| Course title | |||||
| 環境アセスメント学 [Environmental Impact Assessment] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 2 | ||
| Department | Year | 3～ | Semester | 3rd | |
| Course type | 3rd | Course code | 01RN3279 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 錦澤 滋雄, 長岡 篤, 田中 章, 杉本 卓也, 飯塚 史乃, 村瀬 憲昭, 多羅尾 光徳 [NISHIKIZAWA Shigeo, NAGAOKA Atsushi, TANAKA Akira, SUGIMOTO Takuya, IIDUKA Fumino, MURASE Noriaki, TARAO Mitsunori] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | 3-211 | 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. Partially, some classes are conducted by practitioners such as a JICA expert. |
| 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 |
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On Friday 2:45－4:15pm Oct 04 Class 1 Introduction to the course, What is EIA? （Nishikizawa） Oct 11 Class 2 EIA legislative systems in Japan （Sugimoto) Oct 18 Class 3 Screening and Scoping （Sugimoto） Oct 25 Class 4 Impact prediction（Air pollution） （Nishikizawa） Nov 01 Class 5 Public Participation and communication （Izuka） ※ No class on Nov. 8 due to school festival Nov 15 Class 6 Alternative consideration（HEP） (Tanaka) Nov 22 Class 7 Impact prediction（Natural environment） （Tanaka） Nov 29 Class 8 Impact prediction（Landscape） （Tanaka） Dec 06 Class 9 Mitigation measures for urban developments (Nagaoka) Dec 13 Class 10 Urban Developments in EIA (Nagaoka) Dec 14(Sat) Class 11 EIA in local government、Midterm Exam. （Sugimoto） Dec 20 Class 12 EIA systems in foreign countries and SEA （Nishikizawa） Jan 10 Class 13 Renewable Energies and EIA （Nishikizawa） ※No class on Jan 17 Jan 24 Class 14 Environmental and Social Consideration （Murase） in International Cooperation I Jan 31 Class 15 Final lecture （Nishikizawa） |
| Prerequisites |
| No prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Materials are distributed at each classes |
| References |
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Edited by JSIA, 『Guidebook of Environmental Impact Assessment （環境アセスメント学入門）』. Koseishakoseikaku、2019 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 |
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Midterm test at the 10th class（30%）、Mini reports at each classes（70%） 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 |
| 9/5/2019 6:21:21 PM |