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Environmental Impact Assessment course
This is a 3 week (8h/day), 6 ECT, MSc level course. The course is composed of three parts: i) theoretical lectures on methods used in the EIA process, ii) first-hand experience through direct contacts with local stakeholders and iii) hands on training by writing an EI statement. Students are expected to work in teams on an EIA report about a topic they select themselves. Basic knowledge of environmental engineering and/or system-thinking is mandatory for this class.
The three first lectures of the EIA 2020 course are provides below (the EIA course of 2020 was entirely online due to Covid19):
- Day 1: the course concept, the environmental challenges and environmental disasters
- Day 2: The EIA process, legislation, concepts, screening and scoping
- Day 3: Tools used within EIA (e.g. LCA, Casual Mapping, Stakeholder analysis, modeling), two case studies (1: City buses in Bern and 2: Hydropower in the Alps)
- More videos are available upon request
The concept of this course was presented at EGU2017:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-4876.pdf
