Environmental Law: Applications Toward Sustainability

3 units

What do data centers, whales in the Gulf of Mexico, and forever chemicals have in common? They all strongly intersect with environmental law & policy. By learning how the major U.S. environmental laws shape strategy, process, and outcomes, students in this course will explore applications towards sustainability for current issues and complex challenges. This course provides an overview of significant environmental legal and policy issues. It will be taught from a sustainability practitioner's perspective, linking environmental law to sustainability applications. The content touches on both environmental hazards and natural resource issues, and they will be discussed within the scope of both a legal and sustainability framework. The goal of the course is to provide the students with a general understanding of numerous environmental issues--such as they might encounter in the field of sustainability--and to help them develop the knowledge and tools that will be useful in addressing those environmental issues.