Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Principles, Practices & Applications

October 26 - October 30 \ 2025 : Dubai 

Duration: 5 Days | Format: In-Person / Language: English

Introduction

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a critical tool for sustainable development, ensuring that potential environmental consequences of projects are evaluated before decisions are made. With growing regulatory demands and societal expectations, professionals must possess the knowledge and skills to lead and manage the EIA process efficiently.

This advanced training course equips participants with both technical and practical competencies in EIA, aligning with international best practices (e.g., IFC, World Bank, UNEP) and local regulatory frameworks. From screening and scoping to impact prediction, stakeholder consultation, and environmental management planning, the course adopts a hands-on and case-based approach.

Participants will analyze real-world case studies, work through simulation exercises, and gain exposure to tools and techniques used in EIA, including GIS, baseline data analysis, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies. This training is particularly relevant for infrastructure, energy, industrial, and transport projects in the Middle East and beyond.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the full EIA lifecycle and its role in project planning and approval.
• Apply legal and institutional frameworks governing EIA in local and international contexts.
• Conduct environmental baseline assessments and predict impacts.
• Develop effective Environmental Management Plans (EMP).
• Integrate stakeholder engagement strategies into the EIA process.
• Use practical tools (e.g., checklists, matrices, GIS) to improve impact analysis and reporting.

Who Should Attend :

Engineers

Planners

Environmental Officers

Project Managers 

Public Sector Regulators

Course Methodology

The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.  

Each module covers different aspects of using Game-Based Learning and Gamification in education. Coursework will incorporate

your existing knowledge and experience and provide helpful learning environment with a good mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. On all outlines will apply Skills for Game-Based Learning and Gamification and practiced in hands-on, collaborative way within an international group setting

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:

• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
• 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions

Pre and Post Test

5-Day Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction to EIA and Regulatory Frameworks

• History and evolution of EIA
• Objectives, principles, and types of EIA
• International standards (e.g., World Bank, IFC) vs. national laws
• EIA workflow: Screening and scoping
• Stakeholder roles and responsibilities
• Case Study: EIA screening of a highway expansion project near a protected area

Day 2: Environmental Baseline Studies and Data Collection

• Physical, biological, and socio-economic components
• Techniques for baseline data collection
• Seasonal considerations and sampling strategies
• GIS and remote sensing applications in EIA
• Quality assurance of baseline data
• Case Study: Baseline assessment for a desalination plant project in a coastal region

Day 3: Impact Identification, Prediction, and Evaluation

• Methods: Checklists, matrices, network diagrams, GIS overlays
• Prediction techniques: air, water, soil, noise, biodiversity
• Cumulative and indirect impact analysis
• Determining significance and magnitude of impacts
• Case Study: Predicting and evaluating environmental impacts of a waste-to-energy facility

Day 4: Mitigation Measures and Environmental Management Plans (EMP)

• Hierarchy of mitigation: avoid, reduce, remedy, compensate
• EMP structure and contents
• Monitoring indicators and compliance tracking
• Integration with construction and operation phases
• Case Study: Designing a mitigation plan for a hydropower project in a sensitive ecosystem

Day 5: Public Participation, Reporting, and Decision-Making

• Stakeholder mapping and engagement techniques
• Public consultation best practices
• Structuring the EIA report (non-technical summary, main report, appendices)
• Review process and decision criteria
• Post-EIA monitoring and audits
• Case Study: Community engagement and public hearing process for an industrial zone development

Schedule:

08:30 – 10:15 First Session

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

Fees:

The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:

4.250 USD$