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BAEN1012: Sustainability Principles
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This unit of study provides students with a grounded introduction to the role of sustainable development in evaluating and managing environmental issues and planning for more sustainable futures. This unit will examine the relationships between built environment, human societies and the complex interactions that shape key environment outcomes both now and in the future. Students are introduced to key concepts associated with 'sustainable urbanism' including low carbon development, green infrastructure, climate change adaptation and mitigation. The concepts of environment and sustainability, together with their conflicting priorities are discussed along with thedifficulties of incorporating them into the current socio-political and economic systems. Students will also be introduced to indigenous knowledge and practices that can inform approaches to sustainability.Students will develop an appreciation for the range of socio-technical systems for mitigating and adapting to key environmental challenges. During this course, students will learn to apply this understanding to an analysis of the built environment at multiple scales from building level to global.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Urban and Regional Planning and Policy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Develop a critical awareness of the processes of environmental knowledge production.
- LO2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principles of ecologically sustainable development.
- LO3. Evaluate the life cycle implications of urban processes at multiple scales.
- LO4. Identify and utilise analytical tools to evaluate key sustainability objectives in built environments at multiple scales.
- LO5. Demonstrate understanding of and evaluate resource flows across multiple scales, from individual buildings to the global scale.
- LO6. Demonstrate understanding of indigenous knowledge and practices can contribute to sustainable development agenda.
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