EV5002:03
Environmental Impact Assessment
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 24 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Dr M Fenton (Townsville campus); Assoc. Professor S Turton (Cairns campus).
This subject reviews the development, design and implementation of ecological and social impact assessments. It examines the political and legal framework for impact assessment and the range of procedures and techniques that can be applied to determine the impact of major developments.
Learning Objectives:
- know what environmental impact assessment is, how it is currently applied to aid decision-making and how it could be applied to aid decision-making;
- be able to distinguish the components of environmental impact assessment and what part they can play in the overall process;
- be able to recognise good and bad practices in scoping. impact assessment and prediction, public participation and monitoring studies in environmental impact assessment;
- have improved skills at working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Assessment by group project (26%); written assignments (12%); essay (12%); a three-hour examination (50%).