45 credits with progression within a main field of study

The course is included in the main area Environmental Science at the 1-60 credit level. This course is included in the Bachelor programme Environmental Science.

The aim of the course is to provide the student with a basic knowledge of how EU’s and international environmental law is structured and how they are based on international collaborations and negotiations, and how these will be established and built up. In addition, the course aims to provide basic knowledge of the links between international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights.

The course focuses on the basics of international and the EU’s environmental law, the international legal system and how international collaborations are created and conducted, as well as links between international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights. In addition, the relationship between the international legal system and the EU’s legal system is dealt with. ¨

The course is based on knowledge about the emergence of environmental movements and environmental policy and the EU’s legal system.

Knowledge and understanding

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

1. account for how the international legal system works and how it relates to the EU’s legal system.
2. give an account of basic knowledge of EU’s and international environmental law rules and are constructed
3. account for the basics of international collaborations and negotiations, and how these will be established and built up
4. describe and elaborate on how international environmental law, gender, nature's rights and human rights are interconnected.

Competence and skills

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

5. identify and review how the law is translated into legal practice and analyse and formulate legal solutions for concrete cases involving environmental problems from an environmental law perspective
6. identify, analyse and demonstrate how different actors in politics, economics and production influence the practice of international environmental law

Judgement and approach

After completion of the education, the student should be able to:

7. assess information relevance for a concrete environmental problem from an environmental law perspective
8. evaluate the relevance of using different perspectives e.g. nature's rights, gender and human rights in the solutions to international environmental problems
9. identify their own need for further knowledge and be able to develop their competence in compiling the current research position within the selected area of specialisation in environmental science

The course learning activities are based on lectures, seminars, own work and work in groups. In addition to the scheduled teaching time, students are expected to work independently and in groups with information retrieval and knowledge acquisition.

Oral examination (6 credits) (learning outcomes 1-6) (grading scale UG)

Individually written assignment (1,5 credits) (learning outcomes 5-9) (grading scale A-E, U)

For the final grade pass for the whole course (7.5 hp) all assessments parts must have at least a G or E grade. The entire course grade is based on the grade of the individual written assignment

• Detraz, N. (latest edition). Gender and the Environment. Polity Press, Cambridge.
• Dupuy, P-M. & Vinuales, J.E. (latest edition). International Environmental Law – A modern intorduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Miller, G. & Spoolman, S. (latest edition). Living in the Environment. Cengage Learning Inc, Boston.
• Morin J-F. & Orsini, A. (latest edition) Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance. Earthscan/Routledge, Milton Park.
• UN General Assembly. (2015). Transforming our World: the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development (RES/70/1).

Articles and other material will be provided electronically.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format.

The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text