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Doctorate
May 31, 2025
36 Months
This course was designed to empower experienced professionals with advanced knowledge and research skills to enable them to drive innovation. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an DBA degree from Euro Asian, Geneva.
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Doctor Degree in Business Administration
1. Foundations of Environmental Law
Study the foundational principles of Environmental Law: sustainable development, precautionary principle, polluter pays, intergenerational equity, environmental justice, and public participation. Understand their legal basis, global application, and relevance in shaping policy. Analyze case law, treaties, and their role in balancing environmental protection with development in a legal-political context.
Study the historical development of environmental legislation, key international treaties, national legal frameworks, and landmark cases. Understand shifts from reactive to preventive laws, integration of sustainable development, and the role of science, policy, and public participation in shaping laws. Analyze evolving legal principles and institutional mechanisms addressing environmental challenges.
Learn the principles of environmental justice, including fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental laws. Study how environmental burdens disproportionately affect marginalized communities, legal frameworks addressing inequities, policy tools for equitable outcomes, and case studies. Explore intersections with human rights, climate justice, and sustainable development goals.
Study core ethical theories (utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics) in relation to environmental responsibility. Explore deep ecology, ecofeminism, anthropocentrism vs. ecocentrism, and indigenous philosophies. Understand the moral status of nature, intergenerational justice, and sustainability. Analyze how these ethical frameworks inform and critique environmental laws and policy-making processes.
2. International Environmental Law
Understand the legal frameworks, objectives, and enforcement mechanisms of key Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). Study their role in global environmental governance, compliance challenges, state obligations, and the interplay with national laws. Analyze case law, institutional structures, and the effectiveness of MEAs in addressing climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable development goals.
Study the UNFCCC’s legal framework, principles (e.g., common but differentiated responsibilities), institutional mechanisms, and compliance procedures. Analyze the Paris Agreement's goals, nationally determined contributions (NDCs), transparency framework, and enforcement gaps. Explore state obligations, equity issues, climate justice, and the interplay between international, regional, and domestic climate change legal regimes.
Study jurisdictional zones (territorial sea, EEZ, high seas), UNCLOS provisions, marine biodiversity protection, flag state responsibilities, pollution control, maritime enforcement, and dispute resolution. Focus on climate change impacts, deep-sea mining, marine protected areas, and the interplay between international treaties and national regulations in safeguarding ocean ecosystems and coastal community rights.
Study legal frameworks governing transboundary pollution, international environmental treaties (e.g., Basel, Stockholm, and Kyoto Protocols), dispute resolution mechanisms, state responsibility, environmental impact assessments, and the role of international courts. Analyze case studies and assess policy responses to global environmental challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss.
3. Environmental Policy and Governance
Understand the distinctions and applications of regulatory, market-based, and voluntary policy instruments in addressing environmental issues. Focus on their legal frameworks, effectiveness, enforcement mechanisms, and integration in international and national contexts. Analyze case studies to evaluate their impact, challenges, and role in promoting sustainable environmental governance and compliance.
Study key environmental governance models like command-and-control, market-based instruments, and participatory approaches. Understand international frameworks (e.g., Paris Agreement), institutional roles, compliance mechanisms, and equity principles. Analyze effectiveness, adaptability, and accountability in policy implementation. Focus on legal frameworks, stakeholder engagement, and the interplay between global, national, and local governance structures.
Understand how public institutions and bureaucracy shape environmental governance, implement policies, enforce regulations, and balance development with sustainability. Explore institutional accountability, transparency, inter-agency coordination, administrative law, and policy effectiveness. Examine how bureaucratic behavior, capacity, and political influence impact environmental protection and compliance at national and international levels.
Focus on understanding evaluation frameworks, legal compliance mechanisms, cost-benefit analysis, stakeholder engagement, environmental justice, indicators for sustainability, qualitative and quantitative assessment methods, and integration of scientific data. Learn to critically assess policy effectiveness and ensure alignment with environmental goals and legal standards.
