Environmental Impact Assessment detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of environmental impact assessment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Impacts of Development on Environment – Rio Principles of Sustainable Development-Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) – Objectives – Historical development – EIA Types – EIA in project cycle -EIA Notification and Legal Framework.
Unit II
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 9
Screening and Scoping in EIA – Drafting of Terms of Reference, Baseline monitoring, Prediction and Assessment of Impact on land, water, air, noise, flora and fauna – Matrices – Networks -Checklist Methods – Mathematical models for Impact prediction.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SOCIO ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT 9
Baseline monitoring of Socio economic environment – Identification of Project Affected Personal -Rehabilitation and Resettlement Plan- Economic valuation of Environmental impacts – Cost benefit Analysis
Unit V
MONITORING STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS 9
Environmental monitoring – guidelines – policies – planning of monitoring programmes; Environmental Management Plan- Post project audit ; Case studies of EIA of developmental projects in Food, Fertilizer and Petrochemical industry.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- Understand the concept of environmental Impact assessment
- Know various components and assessment techniques of EIA.
- Understand Environmental management plan
- Understand socio economic assessment plans
- gain knowledge about EIA monitoring studies through various industrial exposure
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Becker H. A., Frank Vanclay, “The International handbook of social impact assessment” conceptual and methodological advances, Edward Elgar Publishing,2003.
- Barry Sadler and Mary McCabe, “Environmental Impact Assessment Training Resource Manual”, United Nations Environment Programme,2002.
- Judith Petts, “Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment Vol. I and II”, Blackwell Science New York, 1998.
- Ministry of Environment and Forests EIA Notification and Sectoral Guides, Government of India, New Delhi, 2010.
- Urban, L.V., Stracy, G.S., Environmental Impact Analysis, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1991.
- Rau, J.G. and Wooten, D.C., Environmental Impact Assessment, McGraw Hill Pub. Co., New York, 1996.
- Morris, P., and Therivel, R., Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis, 2009.
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