Environmental Impact Assessment and Remote Sensing

Paper Code: 
25DENV 805
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Impart knowledge and develop interdisciplinary skills for conducting Environmental impact assessment for new development projects and understand the role of EIA in sustainable development
  2. Promote environmentally sound and sustainable development through the identification of appropriate enhancement and mitigation measures for development projects
  3. Understand applications of remote sensing and GIS in Environmental conservation

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

25DENV 805

Environmental Impact Assessment and  Remote Sensing

Upon completion of this

course, student will:

CO148: Apply the concept of Sustainable development in conducting the process of EIA

CO149: Develop skill to conduct Environmental impact assessment independently by examining the environmental consequences of projects prior to its establishment

CO150: Evaluate the development projects and suggest mitigative methods for sustainable

development          

CO151: Execute Environmental Audit Independently for sustainable management of industrial processes.

CO152: Compute    knowledge of remote sensing, GIS and GPS for environmental

Conservation

CO153: Contribute effectively in

course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussions, Case studies

Learning activities for the students: Report writing, Power point presentations, Assigned questions, Weekly class assessment

Power point presentations, Assignments, Class test, Semester end examinations
 

 

10.00
Unit I: 
EIA and Sustainable Development
  • Objectives and principles of EIA
  • Concept of Sustainable development
  • Relationship of EIA to sustainable development
  • EIA Notification 2006 and 2020
  • Concept of Environmental Social Governance (ESG)
12.00
Unit II: 
Process and Methods Used in EIA
  • Procedure of EIA: screening, scoping, description of project, collection of baseline, information, impact identification, prediction and evaluation, post project monitoring.
  • Methods used in EIA :- Checklists, Matrices, Networks, Adhoc, Overlays, BEES (Battelle Environmental Evaluation System)
  • Environment Management Plan.

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Prediction and assessment of Impacts
  • Prediction and assessment of impacts on
    • Air environment
    • Water environment
    • Noise environment
    • Biological environment
    • Cultural (Architectural, Historical and Archeological)
    • Socio-economic environment
  • Basics of Environmental Modeling
    • Role of Modeling in Environmental Science
    • Model Classification- Deterministic Models, Stochastic Models, Dynamic Models, Steady State Models

 

14.00
Unit IV: 
Environmental Auditing and preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
  • Methods and procedures of EIA report (EIS) preparation
    • Planning Phase
    • Detailed planning phase
    • Writing phase
  • Environmental Monitoring: Purpose and planning considerations
  • Environmental Auditing: Definition, functions, benefits and costs
  • Auditing stages (process)
  • EIA of Energy Projects (Thermal power plants, Nuclear power plants and Hydroelectric projects)
  • Mining Projects
  • Cement Industry
  • Concept of CDM

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Remote sensing and its applications
  • Concept of Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR): EMR properties, EMR wavelength regions and their applications
  • EMR-Atmospheric Interactions: Scattering, absorption, transmission, atmospheric    windows
  • EMR-Earth Interactions: Concept of spectral signature and Spectral Reflectance Curves
  • Types of Remote Sensing: Passive, Active, Thermal and Microwave
  • Sensors and Orbits: Types and characteristics of Sensors, types of sensor resolutions, types of satellite orbits
  • Application of remote sensing in EIA:
    • Urban/rural area planning and landuse
    • Soil, water and air quality monitoring
    • Geology and geomorphology
    • Forestry and ecology

 

Essential Readings: 
  • 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.
  • Canter, L. (1995). Environmental Impact Assessment. McGraw Hill.
  • Rao, P. (2000). Sustainable Development: Economics and Policy. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Glasson, J., Therivel, R., & Chadwick, A. (2012). Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (Natural and Built Environment Series). Routledge.

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Morris, P. and Therivel. R.(2005). Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment: 2nd EditionRoutledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
  • Eccleston.C.H.(2012). Environmental Impact Assessment. A Guide To Best Professional Practices: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
  • Wathern, P. (1988). Environmental Impact Assessment.Theory And Practice. Routledge

,Taylor & Francis Group

 

http://www.environmentwb.gov.in/pdf/EIA%20Notification,%202006.pdf

JOURNALS

  • Journal of Science of the total Environment
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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