Environmental Impact Assessment

44B0824

Bachelor

German

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

The assessment of environmental impacts caused by planning and projects as well as measures to reduce the negative impacts on the environment form an important field of activity in the professional field of landscape planning. Environmental and nature conservation law provides for various, partly interlocking assessment procedures and instruments for this purpose. This module teaches the respective tasks (derived from the current legal basis), the technical processing steps and the methodological procedures as well as the integration of the assessment instruments in the corresponding planning and decision-making procedures.

1. procedures and instruments of environmental impact assessment and management. 
1.1-Strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes (SEA); 
1.2 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); 
1.3 FFH impact assessment; 
1.4 Impact regulation under nature conservation law, accompanying landscape conservation planning; 
1.5 Special species protection assessment;
1.6 Technical contribution to the Water Framework Directive (WFD)
1.7 Technical contribution on climate protection
2. allocation of the environmental planning contributions to procedures that serve to decide on the permissibility of projects. 
3. relationship (demarcation and commonalities) between SEA, EIA, FFH impact assessment, impact regulation and special species protection assessment; 
4. methods for identifying, describing and assessing the impacts of interventions on the protected goods in the context of environmental assessments, the impact regulation and the species protection assessments; 
5. determination of the type and scope of necessary avoidance, compensation and replacement measures, measures to ensure coherence; 
6. planning and implementation of species protection and compensation measures; 
7. success control in impact regulation, FFH and species protection assessment as well as monitoring in SEA and EIA.

8. examples of the application of environmental assessment and impact regulation using various types of planning and projects at different procedural levels.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• oral exam or
• Written examination

• Homework / Assignment

oral exam or written examination, 2 hours

Students who have successfully studied this module have the necessary basic knowledge of common environmental planning assessment procedures and instruments.

The students are familiar with the differences between the various test methods, know the associated test instruments and the necessary technical processing steps.

Above all, target and methodological knowledge are received, generated and reflected upon.

Students who have successfully studied this module use a range of standard methods to process and present data in a structured way for environmental impact assessment and management tasks, to forecast environmental risks and to develop appropriate avoidance and compensation measures in a comprehensible way and to transfer them to corresponding use cases.

Especially in the context of the currently constantly amended laws in the context of land turnaround, planning acceleration, etc., students discuss the effectiveness of the instruments of environmental planning.

Students can use different oral and written forms of communication in connection with instruments of environmental impact assessment and environmental impact management.

Students learn the role of planners and how to use a professional set of methods for formal landscape planning.

• Hanusch, Marie Luise

• Hanusch, Marie Luise