IIFM Experience

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IIFM - Experience

• Yogesh Dubey
• Associate professor
• Indian Institute of Forest management
• Post box 357, Nehru Nagar
• Bhopal (MP), India
• Email ydubey_at_iifm.ac.in

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Objectives

• Rational of Environmental Impact assessment and
  its scope
• To bring together many and varied aspects of EIA
• EIA methodologies
• Introduction to rapid field techniques
• Identification of impact indicators for
  determining key environmental issues
• Recognition of ecological issues and their
  attendant human aspects
• Criteria based logical evaluation of impact
  significance
• Introduction to mitigation, restoration and
  enhancement options
• Demonstration of best practices of environment
  Impact Assessment and biodiversity Impact
  Assessment from range of case studies.

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Pedagogy

• Class room teaching
• Case based teaching
• Exercises

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Evaluation

• Component
• Mid-term 35
• End term 35
• Assignment 20
• Quiz 20

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Course content

• Module I
• Introduction to EIA, Principles and Process
• Environmental Legislation
• EA in relation to other environmental policy
• EIA notification and other laws related to EIA

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Module II

• EIA methodologies in use
• Baselines in EIA
• Environmental and Ecological parameters
• Baselines for select Developmental Projects

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Module III

• Human dimensions in EIA
• Social issues in EA
• Public participation in EA
• Tools and techniques to carry out SIA and
  effective public participation in EA decision
  making framework

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Module IV

• Environmental Management Planning
• Impact Prediction and Impact analysis
• Mitigation planning
• Developing EMPs
• EIA report writing

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Students also take up courses on

• Environmental policy law and planning
• Environmental management systems

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Students who take up this course

• Engineers
• Social science
• Commerce graduates
• Biological sciences
• Science
• humanities

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Where do these students go

• Industry
• NGOs
• Funding agencies
• Consultant organizations
• Academics

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challenges

• More illusions if the balance not struck properly
  between what is being taught and what is being
  practiced.
• Teachers have to be extra careful in this regards
• Good examples vs Bad examples
• Less More

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• Very Poor industry Academic interface
• Lack of more newer live examples
• Financial Constraint in terms of giving live
  experience of EA
• Industry and project proponent closed to sharing
  information regarding disclosing their ongoing
  EAs
• Unavailability of good number of EA reports for
  discussion class.