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Urban sustainability

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Base Knowledge

Non applicable

Teaching Methodologies

Learning methodologies include lectures, problem-solving (individually and in groups), oral and written presentations

Learning Results

-to understand the concepts associated with sustainability and sustainable development, especially in the times we’re living in 

-to know how to apply the idea of sustainability in the urban environment by working different components: urban design, land use, transportation, energy, economy, governance, etc 

-to develop competencies of analysing the urban environment at local level, from a sustainability point of view, and to put forward proposals for its improvement 
-to develop general competencies in the areas of communication, investigation and self-learning, evaluation and decision making

Program

  • Sustainable development and its 3 dimensions: Economy, Social, Environment
  • Environment and climate change
  • Urban natural risks
  • Circular economy: the basics
  • The Sustainable Development Goals – also in Portugal
  • Urban sustainability in practice: land use and urban design, mobility and transportation, public spaces, buildings, energy and material use, infrastructure and urban services, governance
  • Sustainable cities: the national and international agenda; cities of the future

Curricular Unit Teachers

Susana Catarina Neves Meneses

Grading Methods

The evaluation will be essencially continuous, based on different tasks, assignments and projects done throughout the semester. These will represent up to 15 points (in 20), the remaining ones being achieved in the final moment of evaluation.

The students that will attend more than 90% of the classes will earn an extra 1 point.

For special cases, a final exam is possible


    Internship(s)

    NAO

    Bibliography

    Ponte da Silva, Graça (2008), Forma urbana e sustentabilidade, in Prospectiva e Planeamento, vol. 15. Departamento de Prospectiva e Planeamento e Relações Internacionais do Ministério da Economia

    Madureira, Helena (2006), Na procura de formas urbanas sustentáveis: a necessidade de contextualização geográfica in Eixo Atlantico. Revista da Eurorregiao Galicia-Norte de Portugal, no 10, Xullo-Decembro

    Paro, Roberta (2011), Cidades sustentáveis: alguns enfoques e fatores críticos, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Sustentabilidade na Construção. Fundação Dom Cabral

    ONU-HABITAT (2009), Planificación de Ciudades Sostenibles: Orientacones de Políticas. Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos. Londres

    Wheeler, S. M., & Beatley, T. (2014). Sustainable Urban Development Reader. Routledge

    Ministério do Ambiente, Ordenamento do Território e Energia (2015), Cidades Sustentáveis 2020, Direção Geral do Território

    Centro de Informação Regional das Nações Unidas para a Europa Ocidental, Guia sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável-17 Objetivos para mudar o nosso Mundo (2016)