Environmental Law and Protection

Contents: Preface. 1. Environmental protection in India. 2. Air pollution. 3. Water pollution. 4. Noise pollution. 5. The Environment Protection Act, 1986. 6. Air Pollution Act, 1981. 7. Water Pollution Act, 1974. 8. Air pollution -- its legal control. 9. The Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. 10. The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Act, 1991. Bibliography.

"The central focus of this book is on environmental law and its protection in the age of rapid modernization. Environmental problems have attracted the attention of a wide cross-section of people all over the world during the last two decades. People are becoming increasingly conscious of a variety of problems like global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, famines, droughts, floods scarcity of fuel, firewood and fodder, pollution of air and water and problems from hazardous chemicals and radiation which have adverse effects on the environment.

It is clear that a concern for environment is essentially a desire to see that national development proceeds along rational sustainable lines. Environmental conservation is, in fact, the vary basis of all development." (jacket)