Green laws
When the Republic of India began its democratic journey in the 1950s, people were given incentives to cut and clear forests to bring more land under cultivation and help alleviate poverty. This scenario has turned full circle today, with every inch of forest cover being protected as sacred.
This journey of the Indian republic and the issue of development versus environment is meticulously documented in the book Environmental Law and Policy in India by Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz, now in its second edition.
What encompasses environment and ecology has become a legally complex issue. The interpretation of these concepts gets wider with the high courts and Supreme Court extending the scope of what is
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