Course syllabus
Samhällsplanering
Risk Based Land Use Planning
VBR110, 7,5 credits, A (Second Cycle)
Valid for: 2016/17
Decided by: Education Board C
Date of Decision: 2016-03-31
General Information
Compulsory for: BI4
Elective for: RH4
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish
Aim
The course will provide the student with sufficient knowledge to
allow him/her to collaborate at early stages in the planning
process so that risk analyses can be integrated and used to create
a basis at a strategic stage of the planning work, with the
objective of achieving a resilient society.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
- Show a general understanding of the planning process and being
familiar with some of the most central concepts related to land use
planning.
- Show an understanding of what types of risks being relevant to
take into consideration at different levels of land use
planning.
- Show an understanding for what actors and interests that are
involved in the planning process, and how they interact with
questions relating to risk management.
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
- Be able to identify and analyse those risks and vulnerable
objects that exist in the studied geographical area and be able to
develop input to a plan proposal in such way that existing
preconditions are taken into consideration.
- Be able to suggest and argue for well-considered measures that
in a planning context contribute to a resilient society.
- Be able to present and discuss relevant risk-related questions
in land use planning, verbally as well as in writing, with
interested stakeholders.
- 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.
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
- Demonstrate a capacity to assess and relate to trade-offs
between risk-related questions and other interests in land use
planning.
- Demonstrate a capacity to assess what type and level of detail
of risk-related questions that are most relevant to handle in
different planning processes.
- Demonstrate a capacity to reflect on the future professional
role relating to risk based land use planning.
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 project assignment, a course component will
be offered with the objective to provide knowledge of how risks of
various kinds can be managed in community-based planning, using
risk analyses as starting points. The project assignment must be
designed in view of the demands for a resilient society. Also
included in the course are lectures and literature study aimed at
addressing the problem relating to society's vulnerability.
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 seminars.
Examination details
Grading scale: UG
Assessment: The examination is given individually through submission of preparatory assignments, and in group format through oral and written reporting of the project assignment and opposition on another project assignment.
Admission
Admission requirements:
The number of participants is limited to: 60
Selection: Credits remaining for the degree. Priority is given to students admitted to Fire safety engineering.
Reading list
- Boverket: PBL - Detaljplan och översiktsplan, Utdrag från PBL kunskapsbanken. Boverket, 2012. Can be found at: http://www.boverket.se/Vagledningar/PBL-kunskapsbanken.
- Länsstyrelsen i Skåne Län: Riktlinjer för riskhänsyn i samhällsplaneringen , Bebyggelseplanering intill väg och järnväg med transport av farligt gods. Länsstyrelsen i Skåne Län: Malmö, 2007.
- Hallin, P.-O.: Sociala risker, En begrepp-s och metoddiskussion. Malmö Högskola: Malmö, 2013.
- Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms län: Riskanalyser i detaljplaneprocessen, Vem, vad, när och hur?. Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms län: Stockholm, 2003.
- Hallin, P-O., Nilsson, J. och Olofsson, N.: Kommunal sårbarhetsanalys, KBM:s forskningsserie nr 3. Krisberedskapsmyndigneten: Stockholm, 2004.
- Räddningsverket: Riskhantering i ett samhällsperspektiv, Samhällsplanering. Räddningsverket: Karlstad, 1998.
- MSB: Vägledning för risk- och sårbarhetsanalyser. Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB): Stockholm, 2011.
- SKL: Transporter av farligt gods, Handbok för kommunernas planering. Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting: Stockholm, 2012.
- Wisner, B., Blaikie, P., Cannon, T. & Davies, I.: At risk, Nautral hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters. Routledge: New York, 2003.
- ÖCB: Robusthet i den fysiska miljön. Överstyrelsen för civil beredskap, 1998. Page 29-32.
- Duijm, N., J. : Recommendations on the use and design of risk matrices. Safety Science, Vol. 76, ss. 21-31, 2015.
- Fleischhauer, M.: The role of spatial planning in strengthening urban resilience. H.J. Pasman & I.A. Kirillov (red.), Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats. Springer: Dordrecht., 2008.
- Sjöstedt, V., Larsson, A., Pettersson, F., & Hanson, H. : Planering för klimatsäkring. M. Hall, E. Lund & M. Rummukainen (red.) Klimatsäkrat Skåne, CEC Rapport Nr 02, Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning, Lunds universitet: Lund., 2015.
Contact and other information
Course coordinator: Alexander Cedergren, alexander.cedergren@risk.lth.se
Further information: Group assignments require active participation. Each group member must individually be able to account for the content of the assignment. If a group member does not fulfill the demands of the group or ignores hers/his commitment, she/he can be reassigned to another group or get a fail result.