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COURSE GUIDE Course Code: LAW 322 Course Title: Environmental Law II Course Writer: Ademola A. Taiwo Babcock University Ilisan Remo Ogun State Editor : Prof. L. A. Atsegbua Faculty of Law University of Benin Benin Edo State Ag. Dean Ifidon Oyakhiromen, PhD. BL School of Law, NOUN Course Coordinators: A. Onuora-Oguno, F. Anene, S. Godwin- Clark, E. Ugbejeh School of Law, NOUN 1 CONTENTS MODULE 1: BASIC CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Unit 1: Nature and Meaning of Environment Unit 2: Environmental Law Defined Unit 3: Concept of Environmental Law Unit 4: Theories of Environmental Protection and Challenges MODULE 2: PUBLIC HEALTH RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: NIGERIAN CITIZENS’ RIGHTS TO ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Unit1: Rights of Citizens to Clean Environment Unit 2: International Recognition of Environmental Rights Unit 3: Rights of Citizens to Life and Property Unit 4: Right to Good Health, Safety and Welfare Unit 5: Human Rights and Environment Law I Unit 6: Human Rights and Environment Law II MODULE 3: CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND LEGAL CONTROL MECHANISM OF POLLUTION Unit 1: Case Studies in Environmental Pollution Law in some Selected Areas and Their Implications Unit 2: Oil Pollution and Other Chemical Unit 3: Industrial Waste Management and Control I Unit 4: Industrial Waste Management and Control II Unit 5: Industrial Waste Management and Control III Unit 6: Industrial Waste Management and Control IV Unit 7: (i) Water Pollution Control Laws (ii) Water Qualities Management Unit 8: The Economic Approach to Pollution Control 2 MODULE 4: PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Unit 1: Public Health and Environmental Issues I Unit 2: Public Health and Environmental Issues II Unit 3: Factory legislation Unit 4: Public Health and Hazardous Waste Unit 5: Highlights of the Environmental Protection Laws in Nigeria and International Treaties, Conventional and Instruments 3 MODULE 1 BASIC CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Unit 1: Nature and Meaning of Environment Unit 2: Environmental Law Defined Unit 3: Concept of Environmental Law Unit 4: Theories of Environmental Protection and Challenges Unit 1: Meaning of Environment 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Objectives 3.0 The Main Contents 3.1 Nature and Meaning of Environment 3.2 The Concept of Environment 4.0 Conclusion 5.0 Summary 6.0 Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) 7.0 References and Further Readings 1.0 Introduction It is not a gainsaying to state here that environmental law is a very young field of study under faculty/college of law and in the Nigerian legal curriculum; unlike older courses such as Business/Company Law, Torts, Equity, Trusts, Estate Administration, Contract, the concepts of which are settled and their studies are firmly rooted in the legal curriculum. It is an interesting course despite its acknowledged multi-disciplinary nature and inter relationship with other discipline is such as Economics, Politics and Science. As a result, the environmentalist described the subject as “creative” because it is subversive in principle. Though in the academics environment law is very recent in Nigeria, the idea of protecting our environment began in pre-colonial era when African’s protected their environment through observation of culture, norms and customs. The second phase was the period of the imperialist, when common law and English statutes were introduced to curb or prevent pollution of our environment. The emergence of the third era was marked by the toxic waste dumped in Koko, a riverine town in Delta State (formerly Bendel State) in 1988, Nigeria for the first time got 4
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