URBP 506 — Environmental Policy and Planning

Analytical and institutional approaches for understanding and addressing environmental issues at various scales; characteristics of environmental issues, science-policy-politics interactions relating to the environment, and implications for policy; sustainability, and the need for and challenges associated with interdisciplinary perspectives; externalities and their regulation; public goods; risk perception and implications; the political-institutional context and policy instruments; cost-benefit analysis; multiple-criteria decision-making approaches; multidimensional life-cycle analysis; policy implementation issues; conflict resolution; case studies.

• Rating: 5.00 out of 5 from 19 student reviews
• Difficulty: 3.00 out of 5
• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
• Department: Urban Planning
• Taught by: Madhav Govind Badami

Sections offered

• Section 001 (Seminar), Mon 11:35 am-2:25 pm — 3 seats open
• Section 002 (Seminar), Mon 11:35 am-2:25 pm — 0 seats open