Environmental Protection and the Law

World Community is confronted by a grave threat to our healthy and hygienic environment and fragile eco-system by blind, barbaric, brutal and thoughtless plundering of forests, merciless rape of mother earth, indiscriminate mining, quarrying and looting of natures gifts, pollution of water and air, erosion of topsoil, deforestation, denudation and desertification and short-sighted attitude towards the grave problem of environment: eventually posing a threat to the very survival of mankind, flora and fauna; It thus requires an immediate attention to arrest the damage and its repair by unleashing a world wide movement against pollution, degradation and disaster by a wave of awareness and mobilized mass action for protection, preservation conservation and enhancement of environment and ecology in an organized, integrated and massive manner. This slim volume written by an eminent Jurist and Environmentalist Chetan Singh Mehta covers wide range of issues for protection of environment and ecology. This monograph is divided in two parts, part one contains the legal articles and case study on environmental protection and laws and part two contains the legislations, acts, rules and world charter for nature.