Forestry law and environmental law

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Etienne Orban De Xivry

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The student's training will achieved through the examination of different matters that are often to be dealt with when managing forest lands :
- comparing the judicial status of public and privalte forest lands : planning, selling, exploiting, ...;
- criminal forest laws;
- controlling afforestation and deforestation (distance rules for planting, environmental planning and urbanism order);
- nature preservation acts (among others Natura 2000 sites), hunting, fishing laws;
- assessment;
- civil law matters related with forest lands management: boundary marking, rights of way, systems of contractual and criminal liability.
The training is also achieved through the study of the regulations enforcing the issus of Environment Permits and "Permis Unique" and the regulations concerning the environmental impact assessment of projects, plans and programs.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Introducing students to elements of forest and environmental law
After completing the course the student is expected to
First identify the main legislative dispositions and rules to apply to the issue, and second to comment them in a relevant way

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Lectures : 24h

Recommended or required readings

Documentation (legal and prescribed texts, judicial decisions, doctrinal comments).

Oral examination (100%)

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online