
Apr
KIU CBOT Al-Hajj Hassan Basajjabalaba Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration and Leadership
April 12, 2021, 5:48 pm
This course deal with land use planning, urban growth, Land management and sustainable development. The environmental and human impacts of urban development on land use conversion will be analyzed and discussed. Land use issues at the urban-rural fringe, Land capability assessment as a planning tool. Land use and Environmental planning and regulation. The Planning process and planning tools for Land use management. Non-regulatory means of resolving land use conflicts. The use of GIS for land use analysis and management. Land use classification scheme and supervised classification of land cover types from remote sensing data. Planning models for sustainable environments. What are the different modes of organizing land ownership? Since land is both a public and private good, who is entitled to the benefits that accrue from land?
COURSE JUSTIFICATION/RATIONALE
There are many land uses that are competing for land yet it is a scarce resource. This calls for planners and land use managers to come up with the best procedures to determine the best land use patterns based on the suitability of land. The students therefore need to be equipped with the skills to develop better land use plans to overcome land management challenges faced in both urban and rural areas.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course, the student should be able to:
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A doctoral student completing the course is expected to:
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