The course explains environmental impact assessment (EIA) and its application for safer industrial/project practices and minimizing potential environmental impacts. Principles of environmental legislation, Environmental management plan and EIA steps and Guidelines. Assessing and predicting potential environmental impacts of major development projects on the environment in its broadest sense. Applying EIA to infrastructure projects, such as power plants, desalination plants, refineries, highways, pipelines, dams, mines, airports, incinerators, and landfills etc. Specialist areas of EIA application include water quality, minerals, waste, hydrology, air quality, landscape, visual impact, ecology, community, and socio-economic aspects.
Course ID: SAFEN 620
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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