Base Knowledge
Knowledge of Geographical Information Systems
Teaching Methodologies
The contents are taught in theoretical-practical classes where students apply the theoretical concepts to solve concrete problems. There are also tutorial classes that allow learning to be more tailored to the individual needs of students.
Learning Results
This Curricular Unit will enable students with the knowledge needed to adress problems of land use planning and having skills to participate in multidisciplinary teams that carry out studies of land use planning.
Students should acquire the following skills
1. to Know the organizational structure and legal instruments governing the processes of territorial planning ;
2. to Know the theoretical foundations and methodologies needed to contextualize from an environmental, social and economic point of view a particular spatial planning problem
3. to Know and uses methods and techniques of spatial analysis necessary for allocation studies or other planning problems.
Program
1 Introduction to spatial planning, fundamental concepts
2. Spatial planning seen as the spatial translation of economic, social and environmental policies.
2. . Organizational structure and instruments of territorial management in Portugal, with emphasis on regional and local planning instruments.
3 Fundamental concepts of ecologically based planning.
4 Methods and techniques of spatial analysis in GIS environment for the TO.
5 Suitability models
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
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