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Territorial planning

  • 2024/2025
  • ECTS credits
    ECTS credits: 3

    ECTS Hours Rules/Memories
    Hours of tutorials: 3
    Expository Class: 9
    Interactive Classroom: 12
    Total: 24

    Use languages
    Spanish, Galician

    Type:
    Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021

    Departments:
    Agroforestry Engineering

    Areas:
    Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry

    Center
    Higher Polytechnic Engineering School

    Call:
    First Semester

    Teaching:
    With teaching

    Enrolment:
    Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)

    • Definitions,

    • Analysis of land use/cover change,

    • Location-allocation models,

    • Land suitability models,

    • Spatial Decision Support Systems.


    • These basic contents are developed in the following lectures:


      1. Types of planning problems (1 h),

      2. Spatial Decision Support Systems (1 h),

      3. Multicriteria assessment models (2 h),

      4. Location-allocation models (2 h),

      5. Land use/cover change models (2 h),

      6. Optimization algorithms (1 h).


      And the following practical sessions:


      1. Suitability analysis (4 h),

      2. Location-allocation models (4 h),

      3. Land use/cover change models (4 h).

  • Rittel, H. & M. Webber (1973). Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning. Policy Sciences 4 (2), pp. 155-169.

  • Sugumaran, R., DeGroote, J. (2011). Spatial Decision Support Systems. Principles and Practices. Boca Raton, EEUU: CRC Press.

  • Gómez Delgado, M., Barredo Cano, J. I. (2005). Sistemas de información geográfica y evaluación multicriterio en la ordenación del territorio. Madrid: Ed. Ra-ma.

  • Bosque, J., Moreno, A. (2012). Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Localización Óptima de Instalaciones y Equipamientos. Madrid: Ra-ma.

  • Briassoulis, H. (2020). Analysis of Land Use Change: Theoretical and Modeling Approaches. 2nd edition. Edited by Scott Loveridge and Randall Jackson. WVU Research Repository.


  • Complementary bibliography

  • FAO (1976). A framework for land evaluation. FAO Soils bulletin 32.

  • Malczewski, J. (2000). On the use of weighted linear combination method in GIS: Common and best practice approaches. Transactions in GIS 4:1:5–22.

  • Malczewski, J. (2004). GIS-based land-use suitability analysis: a critical overview. Progress in Planning 62:1:3–65.

  • Gómez Órea, D. (2013). Ordenación Territorial. Madrid: Ed. Agrícola Epañola.

  • Moreno, A., Buzai, G. D., Fuenzalida, M. (2012). Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Aplicaciones en Diagnósticos Territoriales y Decisiones Geoambientales. Madrid: Ra-ma.

  • Pease & Coughlin (2014). USDA - NRCS Land Evaluation and Site Assessment: Guidebook. US Dept. of Agriculture.

  • Theoretical lectures (competencias CG02, CG06, CB7, CE02, CE05, CE06, CE08)

  • Practical sessions (competencias CG01, CG04, CB8, CB9, CB10, CT01, CE04, CE07, CE10, CE12)

  • Use of the virtual campus (Moodle).

  • Practical cases and projects.

  • Individualized and group tutoring.

  • Autonomous study.

  • Evaluation of competence.

  • Continuous assessment, based on practical assignments along the duration of the course. 70% of final grade. Competences CG01, CG04, CB8, CB9, CB10, CT01, CE04, CE07, CE10, CE12.

  • Written test. 30% of final grade. Competences CG02, CG06, CB7, CE02, CE05, CE06, CE08).


  • All assessment activities will be carried out using Moodle.
    Students are required to achieve a minimum of 5 points (out of 10) overall to receive a passing grade. A passing grade in one of the components will be retained, at most, for the following academic year.
    Students exempt of attendance to classes will follow the same assessment system.
    The USC Norm for Assessment of Academic Performance will be automatically applied if fraud or fabrication of assessment materials is detected.

  • Ines Sante Riveira

    Coordinador/a
    Department
    Agroforestry Engineering
    Area
    Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry
    Category
    Professor: University Lecturer
  • Exams
    01.20.2025 16:00-18:00 Grupo /CLE_01 Classroom 18 (Pav.II-PPS)