Course

Sustainable Land Development - GMAT4860

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Surveying & Geospatial Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.sage.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Selected topics from: The Environment. Principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development. Efficient Energy Use through Land Development design Role of Surveyors in Environmental Management. Water Sensitive Urban Design. The role of stakeholder, public participation and the community in decision making over land use. Biodiversity. Sustainability and the law. Environmental ethics. Subdivision and development control in New South Wales. Administration of subdivision and development under Local Government and environmental planning and assessment legislation; procedures and legal controls. Statutory requirements for land development and subdivision of land, particularly as they apply to broad-acre subdivisions. The surveyor's role in the economic use of land. Variation of land use and land value. Temporal change of land use due to supply and demand, and its effect on land development and urbanisation. Location theory, public measures for directing land use, introduction to valuation; factors affecting value of land, valuation principles and practice.


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