Environmental Impact Assessment and Auditing

Paper Code: 
PES 154
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
10.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to EIA
  • Concept of Sustainable Development- From Stockholm to Rio to Johannesburg.
  • The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
  • Agenda 21: An Overview, World Summit on Sustainable Development.
  • EIA and sustainable development
  • Need for EIA
     
18.00
Unit II: 
Process and methods of EIA
  1. Major Steps of EIA process
  • Screening
  • Scoping
  • Baseline information
  • Identification
  • Prediction
  • Evaluation

 

       2. Methods used in EIA

  • Adhoc approach
  • Overlay method
  • Questionnaire method
  • Checklist method
     
8.00
Unit III: 
Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
  • Major components of EIS including socio economic components
  • Writing an EIS
     
12.00
Unit IV: 
Environmental Auditing
  • Objectives of Environmental auditing
  • Importance of Environmental auditing
  • Steps of EA (outline)
     
12.00
Unit V: 
Case studies
  • Thermal power plants
  • Dams
  • Cement industries
  • Infra structure
     
Essential Readings: 
  1. Lang, Winfried (Ed.) (1995) Sustainable Development and International Law,
  2. London: Grahm and Tort.
  3. Mahhub ul Haq (2002) Human Development Centre, Human Development in South Asia, Oxford University Press.
  4. Smith, Keith (1996) Environmental Hazards- Assessing risk and reducing disaster, 2nd Edition, London & New York.
  5. Study Material(Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
  6. Rao, P.K. (2000) Sustainable Development, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers
  7. Warthen, Peter, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment
  8. Canter,L.W., Environmental Impact Assessment
  9. Khan, T.I., Environmental Impact Assessment
  10. Study Material(Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
     
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