Environmental Impact Assessment

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Environmental Impact Assessment
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Overview

Familiarizing with the methods used in EIA and the challenges encountered in the assessment process

Duration	12 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Environmental Impact Assessment
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NPTEL
Highlights

Earn a certificate after completion of the course
Hands on learning with real world scenarios

Environmental Impact Assessment
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NPTEL
Course details

Skills you will learn

Project Management Environment Management

Who should do this course?

UG, PG, PhD Students, academicians and professionals

More about this course

In this course students will learn to evaluate the likely environmental impacts of a proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse
EIA is basically a tool used to assess the positive and negative environmental, economic and social impacts of a project
Students will learn to predict the environmental impacts of a project in the pre-planning stage itself so that decisions can be taken to reduce the adverse impacts

Environmental Impact Assessment
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Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to Environment Management & EIA

Week 2: Legal, Policy & Regulatory Framework

Week 3: EIA Procedure - Scoping & Screening and Establishing Baseline Conditions

Week 4: EIA Methodologies

Week 5: Connectedness: connected spaces and subspaces, Connectedness of the real line, Intermediate value theorem

Week 6: EIA Methods, Tools and Techniques

Week 7: Public Involvement in EIA

Week 8: Impact Management - Mitigation & Preparation of Environment Management Plans (EMP)

Week 9: EIA Reporting & Review of EIA Quality

Week 10: Decision Making & Project Management

Environmental Impact Assessment
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Faculty details

Prof. Harshit Sosan Lakra

Dr Harshit Sosan Lakra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning She is trained as an Architect and has done Environmental Planning from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University Ahmedabad, Gujarat