Subject Code: CE6L104	Name: Environmental Impact Assessment	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Prerequisite: None Concept of environmental impact, Introduction to Environmental impact assessment (EIA) – definitions, terminology and concepts, Evolution of EIA in the USA, Key features of the National Environmental Policy Act and its implementation and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) guidelines, Role of the USEPA, Evolution of EIA in India, Sustainable development, Generalised EIA process flow chart, Screening, Initial environmental examination (IEE), Scoping, Public participation. Environment Risk assessment, Pollution prevention and Waste minimization, sustainable development (SD), Life cycle assessment. Global Environmental Issues. EIA - Screening and scoping criteria, Rapid and comprehensive EIA, Impact assessment methods, checklists, matrices, quantitative methods, networks, overlay mapping, Impact prediction and evaluation, Legislative and environmental clearance procedures in India and other countries, Siting criteria, CRZ, Public participation, Resettlement and rehabilitation. Practical applications of EIA, EIA methodologies, Baseline data collection, Prediction and assessment of impacts on physical, biological and socio-economic environment, Environmental management plan, Post project monitoring, initial environmental examination (IEE), environmental impact statement (EIS), environmental appraisal, environmental audit (EA), Environmental impact factors and areas of consideration, measurement of environmental impact, organisation, scope and methodologies of EIA, case studies stressing physical aspects of environment, Evolution of EIA, EIA at project, Regional and policy levels, Strategic EIA, EIA process. Books Canter L., Environmental Impact Assessment, McGraw Hill. Asolekar S. R. and Gopichandran R. Preventive Environmental Management - An Indian Perspective Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (the Indian association of Cambridge University Press, UK). Rau G.J. and Wooten, C.D., Environmental Impact Analysis Handbook, McGraw Hill. Dhameja S. K., Environmental Engineering and Management, S. K. Kataria& Sons Anjaneyulu Y. , Environmental impact assessment methodologies, B.S. Publications World Bank Environmental Assessment Source Book, Environment Dept., Washington D.C. Welford R., Corporate Environmental Management, Earthscan Publications Limited, London. Sayre D., Inside ISO 14000: Competitive Advantage of Environmental Management, St. Louis Press, Florida.

Subject Code: CE6L104

Name: Environmental Impact Assessment

L-T-P: 3-0-0

Credit: 3

Prerequisite: None
Concept of environmental impact, Introduction to Environmental impact assessment (EIA) – definitions, terminology and concepts, Evolution of EIA in the USA, Key features of the National Environmental Policy Act and its implementation and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) guidelines, Role of the USEPA, Evolution of
EIA in India, Sustainable development, Generalised EIA process flow chart, Screening, Initial environmental examination (IEE), Scoping, Public participation.
Environment Risk assessment, Pollution prevention and Waste minimization, sustainable development (SD), Life cycle assessment. Global Environmental Issues.
EIA - Screening and scoping criteria, Rapid and comprehensive EIA, Impact assessment methods, checklists, matrices, quantitative methods, networks, overlay mapping, Impact prediction and evaluation, Legislative and environmental clearance procedures in India and other countries, Siting criteria, CRZ, Public participation, Resettlement and rehabilitation.
Practical applications of EIA, EIA methodologies, Baseline data collection, Prediction and assessment of impacts on physical, biological and socio-economic environment, Environmental management plan, Post project monitoring, initial environmental examination (IEE), environmental impact statement (EIS), environmental appraisal, environmental audit (EA), Environmental impact factors and areas of consideration, measurement of environmental impact, organisation, scope and methodologies of EIA, case studies stressing physical aspects of environment, Evolution of EIA, EIA at project, Regional and policy levels, Strategic EIA, EIA process.
Books

Canter L., Environmental Impact Assessment, McGraw Hill.
Asolekar S. R. and Gopichandran R. Preventive Environmental Management - An Indian Perspective Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (the Indian association of Cambridge University Press, UK).
Rau G.J. and Wooten, C.D., Environmental Impact Analysis Handbook, McGraw Hill.
Dhameja S. K., Environmental Engineering and Management, S. K. Kataria& Sons
Anjaneyulu Y. , Environmental impact assessment methodologies, B.S. Publications
World Bank Environmental Assessment Source Book, Environment Dept., Washington D.C.
Welford R., Corporate Environmental Management, Earthscan Publications Limited, London.
Sayre D., Inside ISO 14000: Competitive Advantage of Environmental Management, St. Louis Press, Florida.