URBP 506. Environmental Policy and Planning.
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URBP 506
Environmental Policy and Planning.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Urban Planning (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.
- (3-0-6)
- Restriction: This course is open to students in U3 and above
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