Overviews of environmental site assessment, MIS documents, and environmental auditing will also be given. An introduction to selected advanced techniques related to planning analysis. Subjects include advanced applied regression analysis, multivariate logit analysis and multinomial logistic regression. Applications of projection techniques, land use and transportation models and methods of regional analysis. This seminar examines the role of environmental law within the political-institutional framework of the American system.
Emphasis is on the legal-judicial aspects of environmental regulation.
Analyzes the decision of U.S. courts as these affect and interpret environmental laws and regulations for their legality and constitutionality. Evaluation of the effect of state, local, and federal housing policy on the urban arena. Topics will be selected from federal subsidy programs, tax subsidies, operations of financial intermediaries, and related areas. Examination of housing policies and programs in developing and developed nations, and implementation programs. Applications of GIS to typical urban and regional geographic information problems and projects.