course outline

	Millennium Development Goals: The links with biodiversity.
	Causes of decline of the biodiversity: The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
	Relevance of valuing ecosystem goods and services in impact assessment.
	Global and national imperatives for pursuing biodiversity in impact assessment.
	A walk-through the different stages of EIA framework for sharing ‘how to’ mainstream biodiversity in the assessment framework.
	Introduction to tools and techniques for establishing biological/ecological baselines for evaluation of impacts on biodiversity.
	Importance of integrating economic valuation approach in biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment.
	Re-tooling the generic EA framework for integrating economic evaluation approaches for assessing impacts of economic development on biodiversity, ecosystem services and livelihoods.
	Introduction to a range of economic tools and techniques for valuing biodiversity.
	Best practice guidance tools.
	Defining mitigation and presenting the hierarchy of measures for mitigating impacts on biodiversity.
	Discuss range of best practice mitigation options including precautionary approaches.
	The concept of biodiversity offsets.
	Case studies demonstrating applications of offsets.
	Role play exercise (for understanding the dynamics of decision-making of an oil & gas development project).

Last Updated: January 16, 2014

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