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Advanced Technical Training Systems:
technology assisted learning
Syllabus for "blended learning" course of about 90 hours of lectures plus exercises on
Environmental Impact Assessment:
Theory, methods, practice, examples
in strategic and environmental impact assessment
designed as a one-year, two semester course with two lecture series,
associated practical exercises, seminar (second semester),
an optional introductory block of classroom lectures;
implemented as a fully web-based distance learning solution
with embedded simulation models for practical exercises.
Course content/lecture topics:
- EIA INTRODUCTION and OVERVIEW
- Environmental Impact Assessment: EIA basics
- What is EIA/SIA ? Principles and terminology, history, regulations and policy framework
- Environmental Impacts: criteria, objectives
- Environmental sciences: an introduction
- SCIENCE BACKGROUND, TOOLS AND METHODS
- Laws of nature: physic and chemistry
- Assessment basics: logic of analysis
- First order logic, inference: IF THEN
- Analysis and calculus, revisited: solving equations
- Principles of statistical models
- Non parametric statistics
- Quantitative analysis: Epistemology revisited
- General Systems Theory (Bertalanffy)
- Cybernetics: feedback
- Systems dynamics (Forrester, Odum)
- Mathematical Ecology: (Lotka, Pielou)
- Basics of economy: valuation, costs, benefits
- Game theory, multi-attribute decision making
- Rational Decision making
- EIA PROCESS, METHODS, TOOLS
- Regulatory framework (US EPA, EU/EEA, WB, misc. national)
- Scoping and screening
- Project stages: Design, location, construction, operation, decommissioning
- Baseline, information management
- Predicting impacts: models and expert systems
- Scenario analysis
- Mitigation: principles and strategy
- Project monitoring, follow up
- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS, DOMAINS
- Principles of environmental sciences revisited
- Growth: linear, exponential logistic,
- Movement: spatial dynamics
- Spatio-temporal systems: discretization
- Land use dynamics (Markov state transition models)
- Cellular automata, Conways Game of Life
- Transport and dispersion
- Meteorology and climate (change ?)
- Urban and industrial air quality, long range transport
- Hydrology, water resources, surface and groundwater
- Coastal marine systems
- Ecological footprint, urban water supply
- Gravity models: explaining movements ?
- Transportation systems (O/D matrix, equilibrium)
- Uncertainty and error analysis
- Ecosystem Services
- Health Impact Assessment
- EIA APPLICATION EXAMPLES
including exercises with embedded on-line simulation models
- Site suitability, site selection: NYMBI
- Urbanization: land use dynamics
- Thermal power station: air pollution
- Industrial district: multi media
- Transportation systems
- Waste management
- Water resource IWRM, water quality
- Coastal water quality, ICZM
- Technological risk assessment (Seveso II)
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