Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Environmental Impact Assessment
The University of Adelaide
This online course provided an overview of environmental impact assessments and explored their applications. This included the rationale behind EIA supported by its history and why it matters, the EIA process which covered the different forms of assessment, the nature of impacts which looked at different impacts and how to define them, and the relationship between people and EIA processes, as well as the future of EIA.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jennie Shaw
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic)
The University of Adelaide
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the forms of environmental assessment needed based on the extent and scale of different impacts.
- Explain the social, economic, and environmental impact assessment processes.
- Identify the process of undertaking an environmental impact assessment in different contexts.
Syllabus
Week 1: Rationale behind EIA
- What are the origins of the environmental impact assessment?
- Why are environmental impact assessments important?
- What is an environmental impact assessment?
Week 2: The EIA process
- Why would you need different forms of assessment?
- What are the different forms of assessment?
- How do you decide which assessments to use?
Week 3: Understanding the nature of impacts and how to assess them
- How do you define impact?
- What are the different impacts?
- Ranking impacts
Week 4: The relationship between people and EIA
- How do you align EIA assessment processes with people?
- What does putting theory into practice look like?
- Future environmental impact assessment - integrated impact assessments
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Issued on 9th February 2025
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