This course will address substantive areas of environmental law, while addressing the nature of environmental law, its origin and the need for its understanding in tackling climate change, and providing solutions to major environmental problems
Course contents:
- Understanding the Nature of Environmental Law
- Meaning of Environment
- Historical background
- Sources of Environmental Law
- Functions of Environmental Law
- Factors influencing the development of Environmental Law
- Environmentalism
- Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
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