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LAWS8055 - Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

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Project description

This unit introduces students to the specialised and burgeoning area of environmental law on both the national and international stage. It evaluates the effectiveness of current environmental law in the context of ongoing and emerging challenges. The unit adopts a multidisciplinary perspective to help augment understanding of the complexity of environmental challenges and enhance the analysis of relevant legislation and case law.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Identify and analyse the major global and Australian environmental challenges. 2. Identify and critique key ethical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment and the relevance of different aspects of jurisprudential and legal theory that underlie environmental law including ecologically sustainable development and environmental justice 3. Analyse the interaction of environmental law at multiple governance scales and the role of contextual factors. 4. Critically analyse and evaluate different forms of environmental regulation and their suitability to regulate current and future sustainability challenges.