Environmental Impact Assessment Question Paper
Environmental Impact Assessment
Course:Bachelor Of Environmental Planning And Management
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
EPM 421: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
DATE: Wednesday 30th December, 2009 TIME: 8.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer QUESTION 1 and any other TWO.
• Suitable diagrams should be used wherever they serve to illustrate an answer.
Q1.
An Investor wants to put up an Industrial Plant for the manufacture of paper and
its derivatives for both local and external market. The Investor intends to
establish the paper manufacturing mill in a relatively wet and forested upper parts
of Laikipia District in the slopes of Mt. Kenya. A part from the paper mill, the
Investor will also provide infrastructure and social amenities in the region. In
view of the socio-economic and bio-physical environmental implications that may
result due to the proposal, there has been public debate particularly on the loss of
habitat/biodiversity and competition for scarce water resources in the region.
Assuming your consultancy firm has won a contract to undertake Environmental
Impact Assessment (EIA) study on this proposed project:
a)
Discuss the logical steps in the EIA process that your study team is likely
to follow in order to achieve the task assigned to you. Justify the
formation of the Interdisciplinary Team for this EIA study.
[12 marks]
b)
Who would you consider to be Key Stakeholders to participate in the EIA
study process? Give reasons for your answer.
[6 marks]
c)
State at least five (5) issues which should form the scope of the EIA study.
[5 marks]
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d)
Discuss factors that you may consider in order to determine the
significance of environmental impacts of the proposed project.
[7 marks]
Q2.
With reference to specific examples, explain how the following factors operate
either singly or in combination to determine the decision-making process in EIA:
a)
Profit-Making Values
[5 marks]
b)
Public
Interest
Values
[5
marks]
c)
Socially-Rooted
Values [5
marks]
d)
Ecologically-Rooted
Values
[5
marks]
Q3.
Discuss the Nature and Functions of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), indicating their entry points in the
Project Cycle.
[20 marks]
Q4.
With reference to suitable illustration, explain what you understand by the
following typology of environmental impacts of development projects:
a)
Direct
Impacts
[3
marks]
b)
Multiplier
Impacts
[5
marks]
c)
Cumulative
Impacts
[6
marks]
d)
Synergistic
Impacts
[6
marks]
Q5.
a)
What human rights does Environmental Management and Coordination
Act (1999) confer in respect to Environment?
[4 marks]
b)
Section 13 of Environmental Management and Coordination Act (1999) is
essential for enforcing the provisions of the Act as it defines
Environmental Offences and the Penalties in respect of such offences. In
view of this, state environmental offences relating to:
i)
Pollution
[3 marks]
ii)
Environmental
Impact
Assessment
[3
marks]
iii)
Records
[3 marks]
iv)
Environmental
Inspection
[7
marks]
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