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Mar 31, 2023
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GEDS 6310 - Promoting Sustainable Oil and Gas Projects: Legal and Social Frameworks Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: None.
An interdisciplinary approach (Social Sciences, Law) trains students to identify, analyze, and problem-solve re: social, political, environmental challenges associated with oil and gas projects in developing nations and new production sites. Topics may include: key stakeholders and varying priorities; issues of ethnicity/identity, religion, health, social and enviro justice; international soft law codes of conduct and human rights; formal and informal regulation of IOC operations by courts, arbitrators, and industry trade groups; the role of international law, U.S. law, host government laws, and petroleum contract obligations in interactions with host communities or nations; IOC pressures from/alliances with NGOs.
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