EASC 333 — Environmental Impact Assessment
Earth Science · University of Ghana
Evolution of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) processes, the concept of sustainable development, national legislation on the environment and the EIA process. Identification and assessment of environmental impacts of development and their implication on overall decisionmaking process. Tools of impact assessment and mitigation: scooping studies, demographic, climatic, health, and ecological, social, economic impact assessment. Environmental management systems: environmental auditing and reporting. Land disturbance and reclamation, project decommissioning and. Case studies in mining and other geology environmental management.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- EASC 310 — Geological Field Methods II
- EASC 317 — Environmental Geochemistry
- EASC 321 — Environmental Pollution
- EASC 323 — Soil Mechanics
- EASC 324 — Economic Geology
- EASC 325 — Fundamentals of Hydrogeology and Hydrology
- EASC 326 — Aerial Photo Interpretation
- EASC 328 — Structural Geology and Tectonics
- EASC 331 — Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences
- EASC 332 — Introduction to Petroleum Geology
- EASC 334 — Organic Geochemistry
- EASC 335 — Applied Geophysics
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).