環境影響評価制度論

7 weeks in total as follows: All classes are in the afternoon of Friday except April 14th (Monday). Face to face class including the first class of April 14th Monday. Time: the third (13:00-14:45) and fourth (14:55-16:40) periods in the afternoon Room 514 Komaba #5 Bldg. ■Week 1: April 14th Orientation of this course. Self-introductions. "The most serious natural environmental problem in my country." Lecture: Nature of global environmental issues and "Sustainable Development". Discussion: What is global environmental issue and its ultimate adverse impact to human beings? What is the relationship between those problems and EIAs? Assignment #1: Research on "EIA procedure in my country." Purpose, procedure. Assignment #2: Select a protected animal species for Habitat Suitability Index, (HSI) model making. Common name, scientific name (Family, Genus, Species) ■Week 2: April 18th Presentation of assignment #1 Lecture: EIA procedure Discussion: What is the most important process in EIA procedure. Group project #1: Making HSI model of a protected animal species. Group project #2: EIA case study. ■Week 3: April 25th First Interim report presentation on group projects #1 and #2. Lecture: HEP and its application into EIA Discussion: HEP reveals residual adverse impacts onto habitat. Then what should we do next? Assignment #3: What are "Nature Positive" and “No Net Loss Policy”? Continuously Group project #1: Making HSI model of a protected animal species. Continuously Group project #2: EIA case study. ■Week 4: May 2nd Presentation of assignment #3 Lecture: Kachituli Oxbow Restoration Project in California. -"Compensatory mitigation" ("biodiversity offset") for the residual adverse impacts onto habitat. "Mitigation hierarchy" and "no net loss" policy. Discussion: Compensatory mitigation (biodiversity offset) and Nature Positive. Continuously Group project #1: Making HSI model of a protected animal species. Continuously Group project #2: EIA case study. ■Week 5: May 9th Second Interim report presentation on group projects #1 and #2. Lecture: Mitigation Banking (Biodiversity Banking) Discussion: Comparison between Japan's case and California's case in terms of quantitatively saving habitats. Assignment #4: Prepare for HEP accounting test Continuously Group project #1: Making HSI model of a protected animal species. Continuously Group project #2: EIA case study. ■Week 6: May 16th Examination: HEP accounting to estimate “no net loss”, etc. Lecture: “Satoyama” ecosystems in Japan Discussion: “No Net Loss”, “Nature Positive” and HEP Continuously Group project #1: Making HSI model of a protected animal species. Continuously Group project #2: EIA case study. ■Week 7: May 30th Final Interim report presentation on group projects #1 and #2. Epilogue of this course

Lectures with PowerPoint slides and short movies, assignments and presentations, group discussion and examination. Please be careful that this course is face to face classes including the first class of April 14th Monday.

Participation on class and discussion 40% Assignments 30% Examination 30%

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 In page.390 to 433 of this book, HEP, Habitat Evaluation Procedure is explained as the habitat based method of biological impact prediction and assessment.

Notice: The first class, orientation of this course, will be held on April 14th Monday. This is a face to face class at Room 514 Komaba #5 Bldg. If you are interested in this field, please pre-search meanings of the following words and it will be helpful to understand this class. Mitigation measures, avoid mitigation, minimize mitigation, compensatory mitigation (biodiversity offset), mitigation hierarchy, biodiversity banking (mitigation banking), no net loss policy, Nature Positive, 30 by 30, TNFD, ESG investment, habitat, ecosystem, biodiversity, species, life requisites, HSI model, HEP.

■■English reference papers of this course, ●AKIRA TANAKA(2024) Environmental Impact Assessment Systems and its Conditions to Achieve ”Nature Positive, Book of abstract the 16th Asia Impact Assessment Conference (AIC2024) in Denpasar, Bali,13-21 https://drive.google.com/***** ●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/***** Most of other English texts can be downloaded from http://www.yc.tcu.ac.jp/***** ■■Japanese texts can be downloaded from http://www.yc.tcu.ac.jp/***** ●田中章（2024）ネイチャーポジティブ時代の都市開発に伴う環境アセスメントの役割, 都市問題2024年9月号（第115巻第9号）49-65. ●田中章（2024）ミティゲーション・ヒエラルキーと代償ミティゲーション（生物多様性オフセット）－ネイチャーポジティブの鍵－, 環境アセスメント学会誌2024 年 22 巻 1 号 38-45.

An instructor with work experience of a practitioner as a consultant for Environmental Impact Assessment, Mitigation Policies, Ecological Restoration as Compensatory Mitigation (biodiversity offset) measures in both governmental office and private consulting firm for more than 40 years will give lectures using these experiences.