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ISMAT 11363

Planning Law and the Environment

Law
  • ApresentaçãoPresentation
    This course fills a gap in university education in the Algarve. Issues related to water and urban planning in the Algarve are a major concern for legal scholars who genuinely seek to help solve their region's problems. It is during the undergraduate program that students acquire greater legal awareness and begin studying the courses that will enable them to work in these two highly specialized areas of knowledge.
  • ProgramaProgramme
    I - 1. Urban planning issues. 2. Urban planning framework in Portugal. The particular case of the Algarve. 3. Control and sanctioning of illegality. 4. Urban planning and housing policy. 6. Economic ideology and environmental compatibility policy. 7. Planning, territorial asymmetries of economic and social development, and democratic regional power. 8. Urban planning case law guidelines in Portuguese courts. 9. The main applicable legal regimes. II - 1. Constitutional environmental law. 2. Characteristics of environmental law. 3. Fundamental principles. 4. Nature, water, air and soil protection, and noise control. 5. Landscape. 6. Misdemeanors and crimes. 7. The human right to water. Pollution. 8. Environmental jurisprudential guidelines in Portuguese courts. 9. Main applicable legal regimes.
  • ObjectivosObjectives
    This Curricular Unit will allow students to acquire in-depth knowledge of Urban Planning and Environmental Law, equipping them with the tools necessary to discuss the concepts and theories transmitted, and to apply, in practice, the various institutes included in the program.
  • BibliografiaBibliography
    CONDESSO, Fernando dos Reis/ CONDESSO, Ricardo Alexandre Azevedo, “Direito do Urbanismo e do Ambiente”, 2.ª edição, Almedina, 2022, ISBN: 9789894003786  
  • MetodologiaMethodology
    Promote approaches that foster active, contextualized learning that is deeply connected to the regional reality, preparing students for the specific legal challenges of the Algarve.
  • LínguaLanguage
    Português
  • TipoType
    Semestral
  • ECTS
    5
  • NaturezaNature
    Mandatory
  • EstágioInternship
    Não