Assessment of Environmental Impact
Teaching Staff: To be announced
Course Code: ΤΠ-8001
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 8th
ECTS: 4
Teaching Units: 5
Teaching Hours: 5
Short Description:
- Introduction to the new legislative framework regarding the environmental assessment of projects and activities which are likely to have effects on the environment
- Basic groups in which projects and activities are classified
- Steps in conducting environmental impact assessment of projects and activities depending on the category to which they belong
- The control mechanisms in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
- Methodology, outline and contentslist of an environmental impact assessment
- The concept of synergism of environmental impacts from processes which interact so that the product of their effectsis greater than the sum of their separate effects
- Use of tools (e.g. Geographic Information Systems, maps, GPS devices, databases such as NATURA Viewer http://natura2000.eea.europa.eu/ and geodata http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata /) in conducting environmental impact assessments
- Type of accompanying documents required for conducting environmental impact assessments
- Qualitative content analysis of EIAs for various projects and activities in Greece
- Public engagement processes in EIAs, and appeal or the cancellationof an environmental impact assessment certificate
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