Environment Law

Code:

DO532

Acronym:

DAMB

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2003/2004 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	0	Official Study Plan - LD	5	-	6	-

Program

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
1. From a society at risk to Environment Law as law of complexity
2. Sources of Environment Law
3. Structuring principles of Environment
4. The importance of the landscape in the axiological-normative colouring of the Law on the Envrionment. Design with nature?

CHAPTER I
APPROACH TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL-LEGAL CONCEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Operative concepts of the environment
2. The environment as unitary good
3. Towrds a legal notion of the environment: the environment as universitas rerum
4. Of general interest to environmental law as fundamental law
5. The constitutional-legal dimensions of environmental law

CHAPTER II
EUROPEAN UNION LAW OF ENVIRONMENT
1. The promotional function of European Union law in the Portuguese legal system (primacy and direct effect)
2. Origins and evolution of European Union Law of Environment
3. Principles, goals and conditions for Community action in environmental matters
4. Legislative procedures
5. European Union Law of Environment and International Environmental Law. Relativity and need for international environmental law.

CHAPTER III
GUARDIANSHIP OF THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Guardianship of the environment between procedures and adminsitrative processes.
2. Administrative procedures for assessing environmental impact as standard procedure in preventive guardianship of the environment
3. Land use planning and strategic envrionmental assessment
4. Complex authorising procedures with justifying preclusive effects and protectin of theird parties: environmental licence
5. Jurisdictional guardianship of the environment. Particularly, the right of popular action and precautionary measures
6. The new administrative justice and effective guardianship of environmental law

CHAPTER IV
ADMINISTRATIVE LIABILITY AND ENVRIONMENTAL DAMAGE
1. State of Law on the Environment and the principle of assumption of liability
2. Meaning and scope of administrative liability in environmental matters
3. Authorising acts and liability for ecological damage
4. The specificity of existential damage

Main Bibliography

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COLAÇO ANTUNES, “Para uma noção jurídica de ambiente”, in Scientia Iuridica, n.os 235/237, 1992
COLAÇO ANTUNES, “O Direito do Ambiente como direito da complexidade”, in Rev. Jur. Urb. Amb., n.º10, 1998
COLAÇO ANTUNES, O Procedimento Administrativo de Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental – Para uma Tutela Preventiva do Ambiente, Coimbra, 1998
COLAÇO ANTUNES, Para um Direito Administrativo de Garantia do Cidadão e da Administração – Tradição e Reforma, Coimbra, 2001
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