| CODE | PBL5042 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Development and Environment - Human Rights Issues | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Public Law | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will focus on human rights aspects relevant to development planning law, environmental law, heritage law and law relating to sustainable development and sustainable resource management. The study-unit will analyse how development and environmental issues impinge on human rights issues and how individual human rights, social, cultural and economic rights are impacted by environmental, sustainable development and heritage law issues. Study-Unit Aims: To analyse the interplay between environmental, sustainable development, development planning law and heritage law and human rights. It will consider how the right to a home may be affected by issues related to pollution, how property rights may be affected by development planning law, and how cultural rights are affected by heritage law. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Analyse the protection, interpretation and application of human rights in the field of environment, development planning, sustainable development and heritage law; - Identify and analyse relevant caselaw and consider the principles developed by courts and tribunals in this field. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Provide a written analysis of the interplay between the protection of individual human rights and of cultural rights with issues related to environment, planning, sustainable development and heritage. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - Miller, C., 1998, Environmental Rights Critical Perspectives, Routledge. Supplementary Readings - Johnston, B., 2011, Life and death matters: human rights, environment, and social justice, Left Coast Press Inc. - Francioni, F., 2001, Environment, human rights and international trade, Hart Publishing. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Antoine Grima |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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