環境影響評価制度論

Week 1 -Course Overview -Self introduction and environmental problems in my country. -Group discussion on what is "environmental” problems? -Assignment #1: The most serious current “ecological” environmental problems in my country. Week 2 -Presentation #1: The most serious ecological environmental problems in my country. -Group discussion on the most serious ecological environmental problems in my country. -Group discussion on “obstacles to environmental conservation activities in my country.” -Lecture: Obstacles to environmental conservation, i.e., “Environmental Nexus” -Group work -Explanation in advance: Next week’s field trip to an estate development project in Yokohama -Assignment #2: Process of Environmental Impact Assessment in my country. Week 3 -Field trip: An estate development project in Yokohama -Group work -Assignment #3: How do I manage the balance between the economic development pressures and ecological conservation in my country? Week 4 -Presentation #3: How do I manage the balance between the economic development pressures and ecological conservation in my country? -Group discussion on mechanisms for balancing between the development projects and ecological conservation. -Lecture: A quantitative ecological impact assessment case study in Yokohama -Applying Habitat Evaluation Procedure into an estate development project- -Group work: Making a Habitat Suitability Index Model (1) -Assignment #4: What are HEP, SI models and HSI models? Week 5 -Presentation #4: What are HEP, SI models and HSI models? -Lecture: Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP), Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) Models and Suitability Index (SI) Models. -Group work: Making a Habitat Suitability Index Model (2) -Assignment #5: Make a HSI model. Study HEP accounting (Calculation of HEP) Week 6 -Group work: Making a Habitat Suitability Index Model (3) -Quiz: HEP accounting (Calculation of HEP) -Assignment #5: Make a HSI model. Week 7 -Lecture: Off-site compensatory mitigation=biodiversity offset -Group discussion -Roundup

Lectures with PowerPoint slides, field trip, presentations, group discussion, assignments. Field trips of Japanese “Satoyama” landscape will be conducted if applicable.

Participation on discussion 50% Course projects 50%

If you can read Japanese or Korean language, you should buy following textbook. Japanese textbook: 田中章著：HEP入門―“ハビタット評価手続き”マニュアル（朝倉書店, 2011）ISBN978-4-254-18036-7　C3046 Korean textbook: Akira　Tanaka:　Theory　and　Practices　for　Habitat　Evaluation　Procedure　(hanulbooks.co.kr,　2015)　ISBN978－89－460-4952-9

●Diori L. Kreske, Environmental Impact Statements: A Practical Guide for Agencies, Citizens, and Consultants, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0-471-13741-3 ●Larry W. Canter, Environmental Impact Assessment, MacGraw-Hill Education, 1996, ISBN 0070097674, 9780070097674

Field trips such as EIA site of “Satoyama” landscape might be conducted if applicable.

All English texts can be downloaded at http://www.yc.tcu.ac.jp/***** ●Akira TANAKA（1997）Evolution of Mitigation Provisionsin Japanese Environmental Impact Assessment Systems, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center. ●Tanaka, Akira (2001) Changing Ecological Assessment and Mitigation in Japan. Built Environment, Vol.27, No.1, p35-41. ●Tanaka, Akira(2008) How to assess "no net loss" of habitats - A case study of Habitat Evaluation Procedure in Japan's Environmental Impact Assessment. International Workshop on Sustainable Asia 2008 -Sustainable water Resource and Environment- Proceedings, Wuhan, China. CD-ROM. ●The need for integrative policy as an innovative approach in biodiversity conservation in Asia, http://www.iges.or.jp/*****

An instructor with work experience as a practitioner for Environmental Impact Assessment, Mitigation Policies, Biodiversity Offsetting (Ecological Restoration) as Compensatory Mitigation measures in both governmental office and private consulting firm will give lectures using these experiences.