The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India

Environmental law is a broad discipline covering issues such as nature conservation, the prevention or abatement of pollution, and waste management. It also encompasses concerns related to natural resources, such as forests, minerals, and fisheries, and the balance between their use and conservation. India has been at the forefront of jurisprudential developments among countries with similar environmental, geographical, socio-economic, and cultural conditions. Concurrently, the country has been receptive to ideas and principles arising from other parts of the world or from international law. The growth of environmental and natural resources law in India has been sustained in equal measure by growing environmental awareness and the increasingly dire nature of the problems associated with the environment and natural resources, ranging from local issues to the global climate crisis. At the same time, the continuous push for development has not abated, leading to recurrent pressure to weaken existing standards for environmental protection and the management and use of natural resources. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India offers the most comprehensive coverage of the diverse and complex discipline of environmental and natural resources law in India over the past fifty years. With forty-two contributions from law and non-law scholars, the Handbook presents diverse perspectives on several areas including biodiversity, climate change, water, forests, agriculture, health, resource extraction, and industrial development. By departing from the existing approach that examines natural resources law and environmental law separately, The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India offers a much-needed integrated analysis of the development of domestic jurisprudence vis-à-vis the environment and natural resources.

1. - Environment, Natural Resources, and Environmental History
2. - International Environmental Law and Interface with India's Domestic Law
3. - Cross-Fertilization of Environmental Law in the SAARC: Exploring Substantive and Constitutional Environmental Rights
4. - The Environment, the Constitution, and the Legal Framework at the National Level
5. - Environmental Movements and Law
6. - Governing the Environment in the 5th and 6th Schedule Areas
7. - Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Environment
8. - Economic Instruments and Economic Regulators
9. - Liability
10. - Sustainable Development: Exploring Jurisprudential and Policy Trajectories
11. - Prevention, Precaution, and Polluter Pays Principles
12. - Public Trust Doctrine
13. - Environmental Duties
14. - Rights of Nature
15. - Procedural Environmental Rights
16. - Due Process and Environmental Law
17. - Individual and Community Property Rights and Duties in Land and the Environment
18. - Agriculture, Food Systems, and the Environment
19. - Agriculture and Technology
20. - Conservation and Use of Biological Resources
21. - Biosafety in Synthetic Biology
22. - Marine Fisheries
23. - Protecting the Coastal and the Marine Environment
24. - Forest Management and Conservation Regime
25. - Forest Rights and the Forest Rights Act
26. - Ecosystems' Protection and Wildlife
27. - Air Quality Regulation
28. - Climate Change: Policy, Institutional, and Legal Frameworks
29. - Environmental Disasters and Climate Change
30. - Groundwater Law: Protection and Use
31. - Water Quality and Water Pollution
32. - Water Sharing and Protection: Inter-State Dimensions
33. - Water Disputes and the Environment: Transboundary Dimensions
34. - Health and the Environment
35. - Sanitation: Linkages with the Environment and Public Health
36. - Mining and the Environment
37. - Hazardous Waste
38. - The Bhopal Disaster and the Environment
39. - Energy and Sustainability
40. - Penalties and Compensation
41. - National Green Tribunal and the Environment
42. - Courts and Solid Waste Management in Urban Areas

Dr Philippe Cullet is Professor of International and Environmental Law at SOAS University of London and a Visiting Professor at the National Law University, Delhi. He received his doctoral degree in law from Stanford University, an MA in Development Studies from SOAS University of London, an LLM from King's College London, and a law degree from the University of Geneva. Dr Cullet has published extensively on environmental law, natural resources, water and sanitation, and socio-economic rights, and engages regularly with policymakers at the national and international levels. He is an Editor of the Law, Environment and Development (LEAD) Journal--a joint publication of SOAS University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), Geneva. Dr Lovleen Bhullar is an Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham. Previously, she was a Research Fellow in Regulation and Antimicrobial Resistance at Edinburgh Law School. Dr Bhullar holds an LLB degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, an LLM in Environmental Law, a PhD from SOAS University of London, and an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an Editor of the Law, Environment and Development (LEAD) journal--a joint publication of SOAS University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), Geneva. Dr Sujith Koonan is an Associate Professor at the Centre for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his PhD from SOAS University of London, where he was a recipient of the SOAS Doctoral Research Scholarship (2013-16). He holds an MPhil in International Law from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an LLM in Environmental Law and Human Rights from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. He is a Member, Editorial Board, of the Law, Environment and Development (LEAD) journal--a joint publication of SOAS University of London and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), Geneva. His main areas of interest are environmental law, water and sanitation, law and natural resources, international law, human rights, and agro-biodiversity.