Námskeiðslýsing

The course will discuss the need for incorporating coastal and marin issues in land use startegies. 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 sete 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.

Hæfniviðmið

At the end of the course, students will:

• have gained a good knowledge and understanding of different policy instruments and possible outcomes related to planning of marine and coastal regions
• 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
• have gained practical skills for use in the planning process of coastal and marine regions

Námsmat

Learning processses include lectures and seminars, reading assignmentsm, 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 (3500-400 words) (50%).

Kennari

Patricia Manuel is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University, she holds second appointments in the School of Occupational Therapy and the Environment, Society and Sustainability Program.

She earned her B.A. Hons in geography from Carleton University (Ottawa), her M.Sc. in physical geography from McGill University (Montreal) and her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary (Environmental) Studies from Dalhousie University (Halifax). She is a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Licensed Professional Planners Association of Nova Scotia. Patricia works mainly in the areas of environmental planning and community planning.

 

Her teaching includes theory and practice courses in landscape analysis, landscape ecology, geology and land use planning, environmental management, coastal zone management and studios (project-based courses) in environmental planning and policy and plan making. She regularly supervizes graduate (Master of Planning) and undergraduate (Community Design) student thesis and major independent projects in topics relating to environmental and community planning. She has also taught courses in community design principles for health professionals. She focuses her research and professional practice mainly on wetlands interpretation and management, watershed planning and management and climate change adaptation planning. She has worked extensively in community-based environmental planning with watershed groups and has participated in working groups that have included the Halifax Harbour Solutions project (sewage management), writing the management plan for the McNab and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park (Halifax Harbour) and providing experties.

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