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Land use management and land development 810


 
Module code TPU 810
Qualification Postgraduate
Faculty Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
Module content

A brief history of land use management in South Africa; rationale for land use management; principles of good land use management in the context of transformation and development imperatives in post-apartheid South Africa, global environmental change, new economic geography, procedural, substantive and intergenerational justice and development economics; critique of land use management; ethics of land use management; the characteristics of an appropriate land use management system that advances transformation, sustainability, resilience, equity, inclusiveness and integration in South Africa; the link between land use management and strategic spatial planning; international and South African examples of land use management systems; the future of land use management. Generic components of land use and land development applications and procedures; practical exercises in the preparation, submission, processing and evaluation of land use management applications; policy preparation in terms of land use management systems that advance the principles of effective, efficient and sustainable land use management; appeals; introduction to Environmental Impact Studies (EIAs).

Module credits 20.00
Prerequisites No prerequisites.
Contact time 40 contact hours per semester
Language of tuition Module is presented in English
Academic organisation Town and Regional Planning
Period of presentation Semester 1

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