ES290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Andrew Nikiforuk, Impact Assessment, Geomorphology
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Environmental assessment: assessment of impacts created from major resource projects such. Impact assessment and hazard planning as dams and mines (essential for improving environmental conditions globally) **de ne and reviewing the process of impact assessment. Large dams: mega projects which transform many areas of the world in a positive in way by providing power, water, food and recreational opportunities, and in a negative way by destroying soil reserves, hydrological cycles and chemical concentrations. Focus on chap 9 and 19= impact industries/projects have on environment. **downwind/downstream= example of how poor project design can lead to significant environmental impacts to the water/atmospheric systems, ultimately affecting biological system. Hazard assessment and management: spans from the physical processes of natural hazards such as volcanoes, to the geopolitical processes that lead to war and famine. ****major focus= case study of the major ood on the mississippi during 1993 (in the video.
