Environment and Justice

The administration of Environmental justice has not attracted much attention of the scholars in the field of environment law within and outside India. The book makes an humble start in this branch of the Indian Environment Jurisprudence. It opens new vistas of research for the future growth of the emerging branch of the Environment Jurisprudence. There are allegations and counter-allegations that the Indian judiciary is incompetent or super-innovative. In this world of currents and cross-currents an humble impartial assessment is made in the book. The book takes note of the role of the Indian Courts in the Present Decade. It examines the processes and niceties adopted by the judiciary and highlights its success and failure in protecting the Indian environment. The book gives an insight into the judicial handling of environmental litigations. It informs the types of petitioners and defendants and subject matter of disputes. It disseminate informations about tools used by the judiciary and the time consumed in the administration of environmental justice. The book exposes the unexposed who played a negative or environment friendly role in the protection of environment. A specific study of the outputs of the Indian judiciary is made pointing out the merits and flaws and their effects on the Indian environment. The judicial activism has brought in new environmentally friendly principles and provided new vision to the then environmentally blind Constitution. These matters find a place in the book.