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PLAN 620 – Department of Urban & Regional Planning UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Spring 2013 PLAN 620 Environmental Planning and Policy - DRAFT Spring 2013 Wednesdays 9 am-11:45 am Saunders 116 Daniele Spirandelli Assistant Professor [email protected] Office Hours: Wednesdays 1 – 3pm or by appointment, Saunders 107c Course Description: This course provides an overview of the current state of the knowledge regarding urbanization and environmental change, including climate change, the transformation of landscapes, altered hydrological processes, and the loss of biodiversity. This course will explore planning strategies and policy tools designed to minimize the environmental impacts of urban patterns, human behaviors and decisions, and highlight innovative approaches used in environmental decision making and plan-making. We will use Hawaii as our case study for examining the topics while assessing the degree to which the science, programs and tools can be generalized to other locations. This course employs a wide variety of formats to engage students in the material, including lectures, guest speakers, small group discussions, field trips, student response pieces and activities (both in and out of class) such as a student led debate, and a final case study project and presentation. Student Learning Outcomes: On completing the course students should be able to: • Describe the history of environmental planning and the major environmental issues facing Hawaii, the nation and the world • Understand the key driving forces and policy trends effecting approaches to planning the environment • Understand the basic science behind how urbanization effects ecosystem processes and functions • Link theory to the practice of environmental planning and know a set of tools and methods used in environmental assessment, analysis and management • Learn to critically assess and summarize scientific research and reports for the purpose of planning Course Requirements: Final Research Project/Presentation: 40% Use one of the conceptual frameworks (or adopt one of your own, but must explicitly address a coupled human-ecological system) to frame an environmental problem of your choice – can elaborate upon one of the themes discussed in class or can address one of your own selection. Your paper must incorporate a substantial summary of the literature – i.e. what do we know about the topic? Where are there contradictions or gaps in the literature? What are the implications for environmental planning and what are some strategies or tools that might address the problem? You must draw from major peer-reviewed journals – including JPER and JAPA, but you may also draw from Ecosystems, Urban Ecosystems, Landscape Ecology, or some other relevant journal. You will be expected to hand in a topic proposal with an annotated bibliography and formally present your study to the class. The project grade will be broken up in the following manner: Topic proposal/annotated bibliography: Final presentation: Final paper: 10% 10% 20% In-class Literature Summary: 25% Each student will be responsible for preparing and presenting a formal summary of an article from the week’s readings. Students will sign up for a class reading at the beginning of the term and will be expected to distribute a written summary of the article to the rest of the class and lead a discussion around it. Guidelines on how to write an article summary will be made available on Laulima. Assignments: 20% • Policy brief on a current/local environmental issue • Calculate your ecological footprint • Prepare for & participate in class debate Participation: 15% Students come to class prepared to participate, ask questions, lead discussions and give presentations based on the readings, individual and group assignments. PLAN 620 – Department of Urban & Regional Planning UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII Spring 2013 Course Outline (Draft – subject to change) Date Topic Lectures/Readings Jan 9 Syllabus Rationales for Environmental Planning/Policy UH Online History of Environmental Planning Journal/Laulima Conceptual Frameworks Jan 16 Integrating Urbanization and Global Environmental Change humanCoupled human-natural systems & regional landscape environmental change science systems Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems Urban Ecology Urban Systems Jan 23 Urban Urban Flows, foot print analysis, urban ecological Metabolism services Environmental Impact Assessment & Environmental Impact Statements – the role & limitations of the environmental review process (Scott Glenn, Environmental Planner, to be confirmed) Jan 30 Field trip Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Urban Patterns and Ecosystem Processes Feb 6 Urban Climate Atmospheric processes Greenhouse Gas Regulations – Hawaii climate change solutions/policies. Environmental Taxes/Cap-and-Trade Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (Makena Coffman – confirmed) Feb 13 Urban Hydrology Urban drainage Water supply, wastewater Ala Wai Watershed Project (Cindy Barger, USACE – confirmed) New Honolulu Stormwater regulations: (Gerald Takayesu - confirmed) Feb 20 Hawai’i Biodiversity Biodiversity and conservation planning The Nature Conservancy Eco-region planning (Sam Gon, The Nature Conservancy – confirmed) Feb 27 Urban Geology Urban Soils Role of Soils in nutrient dynamics Hawaii sedimentation processes (Speaker - to be confirmed) Mar 6 Urban Coasts Coastal Processes and ecosystems Coral Reefs Coastal erosion - Dolan Eversole, Sea Grant College Program (confirmed) Mar 13 Urban Forests Forest ecosystem services: Carbon stocks Water capture Habitat Mar 20 Urban Ecological Design & Planning Green Infrastructure Buffers Lauren Roth – Roth Ecological Design – to be confirmed Mar 27 SPRING BREAK April 3 Science, Uncertainty, and Environmental policy-making Long-range planning Uncertainty & adapting to climate change (Kem Lowery – to be confirmed) Webinar – CA. Climate Adaptation http://www.cailg.org/SCLN/ClimateAdaptationWebinar April 10 Evidence-based planning and policy-making What is evidence based planning? Best Available Science Ecosystem-based Management (Speaker – to be confirmed) April 17 Community based Env. planning April 24 May 1 May 7 Trade-offs of ecosystem services Community values Local culture & knowledge InVEST & Kamehameha Schools Student Presentations Student Presentations Final Term Paper due by noon. Via email AND a hardcopy in instructor’s DURP box.