Aim
The course will provide the fire engineer with sufficient knowledge to allow him/her to collaborate at early stages in the planning process so that risk analyses can be included and used to create a base at a strategic stage of the planning work where the objective is a robust and sustainable society.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to identify the risks and vulnerable project components located at the site under study.

• be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the planning process works and of important values and qualities in the existing environment.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to prepare a planning proposal in such a way that valued qualities of the area under study are safeguarded.

• be able to evaluate sources of risk and vulnerable project components located in the area, and integrate these factors into the plan in a community-related robust manner.

• be able to apply established methods of risk analysis to a plan site that contains risk sources and vulnerable components.

• be able to demonstrate a capability, both verbally and in writing, to report on and discuss with community decision-makers actual risk-related issues in community-based planning.

• be able to search for, and assess information with a high degree of independence and to assume responsibility that the group work carried out is completed and reported on within given time-frames.

• be able to analyse risks and vulnerabilities in an urban environment, as well as provide suggestions for initiatives to be considered in connection with planning which promote a sustainable and robust society.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• demonstrate a capacity for exercising good judgement regarding the relevant scientific, community-related, and ethical aspects.

• demonstrate insight into the possibilities and limitations of the techniques for the community, and into the responsibility of humans for their use.

• demonstrate the capability to identify the need for further knowledge and continuously develop the competence.

Contents
In the project assignment, the student will put into practice his/her knowledge of planning at, above all, the scale-level of general planning and extended general plans. However, certain components will be treated at a more detailed scale.

In parallel with the urban building assignment, a course component will be offered whose objective is to provide knowledge of how risks of various kinds can be managed in community-based planning, using risk analyses as starting points. This course component is aimed at providing insight into the application of the existing legislation framework as a management tool to enable risks to be considered in the community-based planning process.

The students will obtain an understanding of the various central, regional, and community administrations' view of the concept, "Risk considerations in the community-based planning process". An important aspect involves the linkage, "Environmental Impact Assessment – Risk Considerations". The extended general plan must be designed in view of the demands for a sustainable society. Also included in the course are lectures and literature study aimed at addressing the problem, "Community's vulnerability and preparedness measures in community-based planning".

The project work is reported in the form of a public seminar. The teaching aspect is carried out in project form with supporting lectures, consultations, and study visits. The work is constructed around a training site located in a nearby municipality. The written report shall follow the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Safety systems regulations for assignments at Level II, http://www.brand.lth.se/fileadmin/brandteknik/utbild/inuppgkrav.pdf.

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