Professional Documents
Culture Documents
to
Environmental law
Environment: Definition
Environment includes
water, air and land
and
the inter-relationship which exists
among and between water, air, land
and
human beings, other living creatures, plants,
micro- organisms and property
S.2(a) EPA
Anthropogenic approach
Eco-centrism
Anthropology
Political science
Economics
Biology
Ecology
Forestry,
Sources
(i) common law
(ii) statute law
(iii) customs and practices
(iv) international Conventions
DECISIONS OF COURTS
Nuisance action
Judicial Review
Statutes
Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972- WLPA
Water(Prevention and Control of Pollution)
Act 1974
Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 FCA
Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act
1981
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 - EPA
Public Liabilities Insurance Act 1991 - PLIA
Bio-diversity Act 2002 - BDA
Scheduled Tribes And Other Forest Dwellers
Act 2006
Green Tribunal Act 2011 - GTA
Benefits of Statutes
International
Conventions
Stockholm 1972
Rio 1992
Johannesburg 2002
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora 1973 (CITES)
Convention
on
Bio-Diversity
1992(CBD)