Assignment
1. Please see Individual Assignment Document 1, available from Canvas. You have carried out an Environmental Impact Analysis on your project. Document 1 is the analysis of the main identified impacts of your project by specialist consultants through its pre- construction, construction, operational and decommissioning phases. These impacts fall into six categories:
a. Ecological/Biodiversity
b. Risks
c. Heritage (Archeology & Palaeontology)
d. Air Quality
e. Avifaunal (Impact on Birds)
f. Noise
See Document 1 for full details.
2. You have to choose where in the world your project will be based, the exact location. It will need to be within 30km of a river/watercourse/wetland and hydrologically connected to them. Alternatively, it can be within 30km of a town. Whether you choose a river/wetland, or a town you need appropriate descriptive data: e.g. for rivers/wetland either chemical and/or ecological data, for a town population, AQ, socioeconomic data. The resources folder might be useful to see examples of useful types of data. As far as you are aware try not to choose the same site as anybody else.
3. The aim of your assignment is to describe and justify which of the identified impacts you will mitigate, and how. You are unlikely to have the space to mitigate all of the impacts, so you need to make hard choices about which you consider more important for your location, and why. This will be the largest and most significant part of your assignment.
4. For those impacts you choose not to mitigate, you will need to outline your strategic approach to how they could be mitigated and by who ,and why they might do this.
5. We live in a very beautiful and graceful world, but also a very imperfect world, and you are likely to find this assignment challenging at a number of levels. This is implicit in the design.
Specification of your assignment
1. Your size limit is five (5) A4 sides plus another for references. Deadline is on Canvas.
2. For complete clarity you are required to hand in your Assignment as a single document that comprises a number of specific sections, below:
· Section 1 will contain only the location of your project, the name and country/area of your town or river/wetland area, it will include a schematic location map with the location of your project and the town or river/wetland marked on it. It will include major topographical features, e.g mountains, rivers, coastlines etc. This section will have one or two references: the website/page or paper that you have used to identify your site and one containing the data required for that site. Note these and all references in this work should be cited in the text, a bibliography is not acceptable.
· Section 2 Identify the impacts you will mitigate. Justify your choices in terms of environment/ecological health, human health, and resources.
· Section 3 Identify the impacts you will not mitigate. Outline a strategic approach to the mitigation of these impacts and where the resources might come from.
· Each section should have its own references.
3. The resources folder includes a number of useful ‘goto’ references that will be useful. There are examples of rivers with the type of chemical data that could be useful in the Studies folders to help you choose/identify from the other rivers what the answers to your questions about your river might be. Again, reference which example you have used and why it seems appropriate.