Upon completion of the course, students have acquired the ability to combine, within an interdisciplinary approach and rationale, the relationship of individual legal arrangements and regulations with the assumptions and positions of planning and environmental sciences. This in particular, also means that they are -to a greater or lesser extent- capable of resolving specific practical legal issues that practice and every-day application of law raise, in order to facilitate the desired spatial development, organization and management.

Planning and Environmental Law II aims:

(a) to cover, in the most exhaustive and comprehensive way, all three aspects through which it appears in the field of law science, with the adoption and implementation of corresponding arrangements, the relation of man to space (Spatial Planning – Urban Planning – Environment, see also the detailed content of the course ” Planning and Environmental Law I”),

(b) to highlight the conditions for developing a modern law policy in the fields of spatial planning – urban planning – and environment; and

(c) to obtain a deeper, from an interdisciplinary point of view, understanding of spatial, urban planning and environmental legislation, through dealing with specific legal texts and specific cases applicable in Greece.

Specific axes for the development of Environmental Law:

1. Origins, evolution and principles of environmental law
2. Environmental impact assessment and licensing of projects and activities
3. Strategic environmental assessment of plans and projects
4. The law of nature protection and management (protected areas, forests, sea, biodiversity, etc.).
5. The law of natural resources (water management, renewable energy sources)
6. Global environmental problems (international conventions on climate warming, desertification and landscape)
7. Balance of constitutionally protected rights (environmental protection, property, financial freedom, etc.)
8. Forms of judicial consideration of environmental issues and of environmental planning in general
9. The case law as a factor in the shaping and evolution of environmental law
10. Principles of Environmental Law
11. Environmental policy legislation

[It should be noted that the material of the Course “Law on Urban Planning – Spatial Planning and Environment I” covers only the spatial – urban aspect and not the environmental one].

The course is addressed to 5th, 7th and 9th semester students, who, being quite or very familiar with spatial and environmental planning, are given the opportunity to obtain, by examining specific spatial, urban and environmental legal texts, a clear view of the importance and role of legislation in spatial and environmental planning issues.

Student evaluation depends on whether students have a clear and practical understanding of the role of law in issues of space management and environmental protection. Particular emphasis is placed on the ability to solve practical issues and problems. Students are familiar with the method of assessment, which ensures objectivity and equal treatment.

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