55012 - Environmental Legislation

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Environmental Assessment and Management (cod. 8418)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the most important environmental's legal rules, at international, European and national level.

Course contents

1. The sources in environmental law.

2. The principles of environmental law at national, European and international level.

3. The most important european directives in environmental law.

4. The c.d. "Italian Environmental Code": d.lgs. 3 aprile 2006, n. 152.

5. The law of wastes (industrial and household).

6. The contamination of the soil

7. The legal rules on air and water pollution.

8. The "green house" gas emissions; in particular the Kyoto's Protocol and its implementation at European level and national level.

9. The IPPC directive and its implementation in Italy.

10. The protection of the biodiversity at european and internal level.

11. The voluntary rules in environmental law: the European regulations on "EMAS" and "Ecolabel"; the ISO legal international standards.


Readings/Bibliography

P.DELL'ANNO, Diritto dell'ambiente, CEDAM, Padova, l.e.

Teaching methods

Active lectures

Assessment methods

Oral exam.

Teaching tools

Case method with environmental sentences.

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Garzia