Planning and Assessment
Code: 104252 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning | OB | 3 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jordi Nadal Tersa
- Email:
- jordi.nadal@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
This subject has no specific prerequisites. However, its teaching is designed for third year students and therefore it is assumed that the knowledge taught in the first and second year subjects has been acquired. It is necessary to have skill in the use of Geographical Information Systems. This last point is essential.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The main objective of this subject is for students to acquire the necessary knowledge to have a critical view of territorial planning and to be able to value the environmental content with which the territory is structured.
To achieve this main objective, the following objectives are proposed during the course:
- Analyze the concepts of Planning, Planning and Evaluation
- Evaluate mitigation and adaptation policies to climate change
- Develop and apply policies in applied cases
- Prepare a municipal plan
Competences
- Apply the basic regional, environmental and urban legal regulations for regional and environmental planning.
- Integrate the different social and environmental disciplines with a view to describing and interpreting the spatial dynamics linked to social, economic and environmental change.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Integrate economic, social and environmental information in regional planning instruments.
- List the basic regional, environmental and urban regulations corresponding to the government bodies responsible in Catalonia.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Content
Unit 1: Introduction to Planning, Planning and Evaluation
- Definition and fundamental concepts
- Importance of planning, planning and evaluation in different contexts
- Relationship between planning, planning and evaluation
Unit 2: Planning Process
- Stages of the planning process: diagnosis, formulation of objectives, selection of strategies, elaboration of action plans
- Tools and techniques used at each stage
- Factors to consider in planning: resources, constraints, actors involved
Unit 3: Planning
- Definition and scope of planning
- Planning methods and approaches: prospective, strategic, operational
- Preparation of work plans and programmes
Unit 4: Evaluation
- Concept and objectives of the evaluation
- Type of evaluation: formative, summative, ex ante, ex post
- Design of evaluation instruments: indicators, evaluation matrices, questionnaires, interviews, observation
Unit 5: Evaluation process
- Stages of the evaluation process: planning, data collection, data analysis, reporting, feedback
- Data collection methods: quantitative, qualitative, mixed
- Analysis and interpretation of results
Unit 6: Use of Evaluation
- Use of evaluation results for decision making
- Feedback and continuous improvement
- Communication of the results of the evaluation to different audiences
Unit 7: Ethics in Planning, Planning and Evaluation
- Ethical considerations in the planning and evaluation process
- Relevant ethical principles and standards
- Social and professional responsibility in planning, planning and evaluation
Unit 8: Practical Cases and Case Studies
- Analysis and discussion of real cases related to planning, planning and evaluation
- Application of the knowledge and skills acquired in specific situations
Topic 9: Trends and Challenges in Planning, Planning and Evaluation
- New approaches and approaches in the discipline
- Emerging technologies and their impact on planning and evaluation
- Current and future challenges in the field of planning, planning and evaluation
Topic 10: The local level in climate change mitigation and adaptation policies
- Covenant of Mayors
- Mayors for Adaptation
- Mayors for Climate and Energy
Topic 11: Development of mitigation and adaptation actions to climate change
- Municipal plans to combat climate change
- Municipal emergency plans due to drought
Methodology
In the first sessions of the subject, the theoretical training is done to give way to a field trip and the preparation of a municipal plan to fight against climate change or an emergency plan for harvesting that will be followed in the tutorials.
At the beginning of the course, the teacher will explain the protocol of measures and good practices for field trips.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Report preparation | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Teaching support to students in discussion forums | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Monitoring of practices and reports | 25 | 1 | 2, 1, 4, 3 |
| Recognition of the study area | 10 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of materials and study | 9 | 0.36 | 4, 3 |
| Writing the course report | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 4 |
Assessment
The evaluation of the subject is based on:
- Face-to-face examination of the theoretical contents
- Preparation of a course work
- Public presentation of the work
- Field trip
- Delivery of the certificate of the online activity of the library
All evaluable activities can be recovered, except for presentations made in the classroom, which do not have the possibility of being made outside the initial order, the field trip, which for obvious reasons is only done on the days it is scheduled, and tutorials.
To pass the subject you must have a minimum grade of 3.5 in each of the three evaluable activities, regardless of the weight they have in the final grade, and have attended inexcusably the field trip and tutorials.
The Not evaluable qualification will be obtained if no activity has been delivered or only the first activity has been delivered. Therefore, having delivered two or more activities implies that the course has been followed and the qualification to be obtained will be passed (10-5) or suspended (4.9-0).
Finally, the student must take into account the face-to-face activities of compulsory attendance, without which he will not be able to have the final evaluation of the subject:
- Attendance to tutorials
- Field trip
- Preparation of the course work
- Public presentation of the work
- Evaluation and where appropriate also re-evaluation
At the time of carrying out each evaluation activity, the teacher will inform the students (Moodle) of the procedure and date of review of the grades.
The copying or plagiarism of material, both in the case of works and in the case of exams, constitute a crime that will be sanctioned with a zero to the activity. In case of recidivism, the whole subject will be suspended. We remind you that it is considered a "copy" a work that reproduces all or a large part of the work of another colleague. "Plagiarism" is the fact of presenting all or part of a text of an author as one's own, without citing the sources, whether on paper or in digital format. See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html
This subject does not include single assessment
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance and active participation in tutorials and field work | 20% | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Course work | 45% | 12 | 0.48 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Exam on contents taught in the theoretical sessions | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 3 |
| Public presentation of the work | 15% | 4 | 0.16 | 4, 3 |
Bibliography
Bibliography
Abellà Masdeu, Ester. SIG per al pacte d'alcaldies. Eina de consulta i presa de decisions. 2020. (1373 Màster Universitari en Geoinformació) <https://ddd.uab.cat/record/231402> [Consulta: 24 juny 2023].
Generalitat de Catalunya i Institut d'Estudis Catalans. (2016). Tercer informe sobre el canvi Climàtic a Catalunya. <http://bit.ly/2kL9PR9> [Consulta: 24 juny 2023].
Webgraphy
Software
To write the report it is necessary to use the GIS tools that the student may have on his computer or use the software available in the computer rooms of the faculty