4. Environmental Rights and Human Rights
Study the evolution and recognition of the right to a healthy environment in international, regional, and national frameworks. Focus on key treaties, soft law instruments, case law, state obligations, and procedural rights. Analyze intersections with human rights, environmental justice, climate change law, and the role of international institutions in enforcement.
Study the legal recognition of Indigenous environmental rights, traditional ecological knowledge, land tenure systems, international frameworks (like UNDRIP), environmental justice, and the role of Indigenous peoples in environmental governance. Analyze policy impacts, sovereignty issues, and case law to understand how law protects or undermines Indigenous stewardship of natural resources.
Study the legal frameworks enabling public access to justice in environmental matters, including procedural rights, environmental courts, and public interest litigation. Examine barriers to access, the role of NGOs, judicial activism, and international instruments like the Aarhus Convention. Analyze case law shaping environmental accountability and participatory governance.
Study the Aarhus Convention’s three pillars: access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. Focus on state obligations, procedural rights, implementation challenges, and its influence on global environmental governance. Analyze its role in enhancing environmental democracy and accountability within legal and policy frameworks.
5. Climate Change Law and Policy
Understand international and national legal instruments addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation. Study frameworks like the UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, and domestic climate laws. Analyze the integration of environmental, human rights, and sustainable development principles. Explore compliance mechanisms, policy implementation challenges, and the role of courts in enforcing climate obligations.
Understand international legal frameworks on climate finance and technology transfer, including UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, and CBDR. Study funding mechanisms like GCF, equity in resource allocation, and barriers faced by developing countries. Analyze the role of intellectual property rights, innovation, and state obligations in ensuring effective climate justice and technology dissemination.
Understand the legal frameworks governing emissions trading systems (ETS), including cap-and-trade mechanisms, compliance markets, and voluntary markets. Study international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, carbon pricing policies, environmental integrity, market-based climate tools, and the role of law in ensuring transparency, accountability, and equitable participation in carbon markets.
Understand the legal framework and policy role of National Action Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Examine how they reflect state commitments, compliance mechanisms, climate justice, transparency, and accountability. Analyze their integration into domestic environmental governance and implications for global climate change mitigation and adaptation.
6. Environmental Impact & Strategic Environmental Assessment
Understand the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, its legal frameworks, and procedural steps. Focus on international and national regulations, public participation, environmental justice, and decision-making standards. Analyze the role of EIA in sustainable development, compliance enforcement, and judicial review. Compare EIA laws across jurisdictions to assess policy effectiveness and reform needs.
Understand the legal frameworks and principles governing public consultation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), including procedural rights, transparency, access to information, and participation. Analyze case law, effectiveness, and comparative practices globally. Explore the role of public input in shaping environmental decisions and enhancing environmental justice, accountability, and policy legitimacy.
From the perspective of a PhD in Environmental Law & Policy, learning about Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) should include its legal frameworks, integration into policy-making, procedural steps, public participation, transboundary implications, sustainability goals, and its role in decision-making. Emphasis should be on ensuring accountability, transparency, and environmental justice.
Learn the legal framework governing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), judicial and administrative review mechanisms, enforcement challenges, stakeholder roles, and compliance monitoring. Understand how EIA laws are implemented, contested, and reformed across jurisdictions. Focus on procedural justice, access to information, and public participation within the context of environmental governance and sustainable development.
7. Natural Resource Management and Law
Understand key national and international legal frameworks for forest and wildlife protection, including conservation policies, biodiversity treaties, enforcement mechanisms, indigenous rights, and sustainable development. Analyze the effectiveness of legal instruments, institutional roles, judicial interventions, and policy gaps in promoting ecological justice and protecting forest-dependent communities and endangered species.
Study legal frameworks governing water access, distribution, and conservation. Focus on international treaties, human rights to water, transboundary water governance, climate change impacts, indigenous water rights, and sustainable development. Analyze case law, policy instruments, and institutional mechanisms ensuring equitable, sustainable, and legally enforceable water rights within environmental law contexts.
