Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Environment Legislation and Management System
NAT203
Current active course description (last updated 2024/25)
Environment Legislation and Management System
NAT203
The course gives an overview of legal matters related to nature management.
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's Programme
Other students can get admitted if there are places available. Contact student advisor.
Students must meet current admission requirements for the associated study program.
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
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal.
Compulsory
Lectures and review of practical examples on legal issues related to different laws and public management regulations. Compulsory assignment in 2 parts is delivered as group assignment of 5-7 pages with up to 4 people in the group
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.
Compound assessment
- Compulsory Work. Approved/ Not approved. Must be passed prior to the written examination.
- Written examination, 3 hours, comprises 100% of the grade, grading scale A-F.
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:
NAF1001 - Legal Doctrine for Nature Managers - 5 credits