Law

relating to environmental sustainability

The Law Department at Rhodes University incorporates sustainability issues in its elective course on Environmental Law for final-year LLB students. It aims to analyse and provide a deeper understanding of the law with regard to environment, interrogating legal, social, economic and philosophical issues associated with efforts to protect and conserve the environment. This includes some of the fundamental principles of law relating to natural resource conservation and utilisation, and land-use planning and development. Issues of enforcement and the international dimension which has shaped much of the direction that environmental law in South Africa has taken are considered. Crucial to any application of environmental law in South Africa is an understanding of the role played by the Constitution, as well as the National Environmental Management Act, which provides the underlying framework for environmental law.

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Go to the Rhodes University ENVIRONMENT front page. Suggestions/Questions? Contact environment(at)ru.ac.za