Subsections
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Knowledge of the content of IDC208 is essential to follow this course.
- Screening & documentation the initial environmental examination full scale assessment of environmental impacts of the proposed project including pollutant transport in various media (air, water, soil) within a site conceptual model and atmospheric transport model
- Risk assessment dose-response and target level calculations
- EIA review and decision-making, monitoring, follow-up and project audit
- Causes and impacts of harm by socio-economic status and locations of all potentially
affected groups
- Assessment on significant impacts and the least protected; establishment of monitoring and mitigation programs.
- Health impact assessment (HIA): Health hazards and health risk assessments and demographic assessment applicable to cohort populations directly and indirectly affected.
Economic evaluation: Economic valuation of environmental resources; impacts on productivity, income, growth, disease burden and longevity; establishes efficient levels of pollution abatement; recommends pricing tools for implementing environmental regulation and fiscal remedies for those disproportionately harmed by industrial practices.
- Water Sector Impact Assessment: Water supply project design and quality improvement,
wastewater treatment project design and quality improvement.
- Energy Sector Impact Assessment: Fossil fuels (coal, natural gas), nuclear, and renewables environmental impact and hazards and its implications for planning and investment decisions at program and sectoral levels.
- Forestry and Ecosystem Services: Forests and forest eco-system services appraisal and economic evaluation in the current scenario. Forest eco-system services as a commodity to incentivize forest preservation. Pricing of carbon capture by forests. Links between forest preservation and protection of ecosystem services to support sustainability of rural habitats.
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- John Glasson, Riki Therivel and Andrew Chadwick, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment, 4th Edition, Routledge 2012
- Birley, Martin, Health Impact Assessment: Principles and Practices, London: Earthscan, (2011).
- Tietenberg, T. & Lewis, L., Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, 8th edition, 2009.
- Goldman, A.R. Social Impact Analysis, Oxford, 2000
- Brown, Lester. “Peak water: what happens when the well goes dry?”, Earth Policy Institute 9 July 2013.
- Spickett J, Katscherian D, Harris P, The role of HIA in the setting of air quality standards: an Australian perspective, Env Impact Assess Rev Nov 2013.
- Harris-Roxas B, Harris E, The impact and effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment: A conceptual framework, Envir Impact Assess Rev (2012) http:dydoi.org/101016/I, ejar 2012 09003
- Markandya A, Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: low-carbon electricity generation,The Lancet Vol 374:2006-25, et al (2009).
