Law and Public Policy
LPSC 7312: Cities, Sustainability, and Climate Change
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Provides an overview of the various aspects of urban sustainability planning.
- Examines sustainability as an urban planning approach with both ecological and social justice goals.
- Covers sustainable planning and offers students an opportunity to understand it within the context of smart growth and the new urbanism.
- Focuses on the two areas in which cities can reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions—the built environment and transportation.
- From there, the course examines planning efforts to reduce demand on water and sewer systems and to create employment in renewable energy and other “clean-tech” occupations.
- The course ends by placing urban initiatives in the context of state and national policy.
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