Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Principle of Equity and Equality Economic growth can only be sustained when it is based on the principle of equity and equality. Common ownership of resources and their equitable distribution is a fundamental tenet of the idea of the modern welfare state. […]
Indian Legal System > Civil Laws > Environmental Laws > Sustainable Development > Rio Declaration Twenty years after Stockholm, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development was held in Rio de Janeiro from 3rd to 14th June 1992 with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new […]
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 […]