Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Environmental Dimension
Teaching staff
Introduction
Metrics, tools and methods for planning and designing healthy and sustainable built environments, will be elicited through literature review –scientific evidence-, and analysis of case studies at all scales –from policies and regulations to planning and design- related to the environmental dimension.
The mains topics proposed for this edition are:
(1) Environmental Epidemiology: Air Pollution, Noise, Green Spaces, Temperature.
(2) Mobility: Sustainable Transport Systems, Transport Planning, Infrastructure and Cities.
(3) Energy and Waste: Materials and Energy Flows, Waste Collection, Energy Transition.
(4) Food and Water: Peri-urban Agriculture, Food/Water Planning and Governance, Climate/Food/Water Emergency.
(5) Nature-Based Solutions: Blue and Grey Infrastructure.