Legal Doctrine for Nature Managers
The course covers the following main topics:
- muncipalities and the State, the municipality and its inhabitants
- basic legal terminology and jurisprudence
- public administration legislation, tools and principles of environmental law
- compensation and environmental crime
- an overview over environmental laws emphasising The Planning and Construction Act, the Nature Diversity Act, the Land Act, the Act relating to Regulations of Watercourses, the Pollution Control Act and the Forestry Act
The subject is reserved for students of the following study programmes:
- Nature Management (Bachelor programme)
Other students can get admitted if there are places available. Contact student advisor.
After completing the course, the student will have achieved the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge:
- have knowledge about and overview of the management system in Norway, but the main emphasis on government and municipal environmental management, and the legal rules that are used to safeguard environmental considerations in practical management tasks.
Skills:
- have acquired the skills to apply the appropriate legal rules and explain how environmental issues are addressed in law and administration.
General competence:
- have acquired enough knowledge to be able to assume a regulatory role in public environmental management
Compound assessment
- Compulsory Work. Approved/ Not approved. Must be approved prior to the written examination.
- Written examination, 3 hours, comprises 100% of the grade, grading scale A-F.
Norway's laws and other collections of laws that only contain legal texts and regulations. Special edition of laws and regulations and pen, ruler and up to 2 bilingual dictionaries.
Generating an answer using ChatGPT or similar artificial intelligence and submitting it wholly or partially as one's own answer is considered cheating.
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
NAT203 - Environment Legislation and Management System - 5 credits