This course covers the environmental obligations of business and the development of management strategies to fulfill those obligations. Topics include a review of the fundamental legal doctrines that affect managerial decision making and an overview of the statutory, administrative, and common-law principles concerned with the protection of the environment. Air, water, and noise pollution and solid and toxic waste disposal are examined from a legal and public policy perspective.
Emphasis is placed on the prevention of environmental liability.
This seminar reviews theoretical literature concerning the dynamics of conflicts including alternative explanations for these dynamics. The focus will be on understanding natural resource and environmental conflicts. Emphasis will be given to understanding the implications of international intervention for purposes of anticipating conflict, developing policies that creatively respond to conflict and settling specific disputes. By applying theory to empirical cases, students should build a conceptual framework for managing conflicts. A paper is required.