Environmental Law & Social Justice

Program Overview

This 10-week distance learning program delves into environmental social justice issues and legal dynamics. It examines how justice can be integrated into environmental policy decision-making and the green economy. The program is open to undergraduates and professionals with relevant experience, with optional academic assessment for postgraduate-level credits.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course aims to explore factors that influence environmental social justice outcomes in environmental policy debates, as well as legal and policy dynamics. It will also identify how social justice considerations can be incorporated more effectively into decision making and the green economy.

Outline:

• Introduction to environmental law
• Principles and sources of environmental law
• Critique of sustainable development
• Environment Management Systems and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Introduction to environmental justice
• Globalisation
• Advocacy, activism, governance, corruption
• Indigenous people and environmental justice
• Gender and environmental justice
• Synthesis - Environmental justice and the green economy.

Assessment:

• Academic assessment (optional): An additional fee applies.
On successful completion of this assessment, you will gain 20 academic credits at postgraduate level (Level 7).
• Additional fee: £200 for the Master's level assessment.

Other:

• Duration: 10 weeks
• Location: Distance Learning/online
• Entry requirements: This course is open to anyone with a relevant undergraduate degree.
Alternatively, non-graduates / professionals with significant and relevant work experience, who can also demonstrate an ability to both complete and benefit from the course will be considered.
• International entry requirements: If English is not your first language, you'll need IELTS 6.5 (Academic) or above.
• Additional information: In a complex world, environmental policy and law decisions have implications for the environment and the people that reside within, or rely upon it.
Laws on permitting, standards, compliance & enforcement mechanisms, voluntary instruments, liability regimes and citizens’ environmental rights all play a part in translating policies, goal and social objectives into reality. However, such implications may not be equitably distributed amongst all members of society and may be perceived as socially unjust. This is particularly the case where segments of society experience economic loss, greater risk from natural hazards, and a reduced quality of life either as a result of an environmental policy choice, or due to lack of effective frameworks to achieve social justice.

Course fee: £600