Environmental and Physical Planning
The environmental and physical planning specialization offered by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UB involves the study of how to use the planning process to resolve three broad sets of problems: (1) minimizing the negative effects of environmental problems on human health and urban and regional systems; (2) minimizing the negative effects of human settlements on ecosystems; and (3) managing the growth of cities, suburbs, and rural areas to be sustainable.
Curriculum
Intro Course
- PD 568 Environmental Planning and Policy
Methods Course
- PD 578 Environmental Planning Methods
- PD 602 Environmental Planning Support Systems
Elective Courses (minimum two)
- PD 559 Tourism and Recreation Planning and Policy
- PD 562 Transportation, Land Use, and Urban Form
- PD 595 Disasters Planning
- AMS 520 Perspectives on Ecological and Environmental Restoration
- ARC 576 Landscape Architecture
- BIO 514 Topics in Advanced Ecology
- CIE 500 Ecosystem Restoration
- CIE 535 Geo-environmental Engineering
- CIE 552 Water Resources Planning
- ENS 542 Intro to Environmental Science
- GEO 515 Biogeography/Landscape Ecology
- GEO 544 Environmental Change
- GEO 549 Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEO 552 GIS and Enviornmental Modeling
- GEO 570 Integrated Watershed Management
- GEO 575 Landform Development
- GLY 514 Hydrogeology
- GLY 527 Modeling of Geological Data
- LAW 859 Water Quality Workshop
Recommended Foundational Electives
- PD 567 Planning Law
- PD 573 Land Use and Physical Planning
Culminating Exercise (choose one)
- Thesis on topic in Environmental Planning
- Professional Project on Environmental Planning
