RE4006 Development Impact Assessment Syllabus:
RE4006 Development Impact Assessment Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
To understand the relationship between social impacts and changes in community
To enable the students to have an understanding of EIA review & management
To expose the students to methods, tools and Systems in EIA
To sensitize students Environmental Impact Assessment in largescale infrastructure projects
To impart knowledge to students on the impact of technology & its effect on development.
UNIT I IMPACT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
Definition of social impact assessment. Social impact assessment model and the planning process. Rationale and measurement for SIA variables. Relationship between social impacts and change in community and institutional arrangements. Individual and family level impacts. Communities in transition – neighborhood and community impacts. Selecting, testing and understanding significant social impacts. Mitigation and enhancement in social assessment.
UNIT II ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMET & MANAGEMENT PLAN
Environmental Management Plan – preparation, implementation and review – Mitigation and Rehabilitation Plans – Policy and guidelines for planning and monitoring programmes – Post project audit – Ethical and Quality aspects of EIA. Environmental costing of projects.
UNIT III COMPONENTS AND METHODS
Matrices – Networks – Checklists – Connections and combinations of processes – Cost benefit analysis – Analysis of alternatives – Software packages for EIA – Expert systems in EIA. Prediction tools for EIA – Mathematical modeling for impact prediction – Assessment of impacts –air – water – soil – noise – biological –– Cumulative Impact Assessment – Documentation of EIA findings – planning – organization of information and visual display materials – Report preparation. EIA methods in other countries.
UNIT IV ASSESSMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
EIA related to the following sectors – Infrastructure – construction and housing Mining – Industrial – Thermal Power – River valley and Hydroelectric – coastal projects-Nuclear Power, Hill area Development and CRZ.-EIA for coastal projects.
UNIT V TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACT ANALYSIS
Historical and socil origins of technologies – development markers – positive and negative consequences- ethical issues- PROPTECH services and platforms – Lead Generation – AI – data Analytics – ICT – cloud based tech – Robotic process automation – Impact on sales process – Decision making – Asset selection process – “Butterfly effect”
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
CO1 The students will be sensitized to communities in transition, social impacts & institutional arrangements
CO2 The students will be exposed to EIA, its evaluation and report making and reviewing process.
CO3 The students will acquire knowledge on need, significance and methodology of EIA
CO4 The students will develop skills to assess infrastructure projects in the perspective of environmental impact assesment
CO5 The students will analyse the issues, impacts based on technological interventions
REFERENCES:
1. Canter, L.W., Environmental Impact Assessment, McGraw Hill, New York. 1996.
2. Lawrence, D.P., Environmental Impact Assessment – Practical solutions to recurrent problems, Wiley-Inter science, New Jersey, 2003.
3. Nick Harvey, Beverley Clarke, Environmental Impact Assessment: Procedures and Practices, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
4. Petts, J., Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Vol., I and II, Blackwell Science, London, 1999.
5. World Bank –Source book on EIA