Intended learning outcomes
- To know the scope of the preparation of Environmental Impact Studies (EIS) as tools for sustainability in pursuing projects.
- Understand the methodology of elaboration of EIS and analyze the descriptors of the environmental impacts addressed.
- Interpret the phases of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), its procedures and instruments in the Portuguese System.
- To know the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) methodologies and to assess the importance of its relationship with the EIA as a fundamental contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- To know the 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs.
- To know the challenges of the transition from the linear economy model to the circular economy model.
- To know the tools of corporate sustainability and its relation to EIA.
- Acquire skills in applying business sustainability tools while enhancing companies' competitive capacity including the adoption of ethical and socially responsible standards aligned with the SDGs.