ENVP106 (HAM)
Introduction to Environmental Planning
20 points

Lecturers: TBA, Pip Wallace and Angeline Greensill
Emails: pwallace@waikato.ac.nz and ngahina@waikato.ac.nz

Paper description

This is a core paper in the Bachelor of Environmental Planning. It provides an introduction to Environmental Planning. The philosophy, history and theories of planning will be taught in order to provide students with an overview of the nature and purpose of planning. Sustainable resource development approaches and debates are considered within the context of integrated environmental resource planning. The paper explores and applies planning theories and methods to selected resource problems or issues in New Zealand.

The specific attributes that successful students will acquire are:

• Fundamental skills for a career in planning;
• An understanding that there are many meanings associated with planning;
• Knowledge of Maori, contemporary and historical issues in planning;
• An understanding of the politics and policy-making processes;
• An understanding of the interaction between society and economics, notions of sustainability and the impact of humans on environments and each other;
• Practical planning at different spatial scales.

Assessment

Internal assessment to examination ratio is 3:2. 

Prerequisites

None.

Required Text

A reading manual will be available for purchase from Waikato Print.

Timetable and Organisation:

Refer to the Online Timetable.