Degree | Type | Year |
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2503710 Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning | OT | 4 |
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There are no specific requirements to take this course.
This course offers a critical approach to local and territorial development from the reality that imposes for the territory and its population three current challenges: 1) the climate and environmental crisis, 2) the growing inequalities in the distribution of wealth; and 3) the fourth revolution linked to the role of new technologies and artificial intelligence.
The course has three main objectives: 1) to critically examine the concept of development in general and local / regional development from different theories and practices, 2) to understand the dynamics of the local economy within the conditions imposed by economic, environmental and energy changes , 3) explore new economic models that raise local development from an ethical and eco-centered position. Classes will combine theoretical, practical and discussion format.
1) The current challenges of local development: environmental, social, and economic crisis.
2) The concept of local development. Origins, evolution, and new formulation.
3) The Community Economies in the Anthropocene era. Case studies and experiences.
4) The policies and strategic lines of urban development of the last decades.
5) Local development linked to tourism: experiences, opportunities, and deficiencies.
6) Local development linked to the knowledge economy and the smart city: experiences, opportunities, and shortcomings.
7) Local development and climate change.
8) The role of the public sector in local development.
9) Local development and sustainability.
10) DLT and policy making. The programs PADL and AODL.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Field Trips | 8 | 0.32 | CM23 |
Practicum | 9 | 0.36 | CM23, SM27 |
Theoretical Classes | 31.5 | 1.26 | KM36 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Practical exercices and research project | 20 | 0.8 | |
Tutorial | 5 | 0.2 | CM22 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Project | 40 | 1.6 | CM22, CM23 |
Readings | 20 | 0.8 | CM22 |
Study | 15 | 0.6 | CM22 |
Theoretical classes will be complemented with fieldwork on real research projects, which will allow students to reflect on the problems and difficulties posed by local development.
Students will have to build in parallel to the teaching sessions an original research project as part of the training process in this subject. It will be compulsory to read a series of basic texts on theories in local development and practical experiences.
The learning process and acquisition of skills will be supervised by the teacher through individual and/or group tutorials. The teachers of the subject will be available to students to resolve doubts and follow the evolution of the aforementioned process of learning and acquisition of skills.
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.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class activity and case studies | 10 | 0 | 0 | CM22, CM23, KM36, SM27 |
Class activity and individual case studies | 20 | 0 | 0 | KM36, SM27 |
Fieldwork report | 10 | 0 | 0 | CM22, CM23, KM36, SM27 |
Term paper | 20 | 0 | 0 | CM22, CM23, KM36, SM27 |
Test | 40 | 1.5 | 0.06 | CM23, KM36 |
The evaluation of the subject will be based on the continuous evaluation of the process of acquiring knowledge and skills by the student and will consist of:
a. Final exam (40% grade)
b. Field work report (10%)
c. Attendance in class, discussion and participation in the tasks proposed in class (10%)
d. Preparation of research project and presentation in class (20%)
e. Completion of mandatory practical exercises. These must be done individually and during class time. The exercises entail the delivery of a document for evaluation (20%).
The final exam must be passed in order to have the right to have the rest of the qualifications considered.
Field trip is mandatory.
When it is considered that the student has not been able to provide enough evaluation evidence (30%) in the record, this subject will be recorded as non-evaluable.
plagiarism
The copying or plagiarism of material, both in the case of assignments and in the case of exams, constitutes a crime that will be sanctioned with a zero in the activity. In case of recidivism, the entire subject will be suspended.
Remember that work that reproduces all or a large part of another colleague's work is considered a "copy". "Plagiarism" is the act of presenting all or part of an author's text 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.
Unique assessment
This subject does not provide for the single assessment system.
Additional bibliography will be added during the course.
Optional bibliography:
ALBURQUERQUE, Francisco (2013) "Economía del Desarrollo y Desarrollo Territorial" http://www.delalburquerque.es/images/subidas/E%20Desarrollo%20y%20Desarrollo%20Territorial%203.0.pdf
BLAKELY Eduard J. and BRADSHAW, Ted K. (2003) Planning Local Economic Development. London: Sage Publications.
CASELLAS, Antònia (2018) "Nous Reptes, Reflexions i Propostes per un Desenvolupament Local Sostenible" Col.lecció Eines. Elements d'Innovació i Estratègia. Diputació de Barcelona. 21p. https://www1.diba.cat/llibreria/pdf/60118.pdf
CASELLAS, Antònia (2014) " Desenvolupament local i territori. Del creixement indiscriminat a la viabilitat social i econòmica" Diputació de Barcelona. Area de Desenvolupament Econòmic Ocupació. http://www1.diba.cat/llibreria/pdf/54052.pdf
CASELLAS, A. (2010). La geografía crítica y el discurso de la sostenibilidad: perspectivas y acciones. DAG 56/3, 575-583.
ESTELA, Oriol (2020) Repensar las agencias de desarrollo económico local en la crisis de la covid-19. Asamblea general de Redel.
GIBSON-GRAHAM Julie Katherine, CAMERON, Jenny and HEALY, Stephan (2017) Retomenos la economia. Una guia ética para transformar nuestras comunidades. Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
GIBSON-GRAHAM Julie Katherine and ROELVINK, Gerda (2010) "An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene". Antipode, 41(s1), p. 320-346.
POLI, Corrado (2010) "Sustainable Development: from Fallacy to Fraud", Human Geography. A new Radical Journal, Vol. 3 ,2, p. 63-82.
Others:
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Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PCAM) Field practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |