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Study programmes 2011-2012Last update : 14/06/2012
ENVT2061-1  Urban space vulnerability in developing countries

Duration :  12h SEM, 12h Th
Number of credits :  
Advanced Master in Environmental Management in developing countries Toute l'année2
Lecturer :  Claude Feltz
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Course contents :  
The course addresses the urban space organisation within their relationships to their environment, according to the different relevant scales, a fallow:
* the relationship between towns and their hinterland (rural and smaller cities) and the specific phenomenon of the urban macrocephaly and the specific imbalance of the report city-countryside of developing countries,
* the territorial structure of big cities within the developing countries, their running and hardly controllable dynamic and their difficult relationship with their hosting environment
* the urban organisation of the town and its extensions, analysed through the environmental effects and riks and according to a sustainable development logic.
* the different morphological urban units (among which the precarious settlement belts) and their match to the environmental management of the urban spaces in developing countries.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
To bring the tools for the identifying and understanding of the specificity of towns organisation in developing countries and their difficult relationships with their vulnerable environment in climatic, geotechnic or socio-economics terms...
After completing the course the student is expected to
The course aims to bring the diagnosis tools of the factors operating within the difficult relationship between the urban spaces in developing countries and their environment. It intents to help to distinguish the endogenous and exogenous factors, the structural and organisational factors, the risk prevention issue by planning and the remediation actions opportunities answering specific issues of the concerned urban society and space. It favours the approach of the impacts of urban development in fragile environment, the natural risks on urban life and especially the water resources and wastes management issues.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
None
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Lectures : 12h
Seminars : 12h
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Personal report (100%)
Contacts :  
Feltz, Claude (Professeur)
Aménagement des Territoires
081 62 23 19
feltz.c@fsagx.ac.be


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