Advanced Diploma in Environmental Protection and Natural-Cultural Heritage (2nd) (expected start 2026)

The new paradigm that arises with the constitutional reform in Argentina in 1994, by incorporating an "environmental clause" into the Fundamental Charter, which recognizes the right to a healthy and balanced environment, suitable for sustainable human development, imposed a true ecological State of law, where the authorities have an active obligation to protect the environment. Within this framework, there is an erga omnes obligation to prevent all environmental damage that is manifested in various regulations that guide human behavior to avoid any harm to the environment, under a legal system that -in the event that the damage occurs - must implement the priority duty to recompose it. From there, environmental law presents a content that invades all known branches of legal science and constitutes an organic system of norms that contemplate the different protective or aggressive behaviors of the environment, be it to prevent, mitigate or repress them.

From the point of view of priority environmental prevention, the protective norms of the environment acquire special relevance, which are stipulated by various institutions for the control of anthropic activities likely to cause affectations, both in the cultural and natural elements of the environment. The existence of a complex system of prior authorizations, licenses and permits that are required based on a diversity of sectoral regulations, allows activities to be implemented within an adequate sustainability framework. A particular aspect of such a system stands out from the Environmental Impact Assessment.

In the same way, the protective scope of the system includes administrative and judicial mechanisms that are activated when the preventive measures have not achieved their purpose. A complex recomposition regime, with a constitutional source, paves the way for the restitution of the affected environment in the event of an undesired impairment.

At the same time and within the legal branches of public law, penal and contraventional or administrative sanctioning laws present a guardianship regime that encourages environmentally due conduct and punishes unlawful actions in the matter.

In the criminal branch, environmental crimes present in the current regime particularities that respond to various legislative techniques adopted for it, be it through criminal offenses in white, danger or by holding people responsible who act through entities of ideal existence; while the police regime finds its application within the framework of the traditional principles of penalizing law, although appropriate to the administrative specialty. In addition to this, the novel principles from environmental regulations have begun to influence the interpretation and application of the sanctioning processes and procedures that promote the protection of the environment, giving a new entity within the reach of traditional institutions in the matter.

Based on this, the importance of the analysis of the different preventive, recomposition and sanctioning mechanisms that make up the protective environmental regulations is noted, for which it will be necessary to specify the diversity of the normative content of the precepts that impose obligations in the matter and sanctions. due to violations of the regulations, which in the current regime in Argentina implies important and substantial jurisdictional effects.

For all the above, the proposal of this Diploma, based on both sanctioning axes, from criminal and administrative law, is comprehensive and unique. Likewise, it aspires to the maximum update, since it assumes nodes such as corporate environmental crime, the responsibility of authorizing officials and new regulatory proposals regarding environmental crime and archaeological and paleontological heritage.

Finally, convinced of the importance of administrative practice and "judicial law", a contribution is sought from a pragmatic vision as a complement to the theoretical background, articulating the content of each of the modules that make up the curriculum, with the analysis of cases. real.

• Continuing Education: Diploma
• Name of the Diploma: Higher Diploma in Protection of the Environment and Natural-Cultural Heritage
• Plan Structure: Structured
• Modality: online – Zoom Meeting Pro Platform
• interinstitutional

Universidad de Mendoza

Universidad del Aconcagua

• Academic Unit:

School of Law and Social Sciences – UM

School of Economic and Legal Sciences – UDA

• Organisation: Postgraduate and Continuing Education FCJS
• Institutional Endorsement: DGI – General Department of Irrigation

Quotas: Min MAX

Basic admission requirement

The basic requirement to achieve the condition of applicant to carry out the Diplomas in the School of Law and Social Sciences of the Universidad de Mendoza is having completed secondary education and being a creditor of the corresponding secondary degree or having approved the provisions of the current regulations regarding those over 25 years of age who, without a university degree, aspire to enter the University, in accordance with the provisions of the art. 7 of Law 24.521.

