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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
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:
- 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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