Environmental Impacts

Recommended Prerequisites

Chemistry, Soil Mechanics, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Water Supply and Drainage Systems, Urban and Regional Planning, Risk Analysis, Air Quality, Noise Control.

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods: theoretical for theoretical explanations; Theoretical and practical for conceptual and real-case discussions. Tutorial orientation for the development of case studies.

Learning Outcomes

- knowledge of the concepts, methodologies and tools for the environmental impact assessment and the strategic environmental assessment.

- understanding of the importance these processes and their historical evolution.

- capability for participating in teams for making and coordinating these studies and to establish a dialog with decision‑makers.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Principles, procedures and legal and institutional framework.

The Environmental Impact Assessment of Projects (objectives, organization and phases of the process).

Environmental Impact Assessment methods (checklists, matrices, networks, thresholds, expert methods, spatial analysis methods, simulation models, indicators and indices).

Sectorial methodologies for the identification, prediction, evaluation and mitigation of the impacts in different biophysical and socio-economics factors.

Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment (Plans and Programs).

Case studies.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Isabel Mendes Leal Pereira Pedroso de Lima

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Canter, L.W.,  Environmental Impact Assessment, McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Partidário, M.R., Guia para Avaliação Estratégica de Impactes em Ordenamento do Território, MCOTA DGOTDU, UNL, 2003

Partidário, M.R., Jesus, J.,  Fundamentos de Avaliação de Impacte Ambiental, Universidade Aberta, 2003.

Peavy, H.S., Rowe, D.R. ,Tchobanoglous, G., Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1985.