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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: UST 300. Investigates public policy approaches to people-based and place-based strategies that confront the consequences of economic development and transition; analyzes the effectiveness of national, state, and local level responses to poverty and spatial distress; examines the connection between product markets, labor markets (people), and land markets (places); develops skills in the areas of public policy formulation, analysis and evaluation.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the tools and programs available to the economic development practitioner to address capital needs for business and economic development projects; combines core elements of public finance, real estate finance, and corporate finance; explores critical tools for public policy officials, private developers, and corporate financial officers.
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4.00 Credits
Examines conflict as an omnipresent component of any decision-making environment; tools for understanding the nature of conflict; devising individual and group strategies that minimize the destructive consequences of conflict; and identifying solutions that are satisfactory to all involved; includes lectures, discussions, and simulation games. Cross-listed with PSM 433 and NAD 433.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: UST 403 recommended. Principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a computer tool to provide spatial information analysis; laboratory instruction in the use of GIS software to aid in the analysis of workplace problem situations.
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4.00 Credits
Administration of the organizations charged with responding to environmental regulations and/or crises; decision- and policy-making processes within and around these organizations, especially as they relate to conflicting interests and values. Cross-listed with ENV 435.
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4.00 Credits
Presents the values, trends and methods of planning for environmentally sustainable cities and regions. Focuses on urban sustainability and built form, including buildings, designed green spaces, urban water systems, energy and economic change. Students become familiar with processes that generate the physical landscape and the impact of human settlements on natural landscapes. Local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to land use and resource protection are featured. Students become familiar with planning methods and their use. Cross-listed with ENV 436.
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4.00 Credits
Challenges to decision-makers in environmental policy-making; strategies appropriate to various decision situations, analysis of decision-making; negotiation and mediation techniques. Cross-listed with ENV 440.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of principles and processes of environmental planning, focusing on urban, metropolitan and regional levels; presentation of frameworks and techniques in areas such as site-plan review, urban design, urban environmental restoration, open space and habitat preservation, water quality, bioregionalism, and growth management; development of organizing principles for environmentally sustainable metropolitan regions. Cross-listed with ENV 441.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to natural resource economics theory, financial decision-making processes, and public policy relevant to environmental protection, urban sustainability, and natural resource development and management; examination of public goods and pricing theory, public sector involvement, regulation, market solutions, capital planning, and budgeting for environmental infrastructure. Cross-listed with ENV 442.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the approaches to and processes of public administration with a comparative perspective, in developed and developing countries, with particular reference to American, African and European contexts. The course uses public bureaucracy as a focus for comparison. Major topics include constitutional basis and significance of international bodies on public administration, federal/central, provincial/state and local government systems, process of public policy formulation, administrative structures, and the role of career civil servants and civil society in the management of public policies.
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