Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India

Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India highlights the environmental challenges that India faces, largely due to high population and limited natural resources, and discusses the gap between the intent of environmental policies and the actualization of those policies. Contributors posit that the protection of the environment poses a fundamental challenge to the nation’s desire to industrialize and develop more quickly, arguing that the conservation of biodiversity, protection of wetlands, prevention of environmental pollution, and promotion of ecological balance are all crucial in enabling sustainable development. This book poses the question of how large a role the judiciary system should play in the protection of the environment as a vital body that passes policies to promote conservation and sustainable development.

Conservation, Sustainability and Environmental Justice in India is a much-appreciated response to the ever-increasing problem of environmental degradation and sustainability. This collection examines the major environmental challenges confronting present and future generations and the approaches developed by international and domestic environmental law to address the issues. The book is a timely publication which will be helpful to the researchers, academics, and students of environment science.--B. Bhavana Rao, legal consultant, Ministry of Law and Justice, New Delhi, Dr. Alok Gupta's volume, Conservation, Sustainability and Environmental Justice in India, comes at a time when there is rapidly increasing awareness to the problem of environmental degradation and sustainability. This book will be useful to researchers, academics, environmentalists, and the like.--Shivani Singh, Amity University, This book will be well-recognized by scholars, activists, governments, and international and domestic readers. The contributors throw light on the links between environmental protection and the law. It will also serve as a valuable reference for scholars and practitioners and provide an excellent survey for newcomers to the field of environmental protection.--Kapil Garg, Birla Institute of Management Technology

Alok Gupta is assistant professor at Amity Law School.