• PRANTIK ROY

Global profile of environmental issues has risen significantly during the past few decades. The incidents of Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984) and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989) have drawn much attention around the world long back. Today, population growth followed by intensifying tendency of urbanisation has brought about new challenges. In India, at this moment in time, development is having an increasing impact on the environment. For India, challenges of arresting the pace of degradation of environment are redoubtable due to the imperatives of maintaining, inter alia, high economic growth. The problem of environmental sabotage in an increasingly small world concerns all countries. Realising that planetary environment is indivisible, Environmental Governance has assumed significance. In this backdrop, the present study made an attempt to explore the origin of modern Environmental Governance in India and also highlighting the gradual evolution thereof. The study is conducted mainly based on existing secondary sources of data. The study, in brief, finds that Environmental Governance is a wide and rapidly evolving dynamic area. However, the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment marked a watershed in the evolution of humanity’s relationship with the earth and global concern about the environment. The conference’s motto of “One Planet” became iconic for the modern environmental movement. In India, although the Constitution and country’s structure of polity provide possibility for a multi-tiered Environmental Governance system, yet this possibility has not been sufficiently explored. In India, indeed, Environmental Governance had emerged in the seventies and has assumed public appeal in the subsequent years.

Environment, Environmental Sabotage and Environmental Governance

"ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYTICAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 11, page no.1-6, November 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908616.pdf

"ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN INDIA: A CRITICAL ANALYTICAL", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 11, page no. pp1-6, November 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908616.pdf