BIOL 5100 - Environmental Impact Assessment

3 hours

Principles and practices of preparing environmental impact assessments and statements. Addresses how to understand the effects that projects, plans and policies have on the environment and the impact those effects have on specific resources, ecosystems and human communities. Methods for identifying impacts, describing the affected environment, predicting and assessing impacts and selecting the proposed action from a group of alternatives for meeting specific needs will be examined. A detailed review of an environmental assessment and environmental impact statement are required.

Prerequisite(s): None.