Considering the available time for the research project you should define your main objectives first. Then you can develop the methodology step by step.
I recommend you to carry out a water quality assessment in selected impacted sites along with a sociological survey.
First of fix your area of reach project confined to Environmental Management, say Electronic waste (E-waste), Solid waste Management and Plastic waste ect., then you can make Litarature survey
You may study impact of climate change in terms of sea level rise which may cause inundation of the people living in the coastal area. Use the geographical information system (GIS) maps to identify the extent of the coastal area under water. You may also investigate the climate change effect on the change of precipitation which may cause flooding in rivers and it may impact on river flow due to tidal effects.
The Countries like Brasil, Canadá, China, Russia and have biggst Cast are a important instruments, Coastal Manegemnt System. That System make the evaluation of impacts on the Change in Maritimi Geological Changes. In this moment in the more important River in The Southest pass biggst change in the Foz Mouth. Other important Instrument are Biggst Rain and Storms. Exist a System of control of Flood Quotas. In Brasil existe National System of control of Flood Quotas. This Two instruments are basic for your Research. A Think are Strutural for construction of your metodology.
At first go through relevant literatures. Find out the gaps. Design your research. Go for it. This is the general method we follow for all research works.
The Construction of System for production of Water Energy in 1900, The Eletric Companys development an Artificial dams in the Serra do Mar. Are 1000 ms of sea level. For the construction of this Dam in urban impacts areas. Are Atlantic Forest with high rain fallsrates over 3800 mm in the year. Are necessary controll of limits of grown area of the dam. Limits of Flood quotas are the basic System for controll. Floods quotas system. Manegement of Flood quotas and the characterist and morfological Studies are imporntant for the begining of your studies. This Flood quotas work in this days.
Some suggestions: Is funding available for a given project, then consider doing a project that has funding.
Is there an area of interest to you that is important for your community, if so, do a literature review in that area and consider writing a review paper on the topic. This paper may be publishable on its own and serve as a background for a bigger project.
If there is no funding available, consider a modeling project that only requires a computer. You could model effects of climate change on a crop important to your community using plant modeling software.
Another good project in modeling is modeling soil erosion, and then determining the effects of erosion on either soil productivity or downstream water quality. Collecting river samples for sediment to validate an erosion model only requires a few bottles, a lab balance and a drying oven.
Now appear biggest atmospheric phenomena in the Southest Coast of EUA. Historical phenomena occur in the centuries de Hurricane. ;thats phenomena are diferents impacts in the Construction of Metodology. In Brasil do not exist this type of phenomena. The Italy are the Country where exist the hgher number de Vulcanoes. They developed more sophisticated System of understande and detect Irruptions. Are necessary study the particularity of Region Ambiental System.
Develop an extensive literature review on the prepared objective. Identification of research gaps in environmental management is compulsory. Methodologies can be devised from the knowledge gained with literature review. The following paper will provide a concise information:
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