SM 520 Environmental Assessment

This course is tailored for environmental scientists, marketing and project managers, economists, environmental lawyers and policy makers, but is also relevant to engineers, which addresses environmental assessment and its role in sustainability management. The course introduces students to issues and tools relevant to sustainability management practice such as environmental risk management, life cycle assessment, socio-economic impact assessment, environmental economics, total life cycle costing, decision making, resource management, environmental audits, and environmental management systems, along with an overview of the regulatory framework and methodologies used in environmental impact assessment. Students will learn from the course instructor and carefully selected materials in a soft-technical manner that is intended for adequate comprehension by students from diverse fields of study.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

EN 517

Prerequisite

Graduate Student or At Least Junior

Distribution

Environmental Engineering Program

Offered

Spring Semester