Environmental and Social Impact Assessment at Project and Strategic Levels

This course is about the role of Strategic Environmental Assessment in guiding sectoral and regional planning towards sustainability, supporting strategic decision, and its links with the Environmental Impact Assessment practice. Participants are trained in integrating systems thinking, cumulative effects, and strategic thinking.

IWA Members can avail a 40% discount on the ConnectPlus platform!

The course is designed for students, researchers, and professionals in water resource management, hydrology, remote sensing, environmental science, and related fields who wish to get applied remote sensing skills and to enhance their technical expertise in using remote sensing data for water resources assessment.

• Develop the capacity to conduct and environmental and social impact assessment or strategic environmental assessment.

• Compare the EIA and SEA processes (methods, similarities, differences, limitations and complementarity) and their role in helping achieve SDGs by addressing social, economic and/or environmental issues at different scales.

• Apply selected methods for impact assessment with a system thinking approach to differentiate how it increases its contribution to sustainable development, compared to the conventional disciplinary approach.

• Discuss how the involvement of stakeholders in impact assessments contributes to the effectiveness and sustainability of projects and strategic interventions.