Questions :
Q1. Using the article provided in the class what are major environmental issues facing future generations of Australians? What are the means by which Australia is now tackling these issues? Is energy an important issue to tackle?
Q2. Describe the steps one needs to follow to obtain approval for a project that requires EIA and approval in one of your chosen state. Please choose the state as per the guide below. If you want to change some steps in the procedure what would you change?
State selection guide: NSW (ID ending in 0-1), SA (ID ending in 2-3), VIC (ID ending in 3-4), QLD (ID ending in 5-6, WA (6-9).
Q3. How did practitioners overcome the pitfalls of EIA? Select two pitfalls to answer your question. Use journal articles/book chapters (other than the one given in the class) to describe this.
Q4. Consider a chosen development activity from a list posted and conduct environmental impact assessment. Your EIA should include all the steps taught in the class.
Every step will be marked equally. You should show your progress in the class and the sketch/handwriting/half workouts within the class should be signed and submitted with the report (15 %).
All referred materials should be cited. If you are working with another student it should be specified.
Q1 It is related with Article provided in Q1 folder. You can also get help from slides 1 .Not too long just to fulfill 5% weightage criteria
Q2 you can either write in detail like a summary with each step explained or you can make flow chart as explained in articles .whatever is easy
My state is Western Australia. I have provided official WA govt: procedure manual .
Please mention the steps which Can be changed and why. chooseany 2-3
Q3 I have provided slides Q3 folder, slides from 16. This is the lecture material
You can use this web source as well for real life EIA problem and solution
Case - What Are The Main Problems Of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
Q4
PLEASE READ slides in Q4 FOLDER CAREFULLY. This is the most important part in this question you have to choose any project and perform EIA. There are three stages involved in it .see folder Q4 ,slides are provided .For this you can choose any project like
Construction ,
Water management
Waste management
Solar energy or any other project related with Australian sustainability issues. Google can be use to explore more topics
Slides are important .I will recommend to choose a simple project which does not need detailed Environmental Impact Assessment,EIA, and finish at stage 2 ,Preliminary Assessment. You can check Article 1 and Article 2 in Q4 folder for Preliminary Assessment idea and also use them for references .