Sustainability and Social and Environmental Impact (2500035) – Course 2025/26 PDF
Contents
Description The definition and concept of social impact. The social perception of impacts. The historical and territorial context of social awareness. The content of impact assessment studies. The evaluation of the social and urban aspects. Valuation methods: quantitative and qualitative Description and analysis of the main normative texts. Social impact assessment: qualitative methodologies and quantitative methodologies Description The content of impact assessment studies. The evaluation of social and urban issues. Valuation methods: quantitative and qualitative.
Specific Objectives
Objectives To introduce the subject. Understand the transformative potential of public works on the territory and society. To make it known in the historical context from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. Objectives To make students understand the impact of public works projects on the physical, social and environmental environment from the different methods of quantitative and qualitative assessment. Explain the main valuation methods. Understand the administrative procedure of current regulations. Objectives To make known the current legislation and the administrative hierarchy in the different territorial frameworks
Dedication
30m Large group + 15m Medium group + 15m Guided Activities + 1h 30m Self StudyDescription The impacts on the population, on the landscape of the city, on the environment and its balance, on mobility, on services and equipment. The effects linked to the period of works Objectives To understand and reflect on the effects of the infrastructures in the city Description The study of the environment: the affected neighborhoods. Identification and description of impacts: the barrier effect, the visual impact, the impact on the landscape, the noise, the impact on the equipment. The impacts linked to the works period. The measures taken. The transformations produced Objectives To understand the transformative effect of the infrastructures in the city Impacts of large infrastructures and urban quality. The cases of the transformations of Sants and La Sagrera with the arrival of the TAV Description The study of the affected neighborhoods. Analysis of the proposals and solutions adopted. The transformations on the urban form Objectives To analyze and to value the changes that produce the great infrastructures in the urban weave
Specific Objectives
Objectives To understand and reflect on the effects of infrastructures in the city
Dedication
10h Large group + 14h Self StudyDescription The direct effects in the period of works and in the operation of the infrastructures The effects induced in the economic activities and the sector of the production (the industrial location, the creation of technological parks, the tertiary and commercial location, the transformations in the agricultural sector, in the tourism sector). Impacts on city hierarchy and residential expansion / concentration. Objectives To understand the modifying effect that the infrastructures produce on the territory, potentialities and weaknesses of the relation cause effect. The effects of road infrastructure transformations. The case of the Llobregat Axis Description The historical background: planning and projects of the Llobregat axis. The evolution of the Llobregat axis within the structure of the Catalan road network: connection with the Pyrenees and international route. Socio-economic effects: Impacts on the structuring of the territory. Transformations in the productive structure. Description The case study of the Ebro Delta canalization. The evolution of the deltaic environment. Socio-economic and institutional agents. The effects: the evolution in the population, agriculture, the protection of the natural spaces. The transformations: the case of the mini-transfer of water to Tarragona, the water conflict and the consequences of the PHN. Description Case study of the intervention in beach regeneration. Description of the coastal environment, the uses and problems of the coast in Catalonia. Technical interventions and management on the beaches. The effects of transformations. Objectives To understand the modifying effect that the interventions and technical actions produce on the open spaces, potentialities and weaknesses of the relation cause effect.
Specific Objectives
Objectives To understand the modifying effect that the infrastructures produce on the territory, potentialities and weaknesses of the relation cause effect. Objectives: to understand the modifying effects on the territory Objectives To understand the modifying effect that the interventions and technical actions produce on the open spaces, potentialities and weaknesses of the relation cause effect.
Dedication
12h Large group + 16h 47m Self StudycThe historical context of the appearance of environmental concern and the development discourse is presented sustainable, its institutionalization until the 2030 Agenda and the 17 ODS. It explains how environmental policies have been deployed to protect the territory, from the point of view of protection from natural spaces and biodiversity to the arrangement of the landscape and its integration in planning urban planningontent english
Specific Objectives
1. Know practices to promote the sustainable development of the territory, both natural (PN, PEIM, etc.) and built (urban ecology, sustainable city, etc.). 2. Know the concepts of global transformation of social equity and participatory process.
Dedication
30m Large group + 15m Medium group + 15m Laboratory classes + 1h 30m Self StudyKnowledge of the population. Assessment Activity Description Assessment exercise Objectives Assess knowledge
Specific Objectives
Objectives To assess knowledge
Dedication
11h Laboratory classes + 15h 24m Self Study