Environment and Planning Law Advanced

44M0556

Master

German

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

Environmental and planning law is a central framework condition for the implementation of landscape architecture projects. Building on basic knowledge of environmental and planning law, this module deals with in-depth issues of environmental and planning law. In particular, the interaction of environmental and planning law is worked out on the basis of specific cases and the practice of working with various legal sources and interpreting laws with the help of commentaries and judgements is taught.

• Legislative competences at European and national level
• Working with various legal sources, judgements and commentaries
• Basic principles and central legal sources of environmental law
• Central legal sources and instruments of planning law
• The interaction of planning and environmental law in the implementation of specific projects
• Systematic examination of environmental concerns in planning and approval procedures
• Implementation of environmental law requirements in overall spatial planning (e.g. protection of immissions, nature and species protection, water and soil protection, etc.)
• Dealing with reference and maximum values in environmental and planning law

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• Homework / Assignment or
• oral exam or
• Oral presentation, with written elaboration

Standard form of examination: Written examination, 2 hours (alternative form of examination to be selected by the examiner if necessary and announced at the beginning of the course).

Basic knowledge of planning and environmental law is assumed.

Students have a broad and integrated knowledge of the legal provisions and regulatory options of planning and environmental law.

Students have an in-depth knowledge of the interactions between planning and environmental law.

Students can independently analyse existing legal sources in environmental and planning law and interpret undefined legal terms with the help of commentaries and current case law.

Students can analyse existing regulations of environmental and planning law for specific planning projects and develop necessary planning steps and measures for the implementation of planning projects.

Students will be able to critically analyse regulations in planning and environmental law and their effects and assess current amendments to the law and their effects.

Students can communicate legal requirements and regulations to political decision-makers and building owners in the form of a presentation.

The students can write statements on issues of planning and environmental law.

Students are able to contextualise planning tasks of landscape architecture in the legal context and know their role or responsibility in the enforcement of the relevant legal regulations.

• Schoppengerd, Johanna

• Schoppengerd, Johanna