MILJØ360 Impact and Risk Assessment
Credits (ECTS):5
Course responsible:Deborah Helen Oughton
Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås
Teaching language:Engelsk
Limits of class size:Minimum 6, maximum 25.
Course frequency:Annually from 2026, unless there are more than 10 requests for the June block of 2025.
Nominal workload:125 hours
Teaching and exam period:This course starts in the June block. This course has teaching/evaluation in the June block.
About this course
Learning outcome
Knowledge: Understand the basis for evaluations of the ecological impact of pollutants on people and the environment. Understand the connection between science and legislation in the management of pollutants. Be able to identify and assess the most important uncertainties related to environmental risk assessment and management.
Skills: Apply different methods and approaches to assess the effects and consequences of environmental stressors.
General competence: Be able to put environmental risks and stressors in a wider context and understand the interaction between different factors.
- Lectures, demonstrations, use of "model of assessment" tools, measurement.
- Lectures
- MILJØ200, RAD210 or FMI310
- RAD320. Background in Ecology or Nuclear and Environmental Sciences.
Total assessment
- Group-work and individual exercises counts 30%
- Oral presentation of case study counts 70%
Both assessments have to be passed.
Grading system: Passed/Not passed
- External examiner at the oral exam.
- Group exercises
Lectures; about 50 hours
Demonstrations of tools and practical exercises: approx. 20 hours
Self Study, group work: 55 hours
- M-RAMI, M-MILJØ, M-KJEMI
- 5 ECTS reduced for KJM360
- Science