1. Environmental Impact Assessment EIA (Topic 2)

2. BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM Three elements 1. Baseline data 2. Assessment of impacts 3. Monitoring changes

3. Baseline data PURPOSE: to provide a description of the status and trends of environmental factors against which predicted changes can be compared and evaluated to provide a way of measuring actual change by monitoring once a project has been initiated

4. Example -If a project has the following goals and objectives: Achieve 20 percent literacy Train 100 teachers Encourage all literacy program graduates to read something at least once a day -Then the appropriate determinate baseline data would consist of the following: Assessment of current literacy rates Information on the number of trained teachers already available Data on current reading habits of people in the community

5. Task What baseline data would need to be collected if a new road was being planned? Hint- what would the objectives be? What information would you need to collect to assess if objectives have been met?

6. Possible objectives - reduce congestion - reduce noise pollution - reduce air pollution - reduce travel times Baseline data - measurement of current congestion (times, vehicle numbers...) - assessment of current levels of noise pollution - measurements of air pollution - Assessment of current delay times for road users

7. Assessment of impacts Read the sheet and complete the table of possible impacts Next lesson...role play!