BSc Planning and Real Estate

The Environment and Development Field Trip course unit involves a residential study tour to a UK city or region, or an international destination. Recent locations have included the Porto and the Douro Valley in Portugal, and Inverness and the Scottish Highlands. The field trip normally spans approximately 5 or 6 days in total. The trip provides an opportunity for the holistic study of a variety of interlinked issues related to planning, real estate and environmental management, and to compare experience in the study area and English cities and regions

• Assess the interrelationships between environmental, social and economic processes in the context of a region spanning urban and rural areas.
• Consider the ways in which environmental management strategies and planning policies have been formulated to address problems and harness opportunities in a complex and varied region. 
• Explore comparisons and contrasts with experience in UK regions and consider whether there are lessons to be drawn in respect of effective policy and governance.  

• Understand the key environmental, social and economic characteristics of the field trip study area.
• Identify the principal environmental, social and economic challenges and opportunities confronting environmental management, planning and real estate policymakers.
• Show knowledge of some of the ways in which policy interventions have been formulated to try to resolve environmental, social and economic problems or capitalise upon unrealised potential.
• Appreciate points of comparison between experience in the field trip study area and corresponding areas in the UK and internationally. 

• Understand the key environmental, social and economic characteristics of Porto and the Douro Valley and their interrelationships within a functional regional space.

• Identify the principal environmental, social and economic challenges and opportunities confronting environmental management, planning and real estate policymakers.
• Show knowledge of some of the ways in which policy interventions have been formulated to try to resolve environmental, social and economic problems or capitalise upon unrealised potential.

• Appreciate points of comparison between experience in Porto and the Douro Valley and corresponding areas in the UK and internationally.

• Team working
• Oral presentation skills

Group field trip presentation (25%)

Individual report (75%)

As you progress through the module you will receive verbal feedback on request, either at formally timetabled sessions or if you see the course tutor during consultation hours (or at other times).

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