Check out this new EVEN/CVEN course:
CVEN and EVEN 4834/5834: Environmental Impact Assessment
Session A: June 4 - July 6, 2018
Instructor: Paola Almeida Guerra, Associate Professor, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
3 semester hours, Section 100, Class No. 18810/18811
Course description:Ìý
This course describes the methodologies used for impact analysis of Engineering projects considering the relationship cause-effect between the activities of the project and the affected environmental components. The student will also have the opportunity to learn international environmental laws for the context of proper judgement elements needed to evaluate environmental impacts in developing economies. Finally, the course proposes development methodologies of the Environmental Management Plan focused on the establishment of mitigation measurements for environmental impacts.
Paola Almeida Guerra is an Ecuadorian scientist with formal graduate training in Environmental chemistry from the University of Trieste, Italy. She is the cognizant leader of environmental sciences program at ESPOL, and was recently awarded a Fulbright award to study the mitigation of mining pollution in the United States, serving her Fulbright tenure here at CU Boulder’s, Civil Engineering Department in 2014. Dr. Guerra has a notable record of translational activity, which moves environmental science results to the regulatory sector.
Ìý
