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FOR MASTERS’ DEGREE LEVEL COURSESAPPENDIX 11All Master Level Courses except Management and Commerce1. Course Title: Environmental Impact Assessment2.* Contact Hours: L: T: P:3.* Examination Duration (Hrs.): Theory : Practical :4.* Relative Weightage : CWS PRS MTE ETE PRE5.* Credit: 6.* Semester:7. Pre-requisite: NILAutumn Spring Both8. Details of Course:Sl.No.Particulars1. Introduction To Environment: Definition, scope, components,structure and composition. Environmental quality, monitoring andbase line data.2. Sustainable Development: Present and future development needs;exploitation of natural resources, environmental harmony,economic efficiency and social justice. Symbiotic relationship.Concept of carrying capacity.3. Environmental pollution due to increasing growth rate, populationand human interaction. Water, land and air pollution.4. Environmental Protection acts, Rules and Standards, EIAguidelines.5. Environmental Impact Assessment: Definition and scope,preliminary screening requiring EIA of projects. Impactidentification, Assessment of Impact; Impact Evaluation. Types ofEIA, rapid and comprehensive.6. Methods of environment impact assessment; ad-hoc method, mapsand overlays, check lists, matrix, cause condition impacts.7. Procedure For EIA Clearance: EIA review and screening; statelevel screening, clearance from DOE and MOEF.* These are to be decided by the respective University/BoardAHEC-IITR/Ua. Govt./syllabus/WR-HPD/2006ContactHours546654246