Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Polluter Pays Principle Polluter Pays Principle is also known as the principle of extended producer responsibility. With the advent of the modern industrial revolution, the scheme of production in factories added the idea of externalizing the waste. It caused pressure on the […]
Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Precautionary Principle Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration, 1992 declares “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation.” The Precautionary Principle […]
Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Stockholm Declaration The term ‘sustainable development’ was first used in the Cocoyoc Declaration on Environment and Development held at Cocoyoc in Mexico between 8-12 October 1974. The symposium, chaired by Barbara Ward, president of the International Institute for Environment and Development, was […]
Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Meaning of Sustainable Development Man is both creature and moulder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and affords him the opportunity for intellectual, moral, social and spiritual growth. In the long and tortuous evolution of the human race on this […]