Concepts and issues in environmental management: Objectives of EIAs/EHIAs; terminologies etc.
Statutory provisions of EIA in Zimbabwe; Brief on the Environmental and Natural Resources Act,
etc. Introduction to the EIA process: Screening; Scoping; Impact identification (forms of impacts,
data sources; sources of impacts etc.); Impact assessment (techniques and analysis tools);
Migratory measures; EIA report; Draft EIA reviews (assessing the quality of draft Environmental
Impact statement etc.); Project implementation; Decommissioning. Case Studies such as EIA of
water resources, energy development, mining, paper industry etc.
- Lecturer: Lesley Marisa