ENVS 3335 - Issues in Environmental Assessment

(3 credits) 3 hours lecture

This course will review and analyze provincial, national and international environmental assessment issues. Important representative case studies will be reviewed. Guest speakers will be drawn from appropriate organizations. Current methodologies in environmental impact assessment will be covered, including overviews of Risk Assessment, Cumulative Effects Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment. The advantages of moving towards Comprehensive Risk Assessment and Comprehensive Policy Support Assessment will be critically discussed. These integrated decision methodologies will be necessary to support industrial ecology infrastructure and be crucial to making progress towards economic and environmental efficiency at all system levels.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of Semesters 1, 2, and 3 of the Biogeochemical Stream or equivalents or consent of the department.