121-420 Environmental Impact Assessment

Admission to Office for the Environment postgraduate programs, development studies postgraduate programs, or fourth year honours in environmental studies and planning degrees or by permission of the subject coordinator.

This subject prepares students for environmental management roles by providing them with the principles of how human impacts on the environment might be detected and managed. The principles will be placed within the legal and social contexts of environmental impact assessment. At the completion of the subject, students should understand three aspects: prediction of the kind of changes that might occur with human activities; the design and implementation of proper monitoring programs that can detect changes; and assessment of those changes.

Individual reports, group assignments and essays equivalent to 5000 words.