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One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is fostering sustainable communities and ensuring the long-term health of the natural environment. Meeting this challenge requires land use and environmental policies grounded in law, science, economics, ethics, psychology, and politics. It also requires attention to the intersection of local, state, national, and international policies. The environmental and land use law program at the University of Virginia aims to develop leaders who combine knowledge in these fields with the skills to put sound policy into practice at all levels. The program joins outstanding legal teaching and scholarship with opportunities for interdisciplinary study and practical training.
Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County provide a beautiful but also uniquely fruitful setting for the study of land use and environmental issues. The area faces urgent regional growth concerns, testing relationships among urban, suburban, and rural communities, all at a scale that makes these issues realistically accessible to student investigators. The proximity of the Shenandoah National Park, the Jefferson National Forest, and the Chesapeake Bay (the Law School is in the Bay watershed) provide further opportunity to study firsthand problems in regional growth, natural resource policy, and watershed management.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Professor Jonathan
Z. Cannon
Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Program
Phone: (434) 924-3819
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