| CODE | SPI5403 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Human Behaviour and the Environment | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Spatial Planning and Infrastructure | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will consider the impacts of human behaviour on cultural heritage, the natural heritage, and public health. In the case of cultural heritage, Issues of ethics will be discussed in terms of cultural significance and impacts to set of values closely tied to the heritage in question. Methodologies of cost-benefit analysis will be used to assess cases of presumption in favour of sustainable development within sites or areas of historic and cultural importance. In the case of the natural environment the students will discuss in detail, mainly through case studies, the relationship between human beings and the natural environment (with respect to both bio-diversity and natural resources) and the implications of the effects of specific types of human activities such as agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, and transport. In the case of public health, the students will examine the links between the human activities and public health, by looking at how issues like transport; air, noise, and water pollution; green/open spaces or the lack of such spaces; housing, community participation/social isolation impact on human health. There will also be a discussion on how spatial planning can condition human activity and promote, or otherwise, good health, e.g. through physical activity and social interaction. Study-unit Aims The study-unit is intended to expose the students to the type of issues and problems that the practice of spatial planning is expected to address, and to indicate to them the importance that should be attached to the types impacts that spatial plans and policies may have on different environmental resources and human beings. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. analyse the implications of specific types of human behaviour on specific environmental resources and on human beings; and 2. attain an understanding of the role which spatial planning [and policy making] have to play in order to provide for the proper management and protection of cultural and natural resources and the health of the public. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. participate in teams, initially as junior members and after gaining experience as coordinators, assigned to assess the implications of alternative proposals for sectoral or spatial plans or policies, or of specific projects. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites (Australia ICOMOS),. (1999). The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance. Retrieved from Australia ICOMOS: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/BURRA-CHARTER-1999_charter-only.pdf Avrami, E., Mason, R., & de la Torre, M. (Eds.). (2000). Values and Heritage Conservation. Los Angeles: The Getty Consrvation Institute. Retrieved from http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/valuesrpt.pdf Cassar, M. (2009). Sustainable Heritage: Challenges and Strategies for the Twenty-First Century, APT Bulletin. Journal of Preservation Technology, 40(1), 3-11. Retrieved from http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/18790/ Clark, K. (2001). Informed Conservation: Understanding Historic Buildings and their Landscapes for Conservation. London: English Heritage. Clark, K. (2005). Working with conservation management plans. Retrieved from The Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC): http://www.ihbc.org.uk/context_archive/91/kateclark/kc2.htm Commission on Architecture and The Built Environment (CABE). (2009). Sustainable places for health and well-being. Retrieved from National Archives: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110118095356/http:/www.cabe.org.uk/files/future-health.pdf Diederen, A. (2010). Global Resource Depletion. Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers. Donaldson, L. J., & Donaldson, R. J. (2003). Essential Public Health (Second Revised ed.). Petroc Press. Donaldson, L. J., & Scally, G. (2009). Donaldsons' Essential Public Health (Third Revised ed.). Milton Keynes: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. English Heritage. (2005). The Heritage Dividend Methodology: Measuring the Impact of Heritage Projects. Retrieved from English Heritage: Historic Environment Local Management: http://www.helm.org.uk/upload/pdf/Heritage-Dividend-Methodology.pdf English Heritage. (2012). Conservation Principles. Retrieved from English Heritage: Conservation Principles: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/conservation-principles Fielden, B. M., & Jokilehto, J. (1998). Management Guidelines for World Cultural Heritage Sites. Rome: ICCROM. Geddes, I., Allen, J., Allen, M., & Morrisey, L. (n.d.). The Marmot Review: implications for Spatial Planning. Retrieved from National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/12111/53895/53895.pdf Hatcher, P., & Battey, N. (2011). Biological Diversity: Exploiters and Exploited. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Healthy Environment Development Unit (HUDU). (2009). Watch out for health, a checklist for assessing the health impact of planning proposals. Retrieved from National Health Sevice (NHS): http://www.healthyurbandevelopment.nhs.uk/documents/integrating_health/HUDU_Watch_Out_For_Health.pdf Henry, M. C. (2001). Environmental Management Strategies. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust. Retrieved from http://newsarticle.museumsontario.com/care/pdf/environmentalmanagement_tn.pdf International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). (2011). Charters and other doctrinal texts. Retrieved from ICOMOS: http://www.icomos.org/en/charters-and-texts Kidokoru, T., Okata, J., Matsumara, S., & Shima, N. (Eds.). (2008). Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies. Berlin: Spinger. Lowenthal, D. (1985). The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Marmot, M. (2010). Fair Society Healthy Lives. Retrieved from UCL Institute of Health Equity: http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/projects/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-marmot-review and http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/Content/FileManager/pdf/fairsocietyhealthylives.pdf Primack, R. B. (2010). Essentials of Conservation Biology (Fifth ed.). London: Macmillan Science. Primack, R. B. (2012). A Primer of Conservation Biology (Fifth ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. Smith, L. (2006). Uses of Heritage. Abingdon: Routeledge. Teutonico, J. M., & Matero, F. (Eds.). (2003). Managing Change: Sustainable Approaches to the Conservation of the Built Environment. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute. United Nations (2011). Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth. Nairob: United Nations Environment Programme. World Commission on Environment and Development (United Nations) (1987). Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks. Worthing, D., & Bond, S. (2008). Managing Built Heritage: The Role of Cultural Significance. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Seminar and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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