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Course code: IPS20244o17Semester: 2017/2018 winter
Name: Strategic Environmental Impact Assesment
Major: Land Management
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak, mgr inż. Katarzyna Sabura
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group.If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English. Contact person: mgr inż.Katarzyna Sabura
Learning outcomes: Student knows methods and techniques used in spatial change assessment, knows administrative procedures related to environmental impact assessment. Student knows that responsibility for a state of the environment lies with public administrative units, local government, social organizations and private individuals. Student has knowledge on particular issues related to environmental protection, environmental processes, and methods and techniques used in environmental protection. Skills Student is capable of prognosing and assessing environmental impacts of plans and programmes related to spatial planning, land management and development policy. Student can properly organise, analyse and present data using GIS, and make a decision based on them. Student is able to provide mitigation solutions against identified adverse environmental impact and can reasonably justify their usage.
Competences: Student is able to organise team work properly. Student can interact with members of the society and effectively convince them to established spatial solutions. Student is aware of individual and social responsibility for a state of the environment, can offer solutions to limit the environmental risk.
Prerequisites: none
Course content: A course introduces (Polish and EU) jurisdictional and institutional arrangements of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), relationship between SEA and Environmental Impact Assessment. The course provides an overview of the concepts, methods, issues and various forms and stages of SEA process. The course covers the key elements of the SEA prognosis preparation for plan and programmes related to spatial planning and land management. Public participation in SEA process will be discussed. The course is designed to use GIS and organize and present spatial and environmental data in SEA. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Environmental Impact Assessment System. Rationale and objectives of SEA. Relations between SEA and EIA. Differences between SEA and EIA. Jurisdictional arragements of SEA (in Poland and EU). Plans and programmes under SEA. Resignation from the conduct of a SEA, conditions of that resignation, and premises to conduct SEA. Administrative procedure of SEA. SEA prognosis for particular spatial plans. Scope of SEA prognosis. SEA in terms of the Natura 2000 site. Institutional arrangements of SEA. Public participation in SEA. SEA as public contract (issues related to SEA prognosis providing).
Recommended literature: Current legal act and guidelines in Poland and EU. The Relationship between the EIA and SEA Directives, Final Report to the European Commison, European Commission, 2004. Dalal-Clayton B., Sadler B., Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience. Earthscan, Londyn, 2005. Wood C. et al., Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning: An International Evaluation, Earthscan, Londyn, 2005.
Assessment methods: Project – SEA prognosis Assessment of team work in project two written tests, oral exam
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