The course “International Environmental Law & Policy” is given in the second term of the second year of the Corso di Laurea Magistrale in “Sustainable Tourism Management and Monitoring”. It pursues a three-fold aim: a) to provide students with basic knowledge as to the functioning of the international and UE legal orders, having regard to their sources of law, their compliance mechanisms, and their incorporation within the Italian legal order; b) to offer a broad introduction to the principles governing international and EU environmental law, by paying particular heed to the foundational principle of sustainable development; c) to show how this legal framework applies to tourist management. Under the Dublin Descriptors, the Course Learning Outcomes are as follows:

1) Knowledge and understanding Students will learn:

• the most important English terminology concerning international environmental law. They will be able to read English textbooks and articles, as well as – in the same language - to defend their arguments in speaking and writing
• how to deal with the (international and EU) legal institutional framework concerning environmental planning
• international and EU environmental law principles and rules, and related policies

2) Applying knowledge and understanding Students will be able

• to interact with environment-related institutions and organizations at both national and international level
• to apply their multidisciplinary competences to interpret, describe and resolve issues concerning tourism development

3) Making judgments

• Students will be able to make their own assessment and/or judgment on the basis of the interpretation of available data, as well as to identify, collect and process further elements in order to obtain greater awareness on specific or common issues concerning sustainable tourism development
• Students will know how to start an initiative or take a decision, with the awareness that every activity is carried out in a situation of uncertainty or risk, and taking into account – besides legal/technical aspects – also economic, ethical and social ones.

4) Communication skills

• Students will be able to communicate, in an effective manner, information, projects and courses of action to stake-holders, relevant organizations, economic and social operators, as well as to the community at large, both at a national and at an international level. They will also be able to discuss their own ideas, raise problems, put forth solutions.

5) Learning skills Students will develop

• the autonomous learning skills, which are needed by managers in order to operate in line with the dictates of international and EU environmental law;
• the ability to search for different bibliographical sources (both in Italian and in English) in order to acquire new competences
• the competence, curiosity and inclination to continue their studies