Environmental impact assessment (EIA)

obligatory courses

General knowledge of capacity and linear constructions, mining, ecology, geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry. Applied and dynamoc geology

Legal basis and essence of assessments of environmental impact in terms of research methodology and procedures required in Poland; types of documentation issued for the purpose of environmental impact assessment. Discussion of the environmental impacts of exemplary projects: mining, hydraulic engineering, linear construction, landfills and observing systems at various stages of the formation of the project, in particular with regard to the monitoring of inanimate nature.

1. The concept and legal basis for making assessments of investment projects on the environment, the protection of the environment.

2. Integrated permits, reports of environmental impact assessments and ecological reviews - the principles and scope of their execution.

3. Assessment of environmental impacts in the spatial planning of the area.

4. The principle of sustainable development in the assessments of impacts of projects on the environment (providing information about the environment and its protection, public participation in environmental protection, Natura 2000 areas).

5. The procedures for environmental impact assessments in the investment process.

6. Assessment of impacts associated with land surface deformations:

• basin subsidence, discontinuous deformations associated with underground mining,

• land subsidence due to drainage,

• macrolevellings,

• pits and dumps

7. The impact of anthropogenic soil:

• conditions of formation and occurrence,

• classification and division by A.Drągowski and by standards,

• technologies of managing

8. Impact of the waste management:

• storage technologies,

• mineral sealing - geological barriers, geosynthetics,

• security systems of landfills (sealing, drainage).

9. Vulnerability (sensitivity) of rocks and soils on the anthropogenic factors.

10. Geological hazards activated or caused by humans.

11. The impact of maritime building on the environment in the phase of construction and operation:

• changes of assignment of the area and the landscape,

• changes in the water,

• active geodynamic processes,

• clogging, bottom sediments,

• geological causes of disasters of dams.

12. The effect of linear objects on the environment, mainly geological:

Roads:

• division of roads and their role in environmental impact,

• roads and protected areas, procedures and assessments,

• embankments and excavations on the route of the road, engineering facilities

Pipelines.

13. Facilities likely to have significant effects on the environment - procedures, reports;

14. Impact of buildings on ecologically active surfaces;

15. The chemical and bacteriological pollution of waters and soils;

16. The impact of changing in time external factors on the historical and monumental buildings - examples from Egypt, Europe and Poland.

17. Reducing the environmental impact of devastated areas - reclamation and development.

18. Geological and environmental studies.

After listening to lectures the student identifies threats to the environment caused by human activity. He can prepare the documentation required by the law applying research and administrative procedures.