Short course/CPD
Land and Social Resource Survey and Planning
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
Land planning and its "human dimension" are fundamental aspects of managing the physical and human environments. Knowledge of and correct application of land planning methodologies and solutions is vital for sustainable management of what are often limited resources. However, many managers would contend that sustainable resource management of limited and scarce resources is more a social problem than a technical one, requiring policies and programmes that directly target not only the resources themselves but social attitudes and cultural understandings about those natural assets. Appreciation of the opportunities and constraints to effective land use planning, and knowledge and correct application of social survey methods and participatory techniques for working with people, is therefore vital for successful intervention in the developing and developed world.
Location
Course fee:
- £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
- £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
- £1280 - Multiple bookings*
*Minimum of five delegates.
Accommodation fee:
Accommodation is not included in the price.
How to register
To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form.
If you have any queries please contact:
Academic Operations Unit.
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Please be aware that short courses/CPD are subject to:
Booking ConditionsCourse description
- Planning process: plan development, EU & UK planning context, general legal framework
- Function and application of planning designations: conservation, grant aid, change of use, preservation
- Land classification systems: Land capability classification, land suitability classification, Agricultural Land Classification, parametric methods
- Erosion survey and risk assessment
- Incorporating a modelling approach: soil erosion modelling
- Methods of exploring social attitudes to environmental policy and resource management issues
- Data Sources and Collection Methods: exploratory versus verification, formal versus informal, sampling methods
- Formal Survey Methods: sample design, semi-structured interviews, questionnaire design, data analysis and interpretation (hypothesis testing), data presentation
- Integrated land use planning.
On successful completion of this course the delegate will be able to:
- Assess the planning context (including the legal framework) within which land planning will operate.
- Design surveys to address land planning issues.
- Practise techniques designed to provide data for land planning.
- Evaluate classification systems to identify appropriateness for issues of interest.
- Formulate land planning recommendations, adopting standard practice.
- Appreciate and distinguish the features and suitability of formal and informal survey methods.
- Conduct a semi-structured interview.
- Design a questionnaire.
- Demonstrate teamwork to fulfil assignment objectives and practice oral presentation (as part of the assignment).
