Spatial Planning is the discipline which, from a multidisciplinary point of view, pursues a balanced territorial development. Its objective is the coherent allocation of land uses in the territory, taking into account environmental criteria, hence its name.



In the context of the Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Sciences, we will focus on the role played by Spatial Planning in the management and conservation of the environment. Its possibilities will be studied from a theoretical point of view in order to subsequently work on it through practical methodologies: diagnosing the potential and fragility of the units of the territory in order to, based on this, assign regulations of uses and activities corresponding to each one.



In order to develop the practical work of Land Management it is essential to use Geographic Information Systems, so it is recommended to have previously studied the subject ‘Geographic Information Systems’.

Specific skills:



M06CM03. Carry out territorial environmental diagnosis



M06CM04. Carry out integrated territorial planning and management



M06CM05. Environmentally assess land-use plans



General skills:



G002. Plan and develop environmental projects with a transdisciplinary approach.



G004. Analyse, manage and conserve the environment and associated resources in natural, rural or urban environments, as well as design and develop land-use plans and projects.



Transversal skills:



G009. Be able to use information from different sources on an applied subject, interpret it appropriately, draw significant conclusions and present them publicly.



Basic competences:



MEC2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.



EQF4. Students are able to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.



Learning outcomes:



1. Handles and explains with fluency contents of the theoretical-conceptual framework specific to spatial planning.



2. Compares and evaluates spatial planning documents from an environmental point of view and conceives them as a frame of reference to elaborate practical work.



3. Defines and elaborates the environmental diagnosis of the physical environment in a territory according to the procedures learnt.



4. Plans a spatial planning model for the physical environment of a territory on the basis of the previously diagnosed.

THEORETICAL BLOCK



Topic 1: EO as a tool for socio-spatial and environmental planning

Topic 2: Legal and instrumental framework

Topic 3: General methodology



PRACTICAL BLOCK



Theme 4: Physical environment

Theme 5: Human environment

Theme 6: Legal and institutional framework

Theme 7: Integral diagnosis

Theme 8: Planning

In the lectures, theoretical and methodological explanations will be given, which will later be used by the student to develop the practical activities. Most of the time in the classroom will be devoted to practical work in teams.



To achieve the learning outcomes, the student will have to develop the territorial and environmental diagnosis of a municipality and propose a sustainable territorial model based on the potentialities and weaknesses previously diagnosed. This Spatial Planning project, made up of the diagnosis and the proposals, will be in accordance with the content of the documents that make up the regulatory framework of Spatial Planning in the Basque Autonomous Community: the Spatial Planning Guidelines (DOT), the Sectorial Territorial Plans (PTS) and the Partial Territorial Plans (PTP), which will be analysed and evaluated from an environmental point of view as the project is developed.



As the work team completes each part of the project, they will present it publicly in the classroom, so that the feedback given by the teacher will allow them to improve what has been done and to channel the successive phases of the work appropriately.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 40
  • Team projects (problem solving, project design)) (%): 40
  • Exhibition of works, readings ... (%): 20

The assessment of the subject will be mixed. The 40% will be assessed by means of two written tests and the remaining 60% by means of continuous assessment.



Written tests (40%), there will be two:



- 1st written test (fifth week of the term), on the theoretical principles of the subject (35%).



- 2nd written test (ordinary exam, June): questions on the methodological part of the preparation of a territorial plan (15%).



Continuous assessment 60%, which is broken down into:



- Group project on Territorial Planning (40%).



- Exhibitions and other activities carried out in the classroom (20%).



The final grade will be obtained from the weighted sum of these two parts, but in order to pass the subject it is essential to pass each of them separately.



Other considerations:



- In any case, students will have the right to be assessed through the final assessment system, regardless of whether or not they have participated in the continuous assessment system. To do so, students must submit a written waiver of continuous assessment to the lecturer responsible for the subject, for which they will have a period of 9 weeks for four-monthly subjects (Regulations governing student assessment in official undergraduate degrees, art. 8, art. 8).

official undergraduate degrees, art. 8, point 3.)



- As the weight of the final exam is equal to or less than 40% of the grade for the subject, students may waive the final exam within a period of time that will be at least until

Students who do not pass the subject in the ordinary call, regardless of the evaluation system chosen therein, will have the right to take the exams and evaluation activities that make up the final evaluation test of the extraordinary call. .

1.- The evaluation of the subjects in the extraordinary calls will be carried out exclusively through the final evaluation system.

2.- The final evaluation test of the extraordinary call will consist of as many exams and evaluation activities as are necessary to be able to evaluate and measure the defined learning results, in a manner comparable to how they were evaluated in the ordinary call. The positive results obtained by the students during the course may be preserved. In the case of having obtained negative results through the continuous evaluation carried out during the course, these results cannot be maintained for the extraordinary call, in which the students will be able to obtain 100% of the grade.



*Failure to take the final exam will mean that the student will not be able to take the final exam and the grade will be "No presented".

geoEuskadi cartographic database
Territorial Planning Guidelines (DOT)
Sectorial Partial Plans (PTS)
Partial Territorial Plans (PTP)
Geographic Information Systems
Udalplan
Basque Government Territorial Indicators Viewer

Basic bibliography

Farinós Dasí, J., Romero, J., & Salom, J. (eds.). (2014). Cohesión e inteligencia territorial. Universitat de València.

Farinós Dasí, J., Serrano Rodríguez, A., Borobio Sanchiz, M., & Nogués Linares, S. (eds.). (2021). Planificación y gestión

integrada como respuesta. Universitat de València.

Fernández Fernández, A., & Muguruza Cañas, C. (2015). Ordenación del territorio. Análisis y diagnóstico. UNED.

Galiana, L., & Vinuesa, J. (coords.) (2010). Teoría y práctica para una ordenación racional del territorio. Síntesis.

Gómez Orea, D., & Gómez Villarino, A. (2013). Ordenación territorial (3ª ed.). Ediciones Mundi-Prensa.

Pujadas R., & Font, J. (1998). Ordenación y Planificación Territorial. Síntesis.

Rando Burgos, E. (2019). Legislación e instrumentos de la ordenación del territorio en España. Iustel.

Zoido Naranjo, F. (2013). Diccionario de urbanismo: geografía urbana y ordenación del territorio. Cátedra.

In-depth bibliography

Avila Orive, J.L. (1998): El suelo como elemento ambiental. Perspectiva territorial y urban¿ica. Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao.
Hildenbrand, A. (1996): Pol¿ca de ordenaci¿el territorio en Europa. Universidad de Sevilla, Consejer¿de Obras P¿blicas y Transporte de la Junta de Andaluc¿ Sevilla.
McHarg I. L. (2000): Proyectar con la naturaleza. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona (1¿ ed. 1969, Desing with nature. Natural History Press, Nueva York).
Romero, J. y Farin¿J. (eds.) (2004): Ordenaci¿el territorio y desarrollo territorial. El gobierno del territorio en Europa: Tradiciones, contextos, culturas y nuevas visiones. Trea

Journals

Applied Geography
Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles BAGE
Ciudad y Territorio: Estudios Territoriales
Environmental and Planning
EURE Revista de Estudios Urbano Regionales
European Planning Studies
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal of the American Planning Association
Landscape and Urban Planning
Landscape Research
Progress in Planning

Web addresses

www.euskadi.net
www.bizkaia.net
www.alava.net
www.gipuzkoa.net