Environmental Impact Course
This course provides essential skills for assessing and mitigating environmental impacts in small hydropower projects, covering river ecology, impact analysis, mitigation strategies, permitting, monitoring, and stakeholder engagement to ensure sustainable development.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Environmental Impact Course equips you with practical skills to plan, assess, and monitor small hydropower projects that perform well ecologically. You will learn the basics of rivers and wetlands, the main impacts on fish, habitats, and water quality, and how to design effective mitigation, restoration, and monitoring programmes. Gain confidence in permitting, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring compliance while enhancing outcomes for real projects.
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Develop skills
- River impact analysis: quickly assess hydropower effects on flows, fish, and sediment.
- Mitigation design: craft fish passages, e-flows, and habitat offsets that work.
- EIA and permitting: build concise, compliant impact studies for small hydropower.
- Monitoring plans: select indicators and sampling designs for fast, robust tracking.
- Stakeholder engagement: run clear consultations and respond to conflicts early.
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