Study land use planning principles, zoning types, environmental impact assessments, and regulatory frameworks. Understand how land use laws balance development and environmental protection. Analyze case law, public participation, and sustainable planning. Explore conflicts between private property rights and environmental policy, emphasizing legal tools promoting ecological resilience and climate adaptation in land regulation.
Understand legal frameworks supporting sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem services. Study international treaties (e.g., CBD), national regulations, agroecological practices, and policy tools incentivizing sustainable land use. Analyze legal challenges, enforcement gaps, and human rights implications to promote environmentally sound and socially just agricultural systems within environmental governance.
8. Environmental Crime and Enforcement
Understand legal frameworks addressing wildlife trafficking and forest crimes, including CITES and national laws. Study enforcement challenges, governance gaps, corruption, indigenous rights, and the role of international cooperation. Analyze policy effectiveness, environmental justice, and the impact on biodiversity and climate change to propose legal reforms for stronger environmental protection.
Focus on legal frameworks regulating industrial emissions, principles of environmental liability (strict, absolute), polluter pays principle, case law analysis, corporate accountability, regulatory enforcement mechanisms, and environmental justice. Understand international conventions, national laws, and the role of judiciary in shaping environmental liability norms and compliance.
Study the structure, jurisdiction, and effectiveness of enforcement mechanisms in environmental law, including international and domestic tribunals. Focus on compliance strategies, sanctions, judicial remedies, and case law. Analyze challenges in enforcement, role of civil society, and evolving norms in environmental governance. Examine tribunal decisions shaping global environmental policy.
Study the structure, jurisdiction, and effectiveness of enforcement mechanisms in environmental law, including international and domestic tribunals. Focus on compliance strategies, sanctions, judicial remedies, and case law. Analyze challenges in enforcement, role of civil society, and evolving norms in environmental governance. Examine tribunal decisions shaping global environmental policy.
9. Sustainable Development and Legal Frameworks
Understand the legal frameworks supporting SDGs, especially Goals 13, 14, and 15. Analyze environmental treaties, national policies, and enforcement mechanisms. Study the integration of SDGs into environmental governance, climate justice, and sustainable resource management. Explore accountability, compliance, and the role of international institutions in promoting environmental sustainability and legal reform.
Understand regulatory frameworks, sustainable development principles, market-based instruments (e.g., carbon trading), environmental governance, policy integration, eco-innovation incentives, compliance mechanisms, and international legal instruments that promote a transition toward low-carbon, resource-efficient, and inclusive economic systems.
Study the legal frameworks, economic rationale, and environmental effectiveness of taxes and subsidies. Focus on carbon pricing, polluter-pays principle, green subsidies, and international practices. Analyze challenges in implementation, equity impacts, compliance mechanisms, and policy integration. Explore case studies, WTO implications, and their role in promoting sustainable development and climate goals.
Understand the mandates, functions, and legal influence of key international institutions like UNEP, WTO, and others in shaping environmental governance. Analyze their role in treaty development, enforcement, dispute resolution, and policy integration. Explore institutional effectiveness, cooperation, and conflicts in promoting sustainable development and environmental protection across jurisdictions.
Conduct original research to address a real-world business problem. Learn to formulate research questions, apply theoretical frameworks, and contribute to academic and professional knowledge. Every Learner will go through these following six simple steps to complete their Thesis with the help of a Professional Expert.
What Our Learners Have To Say About Us
Pursuing my Doctorate in Business Administration was more than just an academic pursuit—it was a transformational journey. The research support and global exposure helped me establish myself as a thought leader in strategic management.
Analyze how Amazon or Netflix navigated shifting market conditions through strategic foresight, innovative thinking, and effective change management. Examine key decisions, adaptations to technology and consumer behavior, and leadership in driving transformation. Highlight lessons in resilience, long-term vision, and innovation that enabled sustained competitive advantage.
