Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy: Indian Perspective, , M.S. Bhatt, , Shahid Ashraf, , Asheref Illiyan, Aakar Books, 8189833596

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Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy: Indian Perspective

M.S. Bhatt (Editor) Shahid Ashraf (Editor) Asheref Illiyan (Editor)

Synopsis India is committed to making a tangible contribution to the global efforts to reduce trade-off between the existing pattern of growth and the quality of environment. Our constitution imparts seminal importance to a clean environment. A number of acts has been enacted and policies have been formulated in response to these constitutional mandates. Institutional structures have been put in place. Budgetary allocation has registered a marked increase. Civil society's involvement in protecting the quality of environment has also grown exponentially over the years. Courts have pronounced some landmark judgements as a result of public interest litigations. Green movements have also become more organized and broad based. All these developments have indeed raised the level of awareness about the gravity of the situation and yielded positive results. Be that as it may, the present state of environmental health in our country is far from satisfactory. The existing legal-cum-policy framework has proved to be exceedingly inadequate and, in many cases, ineffective. Against this background, the National Environmental Policy-2006 (NEP) assumes historical significance. It attempts to highlight the challenges posed by the degradation of the quality of environment at all levels and proposes policy frameworks and guidelines. Regardless of its novel and encouraging features, the NEP has several weaknesses. Despite these, it can still yield dividends, provided effective and appropriate implementation mechanisms are accorded timely and desired attention. Its litmus test lies in its implementation. This obviously calls for informed debates on the various aspect of the NEP. The present book attempts to delineate the agenda for this debate. It is expected to prove a useful addition to the received literature on environment and environment policies an serve as benign guide to the effective implementation of NEP.

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About the authors

M.S. Bhatt

M.S. Bhatt is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has been associated with the University of Kashmir, Srinagar; the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University; the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore; and the Centre for Rural and Industrial Research, Chandigarh among others. His main areas of interest being development economics, agrarian economics, environmental economics and Kashmir studies. Prof. Bhatt was a member of the expert committee for economic reforms (Godbole Committee) appointed by the Government of Jammu & Kashmir. He has also acted as a principal investigator in a number of research projects. He is currently directing a number of research projects. He has authored two books and published more than seventy articles.

Shahid Ashraf

Shahid Ashraf (b. 1959) is a brilliant product of the Aligarh Muslim University securing first position in first class in Econimics and is recipient of the University Gold Medal. He took his M.Phil. Degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His specialization is in industrial and regional economics. Currently he is on the faculty of the Aligarh Muslim University and teaches Econometrics and Indian Economy to post-graduate classes. He has been selected for admission to Cornell University, U.S.A. towards fulfillment of his Ph.D. degree. A Member of several academic organizations, he has participated in various seminars and conferences and is presently working on Investment Behaviour in Manufacturing Sector

Asheref Illiyan

Asheref Illiyan is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi. His main areas of interest include economics of information technology, agriculture and rural development, planning and decentralized governance and industrial economics. He has published a number of articles in reputed national and international journals on planning and rural development, economics of information technology and engineering goods industries. He has to his credit 1 edited book.

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