Environmental Impact Assessment

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. know the basic steps involved in EIA process; 2. learn the techniques and skills of conducting EIA; 3. know EIA legal framework; 4. know the role of EIA in achieving the goals of environmental management; and 5. know the challenges of EIA practice in the developing countries and way forward.

Environmental impact of human actions. Response of society to environmental changes. Bio- geophysical and socio-economic impacts. Administrative procedures in planning/decision making of environmental impact assessment (EIA). Contents of EIA. Methods for identifying, predicting and interpreting impacts/effects and inspection procedures. Conceptual framework for EIA using simultaneous models and policy analysis. Socio-economic methods or EIA with respect to current socio-economic environment and methods for deriving impacts.