ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY LEGISLATION

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: MARISA MELI

Expected Learning Outcomes

knowledge of basic skills on the "discover" of environment, the basic principles of european environmental law, particularly referred to sustainability principle

Course Structure

There are not particular modality

Lessons with active participations

Required Prerequisites

Availability to working group and to make individual research

Detailed Course Content

The origins and the evolution of the interest for the Environment

The main stages:

Silent Spring (1962)

The Limits to Growth (1972)

Our Common Future (1987)

The evolution of European environmental law: from the first Action Plan to the Single Act

The main directives on Environmental law

Landscape protection

The Green Deal and the process of ecological transition; the mai principles on circular economy; zero pollution; biodiversity protection and nature restoration law; sustainable agriculture and farm to fork strategy; energy from renewable sources

The discover of the Commons

Textbook Information

the tests to study will be distributed to the students during the course through Stadium

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

ability to report and to evaluate critically the informations acquired

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

When the sustainability principle is born?

What is  ecological sustainability?

What is the Nature Restoration Law?

Which are the principles in the field of waste management?

what is circular economy?

what are renewable energy communities?

what are the commons?