It studies roles of soil in ecosystems and biogeochemical processes in soil, and on this basis by considering the interaction with other parts of ecosystems, examines the management practices of water, air and biological resources.

This course is designed to learn and apply fundamental to up-to-date quantitative methods used for spatially integrative analysis in such disciplines as urban planning, transportation studies, environmental management, and landscape architecture. Beginning with basic descriptive techniques for spatial data, this course reviews the principles of statistical inference, key statistical tests, and their practical application. Emphasis is placed on the use and limitations of analytical techniques in the literature and practice, including problems caused by violations of underlying assumptions as well as by the nature of spatial data. The course then explores alternative forms of multivariate analysis and introduces current methods for spatially integrative research. By the end of the semester, students should be able to (1) know the appropriateness of a quantitative method for a certain application, (2) comfortably use (statistical and GIS) software packages relevant to quantitative methods for spatially integrative analysis, (3) critically examine quantitative methods used in peer-reviewed papers, and (4) endeavor to seek more information on any type of method used by researchers. No prerequisites are needed, but it is assumed that students have some prior knowledge of introductory statistics.

This course introduces concepts and technologies for the creation of national territorial environments that can minimize environmental and human risks, as well as green restoration techniques that encompass design and construction techniques. Details are ecological restoration techniques applicable to areas or targets that have significantly deteriorated from their natural state or have lost their resilence, and low-impact development techniques that deal with eco-friendly technologies or resilience methods to reduce or offset environmental hazards caused by development. Environmental big data analysis for intelligent environmental monitoring and predictive management is also provided through theoretical and practical training. This lecture consists of lectures on the basic concepts of green restoration, special lectures by experts in each field, field trips, and practice. This lecture aims to cultivate professional manpower with basic knowledge and application ability in the field of green restoration.

This course is designed to provide students with the basics of research design and quantitative analysis in spatial planning and social science. The goal of this course is to give an understanding of the use statistical methods to answer the questions of various problems in urban and regional scale. This course will cover the basics of theory and research design, including how to identify a viable research question, to formulate a theory and derive hypotheses. This course’s emphasis will be on formulating problems as statistical models and the proper interpretation of analytic results. The course will consist of both lecture and lab. The lecture will focus on developing basic understanding of the purpose, rationale, and usage of the various statistical analyses. The lab’s primary purpose is to provide students first-hand experience in conducting and interpreting multivariate statistical analyses using SPSS, STATA, HLM and other statistical software.

This course aims to train students to understand basic statistical knowledge required in the Interdisciplinary Program in Landscape Architecture, to identify practical issues in their applications, and to use appropriate alternatives for addressing the issues. Throughout the semester, students learn major statistical analyses employed in research papers that have been published in top international journals and practice the analyses using data that are collected on their own. Accordingly, students should be able to understand data transformation and analytical tools according to the nature of the data and the violation of statistical assumptions, followed by the limitations of the transformed data and analytical methods. The course is open to other majors who are interested in which statistics to use according to their research questions and data and how to deliver the process and results of a statistical analysis.

In this course, students will understand the concepts and research methods of landscape ecology and Korean traditional ecology and practice ecological engineering approaches to environmental management.

Soil and vegetation mainly form Green Infrastructure. Vegetation fixes atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis whereas soil and vegetation return CO2 to the atmosphere through respiration. The carbon cycle is tightly coupled with water, energy and nutrient cycles as well. Biogeochemistry modeling, which has been widely used in natural ecosystems, enables us to understand the complex mechanisms of carbon, water, energy and nutrient cycles in Green Infrastructure. This seminar course will equip students with the following focuses: 1) understanding principles in biogeochemistry modeling, 2) using biogeochemistry modeling to analyze water, carbon, nutrient and energy cycles in Green Infrastructure, and 3) investigating how biogeochemical modeling could contribute to management and planning in Green Infrastructure.

The course will investigate a variety of methods to understand the landscape and landscape characteristics, which are the objects for the theory and design in landscape architecture. Objective evaluation and assessment methods of landscape quality and aesthetic values of landscape will be studied. The course will also cover technical problems related with landscape assessment, the meaning of landscape, and its interpretations.

This course focuses on empirically and theoretically grounded understanding of logics and mechanism immanent in urban spatial structure according to urban growth and development process. It gives advanced theories and concepts of economic, social and cultural factors that shape the spatial structure of cities and metropolitan regions. The course seeks to provide theoretical and analytical tools for understanding the growth and spatial structure of cities in prosperous regions as well as cities in dying regions in the era of the globalization and information age. In addition, this course aims is to understand under what conditions, and why the economic growth of cities will positively or negatively affect intra-urban spatial structure, and to discuss the role of political and institutional dynamics in shaping the urban spatial structure in different modes of economic organization.

This course will introduce the latest trends in traffic engineering, discuss analytical methodology, and, by using computer analytical models, execute plans for the improvement of principal roads.

