Specialization in Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability

In the Specialization program in Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability, there are three differentiating factors that are explained below:

Environmental responsibility from different perspectives of law. The program addresses liability from a private law perspective, especially when it comes to contractual and tort liability. From the perspective of public law, the responsibility of the State for environmental damage; From the constitutional perspective, the responsibility of the State and individuals in relation to the conservation of the environment and natural heritage are addressed, and from the perspective of environmental law, the responsibility that arises from the violation of environmental regulations with the environmental sanctioning process. Likewise, it raises the debates in the Colombian legislation of the environmental responsibility regime, between the objective,

Debates on environmental responsibility from an interdisciplinary perspective. The valuation of environmental damage supposes an analysis of environmental justice-socio-environmental conflicts-, of new methods coming from the Economic Sciences and impacts that are of interest to the Legal Sciences but understood by the Environmental Sciences.

Sustainability as the axis of responsibility. The emphasis on environmental responsibility in the horizon of sustainable development marks a differentiating line with the objective responsibility regimes that do not take into account the socio-economic perspective.