Priority recipients

The Diploma is intended, primarily, to:

• notaries and lawyers, graduates in Political Science, Administration, Economics, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences, Tourism and Hospitality, architects;
• professionals from other degree courses related to environmental issues or who are interested in this area of ​​knowledge;
• university students who are studying the last years of the aforementioned degree course and other related courses;
• magistrates of the national and provincial judicial powers,
• officials and agents of the national, provincial, municipal public administration;
• advisors to the government and to the provincial and municipal legislatures;
• citizens whose jobs are related to or who are interested in this area of ​​knowledge and meet the basic admission requirement.

If the Diploma is presented as a Postgraduate Degree Course before the CONEAU, the students with a degree who obtained the Diploma may request that the equivalencies of the approved subjects be recognized, provided that a similar scheme has been maintained and authorized by the regulations in force.

Address

• Marcela M. ANDINO
• Gustavo E. ABOSO

Codirection

• Maria Valentina Erice
• Carlos Christian SUERO

Coordination

• Academic – Mauricio Pinto
• Online – Romina Sosa

The professors that make up the Faculty of the Diploma are selected on the basis of their academic relevance and curricular background.

They will be considered as:

• Responsible teachers: those who have academic responsibility for the progress of the curricular activity/module.
• guest professors: those who eventually assume part of the teaching of a curricular activity/module.

We present the list of teachers, arranged alphabetically by last name.

• ABALOS, Gabriela
• ABOSO, Gustavo
• ANDINO, Marcela
• ASTURIAS, Miguel Angel
• BERMUDEZ, Fernando
• BOMPAROLA, Ricardo
• BUCHHERI, Mauritius
• CATALAN, Mariana
• RAVEN, Carlos
• DIAZ ARAUJO, Facundo
• ERICE, Maria Valentina
• ESAIN, Jose
• France, Jorge A.
• FURLOTTI, Silvina
• GONZALEZ DEL SOLAR, Nicolas
• GONZALEZ, Ramiro
• HERNANDEZ, Guillermo
• INCHAUSTI, Santiago
• LLORET, Juan Sebastian
• LUISONI, Carlos
• MARTIN, Liber
• PINTO, Mauricio
• SUERO, Christian
• TORCHIA, Noelia
• UGARTE, Andres
• WALSH, Rodrigo and other national and international specialist teachers.

The Diploma has a duration of six (6) months, with a workload of 72 hours of online study and 48 hours of activity in the online chair/tutorials, which gives a total of 120 clock hours, without adding those dedicated to the Final Evaluation.

Synchronous online course

Tuesday from 3 pm to 6 pm (Argentina)

The Diplomas constitute an educational unit closed in on itself, made up of a set of subjects organized into modules for improvement, updating and/or deepening of a specific area of ​​knowledge, and which contributes to the development of professional or academic skills.

The Diploma that we present is organized around three (3) modules that are theoretical-practical training in which the central topics related to the protection of the environment and natural-cultural heritage are developed with the aim of updating students in in-depth knowledge of the most significant challenges of the subject. Additionally, a final workshop is included.

MODULE I. GUIDANCE RULES AND ADMINITRATIVE SANCTIONS

basic content

• Introduction to the Protection of the Environment and the natural-cultural heritage
• Environmental management institutions
• Preventive environmental procedures
• Violations and sanctioning procedures in environmental matters
• Reading Club: Environmental preservation and its conflicts

MODULE2nd. IMPACT AND ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE

basic content

• Administrative prevention of environmental damage. Evaluation of environmental impact
• Procedures and processes for the recomposition of environmental damage
• Environmental Civil Liability
• Economic Analysis of Environmental Damage
• Economic tools to assess environmental impacts and damages
• Film debate: environmental processes. interests and roles

