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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW2016C: Environmental Regulation and Redress

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Overview

If you are concerned about environmental destruction and ensuring accountability on a global basis, then learning to articulate your argument and back it up with a sound grasp of the law might help you to make a real difference! The module is crucial to establish a working knowledge of how the law can be used as a mechanism to reconcile competing values in the protection of the environment and seeks to develop an understanding of the legal avenues available to mitigate environmental harm. As an environmentally aware individual what can you do if you feel that another individual or business has committed an environmental wrong? What guidance is given on a global level, and what are the forms of redress where law is ignored? If it is the ‘polluter’ who should pay for environmental damage, how should that principle be enforced, and what immediate action can an individual take where he/she is concerned that irretrievable environmental damage might occur?