| Course title | |||||
| 環境アセスメント学 [Environmental Impact Assessment] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01RN3279 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 錦澤 滋雄, 松本 郁子, 飯塚 史乃, 田中 章, 多島 良, 杉本 卓也, 古郡 ゆう子 [NISHIKIZAWA Shigeo, IIDUKA Fumino, TANAKA Akira, TAJIMA Ryo, SUGIMOTO Takuya, FURUGOHRI Yuko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an important tool for public and private development and planning decisions toward creating a sustainable society. In this course, students learn EIA theories, methods, regulations and its historical process with several case studies. Scientific aspects such as predictions and evaluation methods as well as democratic aspects relating to public participation will be explained. We will also explore “strategic environmental assessment” as new areas of EIA. |
| Expected Learning |
| (1) To be able to explain what is EIA, and learn/understand followings; (2) purposes and methods of screening and scoping, (3) mini/concise assessment (4) EIA system in Japan and foreign countries (5) survey, forecasting and evaluation methods (6) strategic Environmental Assessment (7) roles of EIA for the international cooperation |
| Course schedule |
|
On Friday 2:45－4:15pm Oct 06 Class 1 Introduction to the course, What is EIA? （Nishikizawa） Oct 13 Class 2 Screening and Mini EIA （Tajima） Oct 20 Class 3 Screening and Scoping （Sugimoto） Oct 27 Class 4 Public Participation and communication （Izuka） ※ No class on Nov. 10 due to school festival Nov 17 Class 5 Impact prediction（Air pollution） （Nishikizawa） Nov 24 Class 6 EIA legislative systems in Japan （Sugimoto) Dec 01 Class 7 Alternative consideration（HEP） (Tanaka) Dec 08 Class 8 Impact prediction（Natural environment） （Tanaka） Dec 15 Class 9 Impact prediction（Landscape） （Tanaka） Dec 22 Class 10 EIA in local government、Midterm Exam. （Sugimoto） Jan 05 Class 11 EIA systems in foreign countries（US） （Furugori） ※No class on Jan 12 Jan 19 Class 12 EIA systems in foreign countries（UK） （Tajima） Jan 26 Class 13 Strategic Environmental Assessment （Furugori） Feb 02 Class 14 Environmental and Social Consideration （Matsumoto） in International Cooperation I Feb 06 (Tue) Class 15 Final lecture （Nishikizawa） |
| Prerequisites |
| No prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Materials are distributed at each classes |
| References |
|
S. Harashina, 『Environmental Impact Assessment new edition （改訂版 環境アセスメント）』. Hosodaigaku Kyoiku Shinkokai、2000 J. Glasson, R. Therivel, A. Chadwick, Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment 4th edition, Routledge, 2012 S. Harashina, 『What is EIA? （環境アセスメントとは何か）』Iwanami、2011 (In Japanese) Akira Tanaka：『Introduction to HEP（ＨＥＰ入門 新装版）』、Asakura、2012(In Japanese) |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Midterm test at the 10th class（30%）、Mini reports at each classes（50%）、Final Report（20%）、Class participation will be reflected on the grade |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| - |
| Course keywords |
| Environmental Impact Assessment, Public Participation, Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| Office hours |
| Contact to nishikizawa.s.ab@m.titech.ac.jp |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 9/27/2017 6:12:17 PM |