TECHNIQUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in FOREST AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

Location:

NUORO

Disciplinary Sector:

Rural Construction and Environmental Land Management

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ROSNATI Chiara

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Prerequisites are not required

AF code:

ZZ100920

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Organization of team works, to verify and implement the capacity of:
• Identifying the potential environmental effects of project proposals
• Applying the main environmental assessment tools and
• living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in position where communication is important and in situations where teamwork is essential

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Analysis and assessment of the main impacts generated by projects related to the following sectors: forestry management, power plant, solid and liquid waste management, linear infrastructures, etc. Environmental Impact Study and Environmental Report Drafting. Identification of mitigation/compensation mesaures and monitoring tools. Communication skills for stakeholders involvement in participation processes

Contents

International, national and local laws on environmental Assessment
Essential components in environmental assessment
Main tools for the identification of valued environmental components and potential impacts (checklists, matrices, networks, GIS, multicriteria analysis etc.)
Cumulative effects assessment
Environmental and health risk assessment
Relative risk assessment methodolgy applied to illegal landfills
Alternatives comparison
Mitigation/compensation strategies.
Monitoring measures
Information and participation models in Environmental assessment
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) applied to the main sectoral and territorial plans. Limits and perspectives of SEA in decision-making processes

Recommended Bibliography

Textbooks and presentations are available in a google-docs folder

Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars and practice exercises on field. Presentation of international, national and local case studies

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