policy studies, risk analysis, planning evaluation.

Teaching at UMB: local planning, planning theory, coastal zone and river basin planning.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap

 

Guest lecturer

Further reading