Book Report/Review, Environmental studies

Review an environmental impact assessment report
Project description
Assessment Item 2:

Environmental Impact Assessment Assignment
Weighting: 40%

Overview:

Introduction
The purpose of this assessment is to ensure that you have reviewed a professionally prepared environmental impact assessment report and critically assessed it for adequacy. This assignment will build on your critical thinking and report writing skills.

In this assignment you need to access a completed Environmental Impact Assessment Report in NSW AUSTRALIA. You can choose to review the whole document or target a specific aspect. In your report (no longer than 3, 000 words) if you choose to be broad, you can review the document as a whole and consider how all the various aspects come together to deal with risk. Or if you so choose you can delve more deeply into one particular aspect (specific) and consider how the risks are dealt with from the singular point of view. Much would depend on the depth of analysis given in the document you select. Both are equally valid ways of answering the assignment question
Using the EIA report, determine if the tool addresses environmental risk, how and your assessment of its adequacy.
You are to write an assessment report. You should pay particular attention to identification of environmental risks, how the risks have been determined, the way that risks are to be managed etc. You should identify your expectations and inadequacies found. Importantly, you should make a judgement on whether the report provides sufficient information, is robust and able to support its recommendations. That is, does it provide you with sufficient evidence for you to make an informed, defendable decision on environmental risks and how they are to be managed?
Ensure that you refer to your readings and any additional references to support your assessment.
Format
Your assignment must be typed (using a standard font) and include diagrams, pictures and tables and be no longer than 3000 words in length.
CRITERIA

Professional Presentation -General quality and style
€¢ Spelling, grammar and style; is this work to the standard that is expected of university students? is this document readable, well presented and easy to understand?
/ 10
Quality of assessment report
€¢ Have you demonstrated that you have read and understood the report?
(How well the EIA document investigated and identified the issues; context and values to be protected (e.g; agriculture; loss of water quality; threat to tourism etc. )
/9
€¢ Can you demonstrate that you understand the application of the assessment tool being reviewed?
(Critiquing the document €“ How well the EIA Document identify the risks and mitigation measures (whether mitigation measures are sufficient to eliminate or control risks) created by the Development
/9
€¢ Have your thoughts been clearly articulated?
(Coherence of the document)
/4
€¢ Can you use references to support your arguments/conclusion?
(Well referenced)
/4
€¢ Have you developed an argument in your report that leads the reader to a logical conclusion?
(Presenting sufficient evidence)
/4