Content (Syllabus outline)

Introduction: topics, problems, concepts of environmental planning.

History and development of environmental planning: an overview of influential ideas.

Protection approaches and strategies: restoration and prevention, standardization and optimization.

Technological standards and norms, spatial standards – reservations.

Optimization as a tool for environmental protection: environmental aspects of spatial planning: approaches and methods.

Spatial analysis: concepts and methods; vulnerability studies and non-conflict corridors.

Protection issues in developing alternative planning proposals.

Evaluation of alternative planning proposals: comparative assessment of alternative options. 

Strategic environmental impact assessments, territorial impact assessments, sustainability impact assessments.

Decision making: social framework, decision strategies, multicriteria methods

Environmental planning within the planning and management legal framework and regulations

Sectoral and integrated approaches in environmental management: management of protected areas, management of natural resources

Prerequisites

- enrollment in the study year,
- the condition for taking the oral exam is performed on the exercises (presence and a positively assessed product) and a sufficient number of points from written assignments (essays)