Environmental Law (Old Edition)

The book focusses on the various aspects of environmental law. It incorporates all the latest case laws up to December, 2011. Important decisions have been given in the appendix of the book, enabling the reader to refer to the original text of the decisions. A new chapter on Coastal Zone Management in India has been added. The author has taken care to incorporate all relevant statutory law, with amendments. 

The following new topics have been included:

• National Green Tribunal Act, 2010

• Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Slaughter House) Rules, 2001

• Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006

• Ambient Air Quality Standards, 2009

• Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2011

• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, 2000

• Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing, 2010 

This edition incorporates the latest developments in the area of International Environmental Law. Pollution control provisions under the Law of Torts; the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Criminal Procedure Code, 1973; Forest Act, 1927; and Factories Act, 1948 have been thoroughly analysed and explained. 

The book covers the latest syllabus of the LL.B course as prescribed in the major Universities across India. One of the novel features which has been brought out in this edition is that leading cases on the subject specified in the syllabus of law schools have been included.