Sustainable Development and Planning
Course objectives
General outcomes The course aims to provide the knowledge bases relating to territorial, urban, and environmental planning and management in consideration of the more general sustainability objectives, as well as the ability to develop planning and governance of the territory according to appropriate sustainability criteria and with reference to SDG - Sustainable Development Goals. The general training objectives of the course are part of the broader ones of the teaching path of the CdS, for which it contributes to providing, as regards the aspects related to territorial and environmental planning, suitable training so that the graduate can operate in the fields of adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change, especially in urban contexts. Specific outcomes Knowledge and understanding: Students who have passed the exam will be able to tackle the problems related to the organization of the settlement and the management of the territory and its transformations as a function of the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its territorial effects and more generally sustainability, also in consideration of the populations who live there and their involvement. Applying knowledge and understanding: Students who have passed the exam will be able to carry out an assessment of the complex issues related to the sustainable management of urban and territorial systems and to apply the different design strategies in relation to adequate urban and territorial structures. Making judgement: Students who have passed the exam will also acquire independent judgment with respect to the potential impacts of the settlement systems with respect to their sustainability and the possible practicable paths in the governance of the territory. Learning skills: The carrying out of exercises and project paths, both individual and group, will also contribute to the development by the student of independent learning skills with respect to the methods and tools to be used to address the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its effects. territorial, with reference to specific contexts and innovative solutions, to be used in response to emerging problems. The acquisition of the above skills will help build training that allows students to update themselves continuously, independently and in depth
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CARLO CELLAMARE
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
1. Introduction to the course:
Approaches to sustainable development and planning. Self-sustainable local development
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
2. Territory:
Definitions and concepts (territory, ecosystem, basin, landscape, etc.)
Territorial and environmental analysis. Systemic approach
Land use
3. Planning:
Definitions, concepts, and approaches (planning, policies, programmes, government and governance, etc.)
Environmental planning. Regional planning. Community planning
Participatory processes
Planning tools and planning systems
UE policies
4. Innovative approaches and tools to sustainable development and planning:
Ecological networks. Green and blue infrastructures
“River Contracts”
Peri-urban sustainable agriculture. Agricultural parks
Sustainable urban regeneration and local development of the peripheries
Environmental risks
Environmental indicators and assessment
NBS – Nature Based Solutions
Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basics of urban, territorial, and environmental analysis
Knowledge of the fundamental issues on sustainable development
Books
Lecture notes, articles and handouts provided by the teacher, available on elearning course website
Teaching mode
The course is divided in lectures and a large part of exercise, fieldwork and planning and design work. The lessons are distributed on three days a week.
Each lesson consists of a first part of lectures on the contents of the course and a second part in which case studies are presented, in-depth (even in operational terms) the topics treated in a more theoretical way, exercises are held.
The students must carry out a more projectual part which will become part of the final exam and consists in the discussion of a planning tool or of different planning instruments converging on the same territory and their foreseen or foreseeable territorial effects, also in relation to Sustainable Development. Everything must be referred to the territorial, legislative and planning context. Starting from the second half of the course, after the illustration and the explanation of the procedures for carrying out the project, the second part of the lessons will also be dedicated to the verification, discussion and deepening of the students' work.
Some lessons will have a seminar character, inviting scholars, administrators, experts and planners to illustrate interesting case studies.
Laboratory: Planning workshop activities on the areas affected by the course
Guest Lectures: On the items of sustainable development and planning with professors from Italian and foreign Universities
Frequency
Attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. In particular, it is important to follow in the classroom the activity illustrative, explanatory and evaluative of the project work
Exam mode
The evaluation consists of two parts: the design processing part and the evaluation of learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
As regards the part of the project elaboration, this will be evaluated already during the course and the access to the final exam will be allowed when the completion of the project work will be verified. The design work is by group (2-3 components), but the contribution of each component must be recognizable. It is composed, inter alia, of a report and a presentation, elaborated according to the indications provided in the classroom.
During the exam, in the first part some questions of in-depth analysis and critical reading of the project-type work will be carried out, while in the second part some questions will be asked to verify the learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
The two parts will weigh each for 50% of the final score of the exam, which then will correspond to the average between the votes attributed to the two parties.
The critical capacity and autonomy of the student will be particularly appreciated.
The presentations of the project work will be used to evaluate the exhibition, communication and argumentative skills.
Bibliography
Fitoussi J.-P., Laurent É. (2008), La nouvelle écologie politique. Economie et développement humain, Éditions du Seuil et La République des Idées, Paris [Trad. it.: La nuova ecologia politica. Economia e sviluppo umano, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2009]
Jonas H. (first edition, 1979), Das Prinzip Verantwortung, [trad. it.: Jonas H. (2009), Il principio responsabilità. Un'etica per la civiltà tecnologica, Einaudi, Torino]
Beck U. (first edition, 1992), Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity [trad. it.: Beck U., (2013), La società del rischio. Verso una seconda modernità, Carocci, Roma]
Lesson mode
The course is divided in lectures and a large part of exercise, fieldwork and planning and design work. The lessons are distributed on three days a week.
Each lesson consists of a first part of lectures on the contents of the course and a second part in which case studies are presented, in-depth (even in operational terms) the topics treated in a more theoretical way, exercises are held.
