Concepts of environmental impact assessment and analytical methodology; assessments of physical resources: air, water, noise; assessments of ecological and biological resources; human use values and quality of life values, culture, socioeconomic; interrelationship of engineering benchmarks and environmental parameters; planning the environmental quality evaluation; monitoring; prevention and mitigation measures; establishment and organization of environmental agencies; industrialization and urbanization management; resource conservation; management approaches and program implementation; case studies of environmental impact assessment and specific environmental protectio