course outline
Millennium Development Goals: The links with biodiversity. | |
Causes of decline of the biodiversity: The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. | |
Relevance of valuing ecosystem goods and services in impact assessment. | |
Global and national imperatives for pursuing biodiversity in impact assessment. | |
A walk-through the different stages of EIA framework for sharing ‘how to’ mainstream biodiversity in the assessment framework. | |
Introduction to tools and techniques for establishing biological/ecological baselines for evaluation of impacts on biodiversity. | |
Importance of integrating economic valuation approach in biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment. | |
Re-tooling the generic EA framework for integrating economic evaluation approaches for assessing impacts of economic development on biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods. | |
Introduction to a range of economic tools and techniques for valuing biodiversity. | |
Best practice guidance tools. | |
Defining mitigation and presenting the hierarchy of measures for mitigating impacts on biodiversity. | |
Discuss range of best practice mitigation options including precautionary approaches. | |
The concept of biodiversity offsets. | |
Case studies demonstrating applications of offsets. | |
Role play exercise (for understanding the dynamics of decision-making of an oil & gas development project). |
Last Updated: January 16, 2014