Environment Sustainability and Impact Assessment detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IEM 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 Industrial Engineering & Management 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IEM 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to IEM Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of environment sustainability and impact assessment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESMENT 9
Environmental impact assessment objectives – rationale and historical development of EIA -Conceptual frameworks for EIA Legislative development – European community directive -Hungarian directive.
Unit II
ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING 9
Strategic environmental assessment and sustainability appraisal – Mitigation, monitoring and management of environmental impacts- Socio economic impact assessment.
Unit III
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Unit IV
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT 9
Life cycle assessment; Triple bottom line approach; Industrial Ecology. Ecological foot printing, Design for Environment, Future role of LCA, Product stewardship, design, durability and justifiability, measurement techniques and reporting
Unit V
SUSTAINABLE URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 9
Spatial economics – Knowledge economy and urban regions.
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- Explain the concepts of Environment Sustainability and trained to make decision related to Environment.
- Make decision that has an effect on our environment
- Evaluate the basics of environmental policy, planning and various legislation Get valuable information for exploring decisions in each life stage of materials, buildings, services and infrastructure.
- Explain the Life cycle assessment of Environmental sustainability.
- Explain sustainable urban economic development.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Clive George, C. Collin, H. Kirkpolarice – Impact Assessment and sustainable development – Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007
- Robort B Gibsan, Sustainability Assessment, Earth Scan publishers, 2005
- Simon Dresner, The principle of sustainability – Earth Scan publishers, 2008
- Canter, R.L., “Environmental Impact Assessment”, McGraw Hill Inc., New Delhi, 1996.
- Shukla, S.K. And Srivastava, P.R., “Concepts In Environmental Impact Analysis”, Common Wealth Publishers, New Delhi, 1992.
- John G. Rau And David C Hooten “Environmental Impact Analysis Handbook”, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1990.
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