Unit 1 Environmental Management

6 lecture hours

• Environment and Development
• Sustainable development
• managing the environment
• essentials of an environment policy and environment act, Environmental issues
• priority tradeoffs and scanning approach priority settings

Unit 2 Concept of Environmental Impact Assessment

4 lecture hours

• Concept of Environment
• Concept of Environmental impact Analysis and assessment
• development of Environmental Impact Assessment
• legislative basis
• detailed contents of EIA/EIS
• Environmental attributes

Unit 3 Institutional aspects of Environmental Assessment

• Interagency coordinates
• enrolment of affected groups, and local NGOs
• Strengthening capabilities financial intermediately lancing

Unit 4 Management of Environmental Assessment, cost and time to prepare EIA, sources of

2 lecture hours

• financing, and procurement of consultants

Unit 5 Environmental costs and benefits

4 lecture hours

• Estimation of market value of environmental components
• analysis of projects and policies with consideration of environmental cost and benefits
• priority values and value function graphs
• valuing the impacts in monetary terms
• monetary objective decision making
• issues of risk and uncertainty

Unit 6 Impact assessment methodologies

• Choosing a methodology
• categorizing methodologies
• review criteria
• different assessment methods with relevant examples. 10 Subject Code: 3721801 w.e.f