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RE 354 — Environment and Development

BSc BSc Real Estate · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Objective Students are expected at the end of the course to have an enhanced understanding of the intricate relationships between the environment and development and appreciate the links between resource development and sustainable environmental management. Contents: Meanings of environment and development; Agents of environmental change; Concepts of sustainable development: weak and strong sustainability; Development activities and their impacts on the environment; e.g. construction activities such as housing, roads and dams; mining, etc; Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): History of EIA in Ghana; legislation and practice. Methods of EIA, procedures and outcomes, including relevant case studies; Environmental Protection Measures: regulation-based and Incentive-based instruments.

Credits
3
Level
Year Three
Semester
Semester Two

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