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Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment:
Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Impact Analysis, Social Impact Assessment (SIA, Strategies Environmental Assessment (SEA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Environmental Audits, definition of other useful terms in EIA.

Scope and purpose of EIA:
Introduction to environmental impacts linked to various stages of development projects, contents of an ideal EIA, general applicability of EIAs, current state of EIA in India and other Asian countries.

Environmental Legislations and Regulations:
Salient features of important environmental legislation, statutory obligations, environmental clearance procedures and GOI requirements.

EIA Procedures:
Introduction to administrative and technical requirements, procedural steps in EIA-scoping, screening. Baseline study formats, evaluation of impacts on wildlife species and habitats, determination of impact significance criteria.

Methods & Tools:
Primary data-tools and secondary data sources, legislative documents, environmental guidelines and databases and impact indicators, EIA software. Introduction to various impact assessment methods-checklist, matrices, networks, indices and weight scaling techniques and their scope and limitations; Environmental Mitigation Planning, Principles and practices, mitigatory approaches and feasibility analysis. Environmental Auditing and Monitoring Concepts, objectives and usefulness. Environmental Economics. Introduction to some recent approaches in environmental economics for determination of monetary values of environmental goods and services.

Environmental Impact Assessment Report:
Guidelines for developing formats for preparing and reviewing EIA reports and Environmental Management Plans, Case studies.