PLAN20521 Environmental Planning and Assessment
Answer TWO questions only, with no more than ONE QUESTION from ANY section.
SECTION A
1. Provide an overview of issues holding back the wider implementation of natural flood management and reflect critically on the specific role that environmental planning can play in progressing natural flood management in practice.
2. Critically discuss the role that environmental planning can play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas. Draw on case study examples to support your answer.
SECTION B
3. Critically discuss the role that environmental planning can play in supporting the delivery of multifunctional green infrastructure in urban areas.
4. “Green infrastructure should be considered as a form. of critical infrastructure.” Critically discuss this statement.
SECTION C
5. Critically discuss the role that environmental planning can play in improving air quality in urban areas. Draw on case study examples to support your answer.
6. The EIA process is often criticised for the perceived burdens that it places on developers and decision-makers. Provide a response to counter each of the following views:
• EIA is too costly.
• EIA causes delays to projects.
• EIA does not make any difference to projects or decisions on their approval.