Environmental Impact Assessment
Semester: 4th | Compulsory | ECTS: 5.0
Module leader: Drakou G. Evangelia
Module Objectives
The aim of this course is the understanding of the method of environmental impact assessment (EIA), aiming at the protection of the natural environment but also the society that depends on it. The multi-disciplinary content of this method, is viewed from the prism of Geography and its interdisciplinary approach. Through the course, the students will gain understanding of the basic institutional and theoretical content of the EIA method, while applying it through exercises and projects carried out during the course.
Course Contents
Theory: Institutional context of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EU Directives, local management). The process of EIA. Projects and activities that go through the EIA process. Environmental parameters that are assessed (e.g., soil, climate, landscape). Anthropogenic parameters that are assessed (e.g., land use, built environment, cultural and historical environment). Methods of assessing impacts (e.g., lookup tables, matrices, mapping, expert judgement, Battelle system). EIAs applied in various ecosystem types and various spatial scales. Use of EIA outputs in the process of decision-making.
Practicals: Exploration and analysis of EIAs. Exploration of ecological parameters. Exploration of social and economic parameters. Interdisciplinary assessment of the ecological and socio-economic parameters towards a holistic EIA. Analysis of policy objectives and adaptation to the different case studies. Critical reflection on the results of EIA.
Teaching and Assessment
The course is taught during three hours per week, with 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of practical exercises. The assessment happens through a written report and final exam.
Undergraduate Program of Studies
1st Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
1st Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Physical Geography | C | 5
- Historical Geography | C | 5
- Elementary Economics for Geographers | C | 5
- Introduction to Informatics | C | 5
- Introduction to Human Geography | C | 5
- Foreign Language Ι | FL | 5
2st Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Statistical Analysis for Geographers | C | 5
- Social Geography | C | 5
- Introduction to Cartography | C | 5
- Environment and Humankind | C | 5
- Academic skills and methodology of scientific writing | C | 5
- Foreign Language ΙΙ | FL | 5
2nd Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
3rd Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Environmental Management | C | 5
- Thematic Cartography | C | 5
- Qualitative Methods of Analysis in Geography | C | 5
- Economic Geography | C | 5
- Population Geography & Demography | C | 5
- Meteorology-Climatology | C | 5
4th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Political Geography | C | 5
- Urban Geography | C | 5
- Rural Geography | C | 5
- Photointerpretation-Remote Sensing | C | 5
- Hydrology – Water Resources management | C | 5
- Environmental Impact Assessment | C | 5
3rd Year
FIRST STUDY CYCLE
5th Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- Regional Development | C | 5
- Cultural Geography | C | 5
- Spatial Analysis | C | 5
- Geographical Information Systems I | C | 5
- Regional Planning | C | 5
- Oceanography | C | 5
SECOND STUDY CYCLE
6th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- Geographical Project | C | 5
- Geomorphology | C | 5
- 4 Elective Modules | Ε | 4x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Climate Change | Ε | 5
- Coastal Geomorphology | Ε | 5
- Biogeography | Ε | 5
- Quaternary Geology | Ε | 5
- Environmental Management Tools | Ε | 5
- Management of Natural Disasters | Ε | 5
- Geomorphological Mapping | Ε | 5
- Renewable Energy Sources | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Spatial Economics | Ε | 5
- Inequality, Discrimination and Sociospatial Hierarchies | Ε | 5
- Location Applications | Ε | 5
- Geographies of Poverty and Social Exclusion | Ε | 5
- Historical Geography of Ancient and Modern Times | Ε | 5
- Population: Economy and Politics | Ε | 5
- International Migration | Ε | 5
- The Economic History of a Globalized World | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Economic Geography | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Sustainable Urban Development | Ε | 5
- Safe Cities | E | 5
- Urban-Spatial Planning | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Geographical Information Systems ΙΙ | 5
- Geoinformatics Applications Development | Ε | 5
- GNSS Technology and Navigation | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Analysis | Ε | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Geography Didactics | Ε | 5
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Didactic Proposals and Assessment Designing for Geography Teaching/Learning at School | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective Ι | Ε | 5
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4th Year
SECOND STUDY CYCLE
7th Semester | Winter | 30 ECTS
- 6 Εlective Modules | Ε | 6x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Environmental Policy | E | 5
- Waste Management in the Circular Economy | E | 5
- Geoarchaeology | E | 5
- Fluvial Geomorphology | E | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Geography of Globalised Production Networks | E | 5
- Geography of the European Union | E | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Economic Analysis | E | 5
- Geopolitics | E | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Land Policy | E | 5
- Geography of Transport and Infrastructure | E | 5
- Spatial Analysis Application in Real Estate Management | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Remote Sensing Applications | E | 5
- Applied GIS | E | 5
- Statistical and Numerical Methods | E | 5
- Geoinformation in Environmental Managment | E | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective IΙ | Ε | 5
8th Semester | Spring | 30 ECTS
- 2 Εlective modules | Ε | 2x5
- Dissertation | Ε | 20
or alternatively
- 6 Εlective Modules | Ε | 6x5
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Set Ι - Physical Geography
- Climate Change | Ε | 5
- Coastal Geomorphology | Ε | 5
- Biogeography | Ε | 5
- Quaternary Geology | Ε | 5
- Environmental Management Tools | Ε | 5
- Management of Natural Disasters | Ε | 5
- Geomorphological Mapping | Ε | 5
- Renewable Energy Sources | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙ - Human Geography
- Spatial Economics | Ε | 5
- Inequality, Discrimination and Sociospatial Hierarchies | Ε | 5
- Location Applications | Ε | 5
- Geographies of Poverty and Social Exclusion | Ε | 5
- Historical Geography of Ancient and Modern Times | Ε | 5
- Population: Economy and Politics | Ε | 5
- International Migration | Ε | 5
- The Economic History of a Globalized World | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Economic Geography | Ε | 5
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Set ΙΙΙ - Spatial Planning
- Sustainable Urban Development | Ε | 5
- Safe Cities | E | 5
- Urban-Spatial Planning | E | 5
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Set IV - Geoinformatics
- Geographical Information Systems ΙΙ | 5
- Geoinformatics Applications Development | Ε | 5
- GNSS Technology and Navigation | Ε | 5
- Special Topics in Spatial Analysis | Ε | 5
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Additional Modules
- Placement | Ε | 10
- Geography Didactics | Ε | 5
- Themes in Geography | Ε | 5
- Didactic Proposals and Assessment Designing for Geography Teaching/Learning at School | Ε | 5
- Foreign Language Elective Ι | Ε | 5
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