This course will examine the principal analytical techniques for dealing with problems caused by traffic congestion and alternative policies to alleviate them.

This course focuses on advanced topics in urban and regional economics. Topics include: urban spatial structure, urban labor market, land and housing market, local government (decision process, local public finance and taxation), land use regulation and urban growth management, urban quality of life and environment, structure of regional economy, regional science methodology (Input-Output analysis, Social Accounting Matrix, Computable General Equilibrium Model), regional economy’s productivity and growth. Econometric modelling and applications for urban and regional economics will also be discussed.

Cities constantly consume energy and resources. The flow of resource production, consumption, and disuse maintains the basic functioning of cities. However, a number of valuable resources―ranging from diminished availability of fossil fuels to limited developable land in the urban regions―may serve as a limiting factor for contemporary urban living. Especially in many Asian cities, per-capita resource consumption is likely to increase rapidly, raising questions about the current mode of urbanization and urban development. This course is designed to help PhD students develop in-depth research on the issues of urban design, development, resource consumption, sustainable infrastructure management, and the restoration of deteriorated urban fabrics.

This doctoral seminar will examine the contemporary theories and researches on urban development and regeneration. The seminar encourages the students to identify the researchable topics and to develop relevant research methodology through extensive readings and bibliographical studies. The seminar emphasizes the understanding of the socio-economic and political forces that generate the current urban change and development at global, regional and local levels.

This course deals with the cultural significance held in landscapes, as a record and history of a settlement environment. Especially in Korea, where people have traditionally led a life with strong connections and affinity to nature, landscapes must be approached from a cultural viewpoint. By reading into landscape from such a viewpoint, as a process and result of a way of life, this course will investigate the Korean outlook on nature, its manifestation, and the ensuing meaning and value that can be found in its landscapes.

In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) proposed 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as the global core agenda in order to solve the economic, social, and environmental problems facing humankind. By offering an overview of current issues and challenges of sustainability in economy, society, and environment, this course intends to provide the basic understanding and perspectives of the topics covered for students planning to pursue various concentrations such as Environmental Landscape Architecture, Environmental Management, Social Innovation, Transportation, Urban Environmental Design, and Urban and Regional Planning at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies. Furthermore, diverse experts in public sectors, private sectors, civil society, and international organization who are related to the above-mentioned concentrations will be invited to share their professional experience from the ground. Through these invited seminars, this course provides comprehensive but practical information for students’ future career path.

In the 21st century, culture is defined as one of the four pillars that support the sustainability and/or sustainable development of cities along with the environment, society and economy. Culture-led urban regeneration is included in the issue of ‘urban culture and heritage’ in the first of six thematic areas of UN-Habitat III (2016) known as Social Cohesion and Equity ? Livable Cities. In this context, urban culture and heritage is participating in cultivating the diversity, resilience and inclusion of a city as well as restoring the humanity of the city. Furthermore, from the right to the city perspective, urban culture and heritage is expected to play a role as a catalyst to ensure the spatial inclusion of the city and the diversity of urban places. Therefore, culture-led urban regeneration is required as one of the essential urban planning methods to overcome the social exclusion and inequality of modern cities that go beyond the scale of heritage preservation and adaptive use in the past century. It contributes to transforming a city into an inclusive and sustainable urban place. This course aims to understand global trends and discuss implications for sustainable urban regeneration practices in Korea by learning the global practice of culture-led urban regeneration through the lens of urban planning.

Regional Innovation refers to create, utilize, and spread local capacity in the field of human resource, science, technology, industrial production, business, reflecting local conditions and characteristics (Balanced National Development Act). This class diagnoses spatial shocks created by technology revolution, predicts their impacts, and explore direction, policy making, implementation strategy of future-oriented regional innovation. It evaluates Destruction (sharing/convergence), and Decentralization (dispersion). Decarbonization, compares objectively with their corresponding conceptual opposites, and examines objectively their applicability and limits. The class also tries to deepen students’interests to be connected to regional innovative ecology and to recognize that sustainable regional innovation is one of the axis of urban innovation space. In addition, through the linkage between sustainable regions and the global level and the various grafting of SDGs, ISO, and ESG dimensions for this purpose, students of various majors interested in the region as an spatial entity will have an understanding and interest in interdisciplinary research and regional issues.

The primary objective of transport studies has been changing from the efficient movements of people and goods to the balanced considerations to the environmentally friendly and socially equitable sustainability. This course discusses the sustainable transportation system through the examination of diverse policies, plans, and techniques. In particular, the unit deals with in-depth the transportation system responsive to the energy crisis and the climate change as well as the issues of interclass, interregional, and intergenerational equity.

To understand the sustainable waste management, an integrated system as a whole and its critical individual components including policy, institution, engineering technologies, and participation is presented and discussed.