MODULE2ndI. CRIMINAL PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

basic content

• Introductory notions
• The regulation of environmental crime in Argentine law
• Hazardous Waste Law
• procedural issues
• Environmental crime in projects
• Faults and environmental contraventions
• Corporate environmental crime
• The protection of archaeological and paleontological heritage. Current law and projects
• New trends in environmental matters: the digital age and ecocide
• Reading Club: Paradigms and resolution of environmental processes

Research Methodology Workshop

• Stages of the research process in Law and Social Sciences. Statement of the research problem. Goals. Justification and feasibility. The hypotheses. The theoretical framework. Possible methodological alternatives.
• Quotations and bibliographical references. Ways to avoid plagiarism.
• Design of the research project. personalized coaching
• Formal aspects of the Final Essay

The sequence of the subjects for the dictation and in the assigned order responds to a didactic criterion of analysis, but the knowledge and approval of one does not necessarily depend on the study and evaluation of another.

The schedule and the specific information of the Curriculum, as well as the materials and documents, are available to our students in the online chair.

The Diploma is paid for in order to guarantee the financing of its activities. The amounts of said contributions are approved by the Rectorate of the Universidad de Mendoza, at the proposal of the Dean.

The tariff obligations of the students with the School run from the moment of registration and only cease when they complete the Diploma or when they decide to abandon their studies. In the latter case, the student must inform the Postgraduate and Continuing Education Department by means of a note expressing their decision. Otherwise, continue to be a student of the Universidad de Mendoza with the consequent charge of the tariffs that accrue from then on and until the date on which he has effectively communicated his resignation.

Universidad de Mendoza will recognize the following modalities of tariff reductions:

• From an Institution to a Student: the applicant may particularly request financial support to complete the Diploma, from Institutions that they consider relevant. These Institutions will be considered "SPONSORS" of the student(s), if they are legally constituted. The commitment to pay the tariff set by the Universidad de Mendoza, will be between the student and that sponsoring Institution, and, in the event that it does not comply with the corresponding payment obligations, the student will assume the payment of the debt and the readjustments that it may have.
• From one institution to the Universidad de Mendoza: In the case of legally constituted Institutions that are interested in the participation of their staff in the Diploma and that would like to register officially, they may do so if they assume the commitment to take charge of the fee and readjustment that corresponds to that or those students. It may provide for the granting of tariff reductions to organizations and companies based on the number of applicants they incorporate, as agreed by current regulations.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the teaching staff of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degree Courses: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant a 50% scholarship to the members of its teaching staff to carry out the corresponding Diploma within the framework of the Policy for the improvement of the School's teaching staff.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the graduate with a degree awarded by the same or to the advanced students of the same: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant a 25% scholarship to graduate professionals and advanced students of the Universidad de Mendoza.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to those who have financial impossibility or other special circumstances: the Diploma can grant scholarships to its students according to budgetary possibilities. The number of scholarships must not exceed 10% of the total number of registered students, unless authorized.

By virtue of the Agreement signed with the School of Economic and Legal Sciences of the Universidad del Aconcagua tariff reductions will be recognized for students, professors and graduates of said institution.

In all cases in which a scholarship has been granted, the payment of the annual registration fee (when applicable), and the payment of the Diploma fee will be exempt from this benefit.

Consult Postgraduate and Continuing Education about reductions and recognized scholarships for the Diploma through special Agreements.

Diploma students who have met the requirements established in current regulations to obtain the Diploma, the Universidad de Mendoza will issue the following certification:

"Higher Diploma in Protection of the Environment and Natural-Cultural Heritage”

To obtain the Diploma certificate, the following is required:

• prove 75% attendance to classes,
• approve all the modules that make up the Curriculum,
• pass the final evaluation,
• comply with tariff obligations.

Diplomas are not equivalent to undergraduate, graduate or undergraduate degrees.

Diploma students who do not meet the requirements, provided they have attended 75% of the classes, will be issued a certificate of attendance.

The Diploma or certificate of attendance in online mode is sent free of charge.