Analyze Satya Nadella’s transformational leadership at Microsoft, focusing on how his leadership style influenced employee motivation and drove cultural change. Examine key initiatives, communication strategies, and leadership behaviors that reshaped the company’s vision, collaboration, and innovation. Evaluate outcomes through performance improvements, employee engagement, and organizational culture transformation.
Analyze how Apple maintained supply chain resilience during COVID-19, focusing on logistics optimization, risk management strategies, and supplier relationship management. Examine disruptions faced, Apple’s response, and lessons learned. Highlight how Apple adapted operations, diversified suppliers, and leveraged technology to ensure continuity and meet global demand during the pandemic.
In this case study, analyze Tesla’s approach to raising capital and taking financial risks. Evaluate its valuation methods, capital structure decisions, and strategic financial choices. Assess how these influenced growth, investor confidence, and market positioning, while considering implications for long-term sustainability and competitive advantage in the electric vehicle industry.
In this case study, analyze how Airbnb achieved rapid growth through disruptive innovation. Focus on its unique business model, how it scaled operations globally, and secured funding to fuel expansion. Examine key strategies, challenges faced, and the impact of innovation on the hospitality industry’s traditional dynamics.
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Analyze how Coca-Cola tailors its branding and marketing strategies to different regions using consumer psychology insights and data-driven approaches. Examine specific regional campaigns, cultural adaptations, and how consumer behavior influences branding decisions. Highlight the effectiveness of personalized marketing and the role of data in shaping Coca-Cola’s global yet local brand presence.
Analyze the Volkswagen emissions scandal by examining the ethical lapses, failures in compliance, and the role of the board. Evaluate how decisions were made, who was responsible, and how stronger governance could have prevented it. Recommend strategies to enhance ethical decision-making, regulatory compliance, and board accountability in corporate settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is a doctoral-level program for professionals who want to lead through research and
innovation. It blends academic depth with real-world impact, helping you turn workplace
challenges into meaningful, research-driven solutions.
Yes, absolutely. It's built with your schedule in mind. You can pursue this PhD alongside your
job, with flexible study hours and a structure that respects your work-life balance.
This is a blended program, primarily conducted online. You'll learn through a mix of live virtual
sessions, recorded lectures, guided mentorship, and independent research. No campus visits
required—unless you choose to attend optional events.
You’ll learn from globally recognized faculty—experienced researchers, tenured professors, and
industry experts. They’ll not only teach you but guide your research journey with real insight and
personalized attention.
Instead of a traditional thesis, you’ll work on a Practicum Research Project. It’s based on a real
issue from your work or industry. With your advisor’s help, you’ll research it rigorously and may
even publish it, depending on your goals.
Not at all. This PhD is designed for professionals, not career academics. You’ll be supported
through every research step—from forming questions to analyzing data—with practical
guidance tailored to your experience level.
Most learners complete the program in about 2.5 to 3 years, depending on how much time you
dedicate. The flexible design means you can move at your own pace, balancing study with your
personal and professional life.
Yes. The degree is awarded by Euro Asian University in Estonia, a recognized institution within
the European Higher Education Area. It holds academic value across Europe, the U.S., and
beyond.
Publishing is not required but highly encouraged. If your work has practical or academic value,
your advisor can guide you in submitting it to journals or presenting it at conferences.
The cohort includes senior executives, consultants, educators, entrepreneurs, and mid-career
professionals. Everyone brings unique experiences, making for rich peer discussions and
networking opportunities.
Whether you want to teach, lead strategic transformation, consult, or start your own research
firm, this PhD helps position you as a subject matter expert and decision-maker in your domain.
The application is simple. Share your academic and professional background, express your
research interests, and have a short conversation with our admissions team. From there, we’ll
guide you through every step
Our advisors are available around the clock to answer questions and support your educational journey. Connect with us today to explore how upGrad can help you meet your career goals.
