Territory and Development Seminar
Code
711041061
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Geografia e Planeamento Regional
Credits
12
Teacher in charge
Maria Regina Salvador
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a)To transmit a set of information related to the territorial development.
b)To discuss policies of innovation and territorial development at different geographical scales.
c)To analyse different experiences of regional and local development in Europe and Portugal.
d)To evaluate the role played by the geographical concentration and nets for the economic growth and development.
e)To apply the knowledge acquired in the conception of a project concerning the development at a local and regional scale.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
(1)Territory as an identity discourse.
(2)The production of territories: actors and strategies.
(3)Critical reflection about different models of territory management.
(4)Environmental legislation and territory planning.
(5)Indicators and tools of sustainability for a territory.
(6)New territorial dynamics in Portugal.
(7)Development problems in specific territories (downtown; urban peripheries; rural areas; mountain and border areas and islands,
) [This topic is exclusively for the practical works].
Bibliography
DANIELS, P. et all (ed.), Geographies of the New Economy. Critical Reflections. Londres, Routledge, 2007, 198p.
NETO, Paulo A., Território e Desenvolvimento Económico, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 2006, 211p.
PIKE, Andy, Local and Regional Development, 1ª ed., Londres, Routledge, 2006, 310p.
SILVA, V., Verde Cor de Direito, Almedina, Coimbra, 2002, pp. 63-83.
PILLET, G., Economia Ecológica, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 1997, pp. 13-45; 251-281.
Teaching method
-Reading a set of selected texts for which content the students will be evaluated in a written examination.
-Participation in a project concept, in which the theoretical contents learnt during the course will be applied.
Evaluation method
-Written test about a set of selected texts (60%);
-Participation in a project concept about development problems (30%) and oral presentation (10%).