The students must carry out a more projectual part which will become part of the final exam and consists in the discussion of a planning tool or of different planning instruments converging on the same territory and their foreseen or foreseeable territorial effects, also in relation to Sustainable Development. Everything must be referred to the territorial, legislative and planning context. Starting from the second half of the course, after the illustration and the explanation of the procedures for carrying out the project, the second part of the lessons will also be dedicated to the verification, discussion and deepening of the students' work.
Some lessons will have a seminar character, inviting scholars, administrators, experts and planners to illustrate interesting case studies.
Laboratory: Planning workshop activities on the areas affected by the course
Guest Lectures: On the items of sustainable development and planning with professors from Italian and foreign Universities
CARLO CELLAMARE
Lecturers' profile
Program - Frequency - Exams
Course program
1. Introduction to the course:
Approaches to sustainable development and planning. Self-sustainable local development
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
2. Territory:
Definitions and concepts (territory, ecosystem, basin, landscape, etc.)
Territorial and environmental analysis. Systemic approach
Land use
3. Planning:
Definitions, concepts, and approaches (planning, policies, programmes, government and governance, etc.)
Environmental planning. Regional planning. Community planning
Participatory processes
Planning tools and planning systems
UE policies
4. Innovative approaches and tools to sustainable development and planning:
Ecological networks. Green and blue infrastructures
“River Contracts”
Peri-urban sustainable agriculture. Agricultural parks
Sustainable urban regeneration and local development of the peripheries
Environmental risks
Environmental indicators and assessment
NBS – Nature Based Solutions
Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basics of urban, territorial, and environmental analysis
Knowledge of the fundamental issues on sustainable development
Books
Lecture notes, articles and handouts provided by the teacher, available on elearning course website
Teaching mode
The course is divided in lectures and a large part of exercise, fieldwork and planning and design work. The lessons are distributed on three days a week.
Each lesson consists of a first part of lectures on the contents of the course and a second part in which case studies are presented, in-depth (even in operational terms) the topics treated in a more theoretical way, exercises are held.
The students must carry out a more projectual part which will become part of the final exam and consists in the discussion of a planning tool or of different planning instruments converging on the same territory and their foreseen or foreseeable territorial effects, also in relation to Sustainable Development. Everything must be referred to the territorial, legislative and planning context. Starting from the second half of the course, after the illustration and the explanation of the procedures for carrying out the project, the second part of the lessons will also be dedicated to the verification, discussion and deepening of the students' work.
Some lessons will have a seminar character, inviting scholars, administrators, experts and planners to illustrate interesting case studies.
Laboratory: Planning workshop activities on the areas affected by the course
Guest Lectures: On the items of sustainable development and planning with professors from Italian and foreign Universities
Frequency
Attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. In particular, it is important to follow in the classroom the activity illustrative, explanatory and evaluative of the project work
Exam mode
The evaluation consists of two parts: the design processing part and the evaluation of learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
As regards the part of the project elaboration, this will be evaluated already during the course and the access to the final exam will be allowed when the completion of the project work will be verified. The design work is by group (2-3 components), but the contribution of each component must be recognizable. It is composed, inter alia, of a report and a presentation, elaborated according to the indications provided in the classroom.
During the exam, in the first part some questions of in-depth analysis and critical reading of the project-type work will be carried out, while in the second part some questions will be asked to verify the learning related to the theoretical parts and the critical study of the course.
The two parts will weigh each for 50% of the final score of the exam, which then will correspond to the average between the votes attributed to the two parties.
The critical capacity and autonomy of the student will be particularly appreciated.
The presentations of the project work will be used to evaluate the exhibition, communication and argumentative skills.
Bibliography
Fitoussi J.-P., Laurent É. (2008), La nouvelle écologie politique. Economie et développement humain, Éditions du Seuil et La République des Idées, Paris [Trad. it.: La nuova ecologia politica. Economia e sviluppo umano, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2009]
Jonas H. (first edition, 1979), Das Prinzip Verantwortung, [trad. it.: Jonas H. (2009), Il principio responsabilità. Un'etica per la civiltà tecnologica, Einaudi, Torino]
Beck U. (first edition, 1992), Risk Society, Towards a New Modernity [trad. it.: Beck U., (2013), La società del rischio. Verso una seconda modernità, Carocci, Roma]
Lesson mode
The course is divided in lectures and a large part of exercise, fieldwork and planning and design work. The lessons are distributed on three days a week.
Each lesson consists of a first part of lectures on the contents of the course and a second part in which case studies are presented, in-depth (even in operational terms) the topics treated in a more theoretical way, exercises are held.
The students must carry out a more projectual part which will become part of the final exam and consists in the discussion of a planning tool or of different planning instruments converging on the same territory and their foreseen or foreseeable territorial effects, also in relation to Sustainable Development. Everything must be referred to the territorial, legislative and planning context. Starting from the second half of the course, after the illustration and the explanation of the procedures for carrying out the project, the second part of the lessons will also be dedicated to the verification, discussion and deepening of the students' work.
Some lessons will have a seminar character, inviting scholars, administrators, experts and planners to illustrate interesting case studies.
Laboratory: Planning workshop activities on the areas affected by the course
Guest Lectures: On the items of sustainable development and planning with professors from Italian and foreign Universities
- Lesson code10600300
- Academic year2025/2026
- CourseTerritory's management and enhancement
- CurriculumApplicativo-progettuale
- Year2nd year
- Semester1st semester
- SSDICAR/20
- CFU6