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WHAT SHALL WE EXPLORE IN THIS SUBJECT?

1. Introduction to Man and Environment

WELCOME TO 2. Topographical change and
ENVIRONMENTAL environmental issues

STUDIES 3. Environmental Impact Assessment

(EIA) on Land Development
GLS 684 4. Environmental legislation

Welcome to GLS 684!

2. Topographical change and

1. INTRODUCTION TO MAN AND
ENVIRONMENT
• Naturalresources in relation to the
conservation of the natural
environment
• Ecological system
environmental issues
• Change due to geological, soil,
climatic and time factors
• Underground movement and slope
instability; the need for monitoring
• Environmental problems associated
with various kinds of land
development
• Air, water, noise pollution and waste

3. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

on Land Development 4. Environmental legislation
• Environmental effects caused
by development project • National Environmental Policy
• Nature of EIA, elements of EIA • Environmental Quality Act and
system and its effectiveness Environmental Quality
• Processes – planning,
Regulations
monitoring, auditing, pollution • Related International
control Environmental Convention
• The EIA Report – contents,
presentation and scope.

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HOW WILL YOU BE ASSESSED? HOW OUR LECTURE WILL BE

CONDUCTED?
1 Report - EIA • Subtopic given a week prior to lecture week -
Lecturer
1 Presentation- EQA 1974 BEFORE

2 Tests • Lecture on the subtopic for ¼ period - Lecturer

• Discussion on the subtopic for ¾ period -
DURING Students

• Notes taking from recording - Student

AFTER • Assessment - Lecturer

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WHY DO WE, THE GEOMATICIAN LEARN WHY DO WE, THE GEOMATICIAN LEARN
ABOUT ENVIRONMENT? ABOUT ENVIRONMENT?

Monitoring: Assessing absolute sea level change Mitigation: Reducing city/property energy
consumption and CO2 emission
Contribution of surveyor: Undertaking the
analyses of the tide gauge records, monitoring Contribution of surveyor: Supporting the policy
the local stability of the tides gauges using and decision makers with geographical
precise levelling techniques, determining the information assembled from cadastral and
regional stability of the land to which the tide other national geo-databases. These data
gauges are attached through the use of high include type of ownership, year of
precision GPS measurement techniques, and construction, and geographical location of
calculating absolute sea level change. city/property.

WHY DO WE, THE GEOMATICIAN LEARN TOPIC FOR NEXT WEEK (WEEK 2)
ABOUT ENVIRONMENT?

Adaptation: Spatial modelling, simulating the

effects of a landslide What is
Environmental
Studies

Collection of the airborne data and the LiDAR

data. The integration of the data into a GIS
package and then the resulting spatial What is an
“environmental
modelling of outcomes problem”?

Environmental
science is not
environmentalism

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TOPIC FOR NEXT WEEK (WEEK 2)

Renewable
Natural – NON Global
Resources Renewable Population
Resources

Ecological
Footprint

Sustainability: a goal for

the future