853015 Digitalisation and environmental planning
- Type
- Lecture and seminar
- Semester hours
- 1
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Sommersemester 2023
- Languages of instruction
- Englisch
- Content
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Prof. Ivar Lyhne from the Unversity of Aalborg is the lecturer of this course. He is is associate professor at Aalborg University within environmental assessment, decision-making and public participation processes. Part time senior consultant at Ramboll contributing to environmental assessment of plans and projects. His newest project with colleague Lone Kørnøv is the DREAMS project. The vision of the project is to promote progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by digitally transforming the way society accesses and communicates information about environmental impacts of projects and plans. As part of this vision, the DREAMS consortium develops a roadmap for digitalizing environmental assessments in Denmark.
Society’s increasing digitalization brings possibilities and challenges to environmental planning. Initiatives aim for smarter processes, better decision support and more sustainability. This course will explore the current digitalization initiatives based on topical examples from environmental planning and environmental assessment in order to discuss future developments within the field, particularly for advanced methods (e.g. the integration of AI).
This involves attention to organizational and institutional aspects as well as technical and technological aspects. Special attention will be on digitalization within environmental assessment processes.
Based on lectures on digitalization in environmental planning, students work in groups to explore different approaches of digitalization of environmental planning. This involves research and analysis of specific digitalization initiatives within environmental planning (desktop research). The initiatives are preferably found within different countries and different types of environmental planning (e.g., nature conversation and landscape planning). International literature are used to categorise initiatives and to understand implications for environmental planning. The students will present their findings in class to share insight and learning with other students.
- Previous knowledge expected
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- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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•Students know about advanced and novel digitalisation initiatives within environmental planning and environmental assessment and public environmental data.
•Students know about institutional and organisational aspects of digitalisation of environmental planning and environmental assessment
•Students can present potentials and challenges of (advanced) digitalisation within environmental planning with a view to sustainable transformation.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.