Environmental Impact Assessment

To prepare students to work with legislation and project planning pertaining to EIA at national, EU and international levels.

The subject is related and complementary to the base objectives of: The Fundamentals of Environmental Science, Ecology, Environment and Society, Environmental Economics, Nature Protection and Agriculture and the Environment.

• Introduction (basic concepts, aims and history of EIA, procedures, applications and limits of EIA, legislative framework)
• EIA as a mechanism of environment protection (principles and aims of environment protection, role of EIA in administrative procedures, examples of good and bad practices)
• EIA reporting (format and content of the report, presentation of results, validity and applicability of reports)
• EIA and planning (strategic environmental assessment, spatial – protective planning, role of EIA in economic planning)
• Administrative aspects of EIA (legislation, guidelines and administrative procedures, standards, participants in the procedures, auditing, community participation)

Knowledge and understanding:
At the conclusion of the course the students should be able to:
• appreciate the purpose and role of EIA in the decision-making process;
• be aware of the technical and social/political limitations of EIA;
• be aware of the administration and procedures that apply in the student’s jurisdiction;
• be aware of the options for estimating environmental and social impacts;
• know the format of an EIA Report (Environmental Impact Statement, Environmental Statement);
• appreciate the issues that affect the quality of the EIA Report;
• be aware of the purpose of developing follow-up procedures, and the options for designing these procedures.

John Glasson, Riki Therivel, Andrew Chadwick. 2007. Introduction to environmental impact assessment. Routledge, 423 str. Catalogue E-version

Attendance & participation (20 %), group project work (40 %), written examination (40 %)

Docent za področje Okolje/Assistant professor in the field of Environment

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2. OARGA-MULEC, Andreea, MIHELIČ, Rok, WALOCHNIK, Julia, GRIESSLER BULC, Tjaša. Composting of the solid fraction of blackwater from a separation system with vacuum toilets - Effects on the process and quality. Journal of cleaner production, ISSN 0959-6526. [Print ed.], 2016, vol. 112, part 5, str. 4683-4690, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.080. [COBISS.SI-ID 8230009]

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4. MULEC, Janez, OARGA-MULEC, Andreea, SCHILLER, Edmund, PERŞOIU, Aurel, HOLKO, Ladislav, ŠEBELA, Stanka. Assessment of the physical environment of epigean invertebrates in a unique habitat : the case of a karst sulfidic spring, Slovenia. Ecohydrology, ISSN 1936-0584, Oct. 2015, vol. 8, iss. 7, str. 1326-1334, ilustr. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eco.1585/abstract, doi: 10.1002/eco.1585. [COBISS.SI-ID 37903917] ol. 69, iss. 2, str. 293-306, ilustr., doi: 10.1007/s00248-014-0491-5. [COBISS.SI-ID 37578285]

5. TODT, Daniel, JENSSEN, Petter D., KRIVOGRAD-KLEMENČIČ, Aleksandra, OARGA-MULEC, Andreea, GRIESSLER BULC, Tjaša. Removal of particles in organic filters in experimental treatment systems for domestic wastewater and black water. Journal of environmental science and health. Part A, Toxic/hazardous substances & environmental engineering, ISSN 1093-4529, 2014, vol. 49, iss. 8, str. 948-954, doi: 10.1080/10934529.2014.893795. [COBISS.SI-ID 4696939]

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