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
  • Major Steps of EIA process
  • Screening
  • Scoping
  • Baseline information
  • Identification
  • Prediction
  • Evaluation
  • 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: 
  • Lang, Winfried (Ed.) (1995) Sustainable Development and International Law,
  • London: Grahm and Tort.
  • Mahhub ul Haq (2002) Human Development Centre, Human Development in South Asia, Oxford University Press.
  • Smith, Keith (1996) Environmental Hazards- Assessing risk and reducing disaster, 2nd Edition, London & New York.
  • Study Material(Handbooks) of Sikkim Manipal University for Science Health and Technology for the Degree of Post Graduation in Ecology and Environment
  • Rao, P.K. (2000) Sustainable Development, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers
  • Warthen, Peter, Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Canter,L.W., Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Khan, T.I., Environmental Impact Assessment
  • 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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