Module Identifier | LA37720 | ||
Module Title | LAW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Ms Francoise Jarvis | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Other staff | Professor Christopher Rodgers, Professor Lynda Warren, Dr Paul Street | ||
Mutually Exclusive | ES30310 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 40 Hours One two hour and two one hour lectures per week | |
Seminar | 8 Hours Four two hour seminars during the semester | ||
Assessment | Essay | Assessed essay of 2000 words required in Week 9 | 33% |
Exam | 2 Hours | 66% | |
Resit assessment | By retaking the failed element (ie written assignment or examination or both, as applicable) | ||
Professional Exemptions | Not Required for Professional Purposes |
Each part of the course - the first examining environmental principles, the second looking at environmental impact assessment, the third dealing with the law of pollution control and the fourth looking at the law surrounding the issues of conservation, land use and the countryside - seek to facilitate the student not just in learning the law but also in uncovering and critically analysing the concepts, principles and policies informing and moving the law in this area.
Attention is paid to the role of the European Community and International law.
Environmental Law tends to be in a state of rapid flux, so emphasis is placed not only on the law as it stands, but also on policy and legislative trends so that students can see the direction in which the subject is moving. The course helps to give students some insight into the importance of economic, social and political pressures in law-making.
1.1 Environmental Theory, Ethics and Politics (values).
1.2 Environmental Principles.
1.3 The British Approach to Pollution Control
Regulatory authorities, the public, NGOs, voluntary organisations and pollution control.
1.4 Criminal Law, Administrative Regulation and Market Instruments.
1.5 Planning Law, Development Control and the Environment.
2.0 Environmental Impact Assessment
2.1 The European EIA Directive.
2.2 Implementation of EIA in the UK.
2.3 EIA and Development Control.
3.0 Pollution Control
3.1 The Law of Water Pollution.
EC law on water pollution.
UK regulation of water pollution.
International regulation of the marine environment.
3.2 The Law of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control and Air Pollution Control
EC law on air pollution.
The UK system of integrated pollution prevention and control.
Air pollution control in the UK.
Climate change and global warming.
3.3 The Law of the Pollution of Land
EC law relating to waste management and disposal.
UK regulation of waste management and disposal.
Contaminated land (including comparison to the US regime).
4.0 Nature Conservation Law
4.1 The EC Wild Birds and Habitats directives.
4.2 Protection of animals and plants.
4.3 Habitat protection in UK law.
Seminars will provide the opportunity for a more detailed examination of important topics. Students will be expected to participate in a reasoned discussion. The seminars are seen as essential to the promotion of skills in information gathering, selection and retention, and to giving students an opportunity to present structured, persuasive and logical arguments. Students are also expected to provide solutions to legal problems.