Regulation and Environmental Risks

General characterization

Prerequisites

Not Applicable

Bibliography

Not Applicable

Teaching method

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Evaluation method

The assessment will be based on the following options, which will count for 100% of the final grade.

 

- CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT (100%)

 

CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%)

 

PRESENTATION (10%)

 

TEST (80%)

 

- FINAL EXAM (100%)

Students with disabilities or special needs are encouraged to contact Prof Lucila at the beginning of the course to discuss a suitable assessment method together.

All assignments and exams will be checked for plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected, a negative mark will be awarded.

 

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: Students will be assessed on the basis of a continuous assessment model consisting of the following parts:

 

 

Class participation (group work) - 10%

Continuous assessment is an assessment method awarded to students with high attendance. Class participation will be assessed through two group assignments, which correspond to activities given to students at the end of Part II and Part III and developed in discussion groups.

 

Individual presentation (Workshop) - 10%.

 

The workshop is a session dedicated to students presenting a first draft of their case study and obtaining feedback from the teacher and/or guest speakers.

 

Case study essay - 80%

 

A case study essay is a short, critical commentary on an important case study on an EIA or a concrete case involving the application of an environmental risk regulation ("case study").

 

1. choose your case

By the end of Part III, an Excel will be made available where each student can indicate the topic and case study they wish to address in the essay. No two or more students may write about the same case study.

 

2. Structure of your case study

Case studies have a more flexible structure than case notes. However, it is possible to find some common elements, including the identification and description of a specific case, the legal framework relevant to the issue, an analysis of whether or not the legal system provides a solution (regulatory failures). We recommend that you structure your case note as follows:

I - Introduction;

II - description of the case with factual background;

III - legal framework;

IV - analysing whether or not the legal system provides solutions;

V - recommendations;

VI - conclusion.

 

3. Length

A case note essay should be no longer than 2,000 words (footnotes not included). It should therefore be concise and work on your ability to choose whether to include relevant information.

 

4. Citation style.

You are asked to make references as footnotes based on the OSCOLA citation style.

 

5. Deadline for submission

The final paper is due one week after the workshop presentations. Students must upload an individual essay on the same topic presented.

FINAL EXAM: Students can decide to take a 3-hour final exam, with open consultation and based on all the course content.

 

Subject matter

Part I - Introduction from the point of view of law and the exact sciences

Session 1 - Introduction: Risk Regulation Theory

Session 2 - Regulation and environmental risk: key concepts

 

Part II - Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): 'law in books and law in action'

Session 3 - EIA as law in books: at international, EU and national level

Session 4 - EIA as law in action: impacts by type of activity

Session 5 - EIA in practice: case studies in its legal dimension

Session 6 - EIA in practice: case studies of its engineering dimension I - success stories

Session 7 - EIA in practice: case studies from its engineering dimension II - cases of failure

 

Part III - Risk assessment

Session 8 - Environmental risks: basic concepts of environmental risks, risk perception and case studies

 

Part IV - Risk regulation from a sectoral perspective

Session 9 - Environmental Impact Strategy, Regulatory Impact Analysis and Regulation and Risk Management in the water sector: water scarcity

Session 10 - Regulation and Mitigation of environmental risks in the agricultural sector: pesticides and GMOs

Session 11 - Regulation and Mitigation of Climate Risk in the Energy Sector

 

Part V - Workshop & Mentoring

Session 12 - Workshop & Mentoring

 

 

Programs

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