Environmental impact assessment

Mastering the skills and competence to understand phenomena and processes occurring in the environment during the engineering activities. Technical, non-technical aspects and environmental impacts associated with engineering activities.

Basic terms in environmental impact assessment, environmental impact assessment(EIA), scope, decisions on environmental conditions, conducting the EIA (groups of projects), authority which decides that the EIA is necessary, initiation the EIA procedure, authority who issues decisions on environmental conditions (EC), enclosures need to be attached to issue EC, report on the environmental impact, information sheet of the project, society participation, decision on environmental conditions (environmental decision), environmental impact reassessment,

1) LAWARDS Sulej & Wójcik; ”Environmental impact assessment in the investment process”Prepared at the request of Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency S.A.

2) Act of 3 October 2008 on the Provision of Information on the Environment and its Protection, Public Participation in the Environmental Protection and Environmental Impact Assessments (Journal of Laws No. 199, item 1227

3) The Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 9 November 2010 on types of projects likely to have a significant impact on the environment (Journal of Laws No. 213, item 1397)

4) Chosen Projects from: http://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/english/register/open/all.html

5) F. M. Dunnivant, "A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport…", John Wiley & Sons 2006

LO1 Is able to describe basics associated with environmental impact assessment

LO2 is able to explain principles of operation, choose basic equipment for environmental impact mitigation, assess or reassess impact on environment

LO3 is able to suggest ways of assessing impact from subject literature

LO4 Is aware of the non-technical aspects and environmental impacts associated with the engineering activities

evaluation student's exam on lecture content, preparation, presentation and discussion of the student's project