Environmental Law

- Understanding the regulations and legal agents that facilitate the future professional work of the students.
· Knowing the current environmental legal system
· Knowing the different sources of regulatory production (international, community, state, regional and local) as well as their competence or hierarchical organization.
· Being aware of the plurality of administrations involved in protecting the environment.

1. ORIGIN OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. A. Causes and timing of the birth of the environmental policies and the right to environmental protection. B. Evolution. C. The relationship between environmental protection, economic development and law

2. SOURCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICIES. International law: Conventions, treaties: value and effects. The role of trade agreements and the WTO in the face of sustainability. B. EU Law. Primacy of European legislation. C. State and regional internal rules: powers. local rules. D. Soft law, technical standards, nudges and other voluntary standards for environmental protection.

3. PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES. Prevention, Caution, Who pollutes pays, No regression, transversality

4. TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. A. Public assets. B. Limiting measures: Zonification. prohibitions. Emission limit values and medium quality standards. Environmental and strategic impact assessments. Prior authorizations and communications. C. Taxation and market techniques: Taxation, emission rights markets, environmental audits, ecological labels. D. The mechanisms of accountability and sanction: environmental responsibility, restoration of damage and sanctions. - Ecological crimes

Esteve Pardo, José, Derecho del medio ambiente, Madrid: Marcial Pons,última edición
Lozano Cutanda, Blanca, Administración y legislación ambiental: actualizado y adaptado al EEES, Madrid: Dykinson, última edición
Nogueira, Alba, Vence, Xavier (dirs.) (2021), Redondear la economía circular. Del discurso oficial a las políticas necesarias, Aranzadi

CE1 - Knowing how to assess and select the appropriate scientific theory and precise methodology of the field of study of Environmental Engineering to issue judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, where necessary and relevant, reflection on social or ethical responsibility linked to the proposed solution in each case
CE8 - Addressing a real problem of Environmental Engineering from a scientific-technical perspective, recognizing the importance of searching and managing existing information and applicable legislation
CE9 - Having autonomous learning skills to maintain and improving engineering skills
Environments that enable the continued development of the profession

The teaching of the subject will be developed through lectures, teaching and interactive teaching activities, all of which are in person.
An essential support is made up by the virtual classroom of the subject, in which students can find: i) the presentations or materials related to exhibition teaching; (ii) the instructions of the activities to be carried out and the materials to work in each of the interactive teaching sessions; (iii) Reading for each topic.
The tutorials will take place essentially in person, complemented by the resolution of doubts to be brought

Exam 50
Individual or group work/activities 30
Active participation in class and tutoring 20

Exhibition classes 10
Interactive classes: 12
Scheduled tutorials (individual or group) 2
Study and Personal Work 49
Exam 2

Students should attend face-to-face classes, as well work with the basic and complementary bibliography indicated by teachers as the program develops.
Each student must devote adequate time to their abilities and knowledge to settle the contents and perform the work that, where appropriate, is demanded.
Along with the above, the use of tutoring should supply any kind of problem that might arise throughout the teaching-learning process of the subject.