121-532 Environmental Impact Assessment

Formerly available as 121-003/420 Social Environmental Assessment. Students who have completed 121-003/420 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

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. Additionally, a strong emphasis is placed on the practical implementation of principles using a field-based approach.

Fourth year students: Individual reports, group assignments and essays totalling 5000 words. Masters students: Individual reports and essays totalling 6000 words.

• B J Downes et al, Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters. Cambridge University Press 2002.