Environment and Social Issues – Page 6

TRACING THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PERSONHOOD

Environmental entities are given the status of legal persons under the idea of environmental personhood. The idea acknowledges that nature has rights and that those rights should be upheld by a court of law. As a result, the environment has broad and strong legal safeguards, regardless of how closely it relates to human interests. This…
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Urban Flooding is more than just climate change: The case of Bangalore

This article traces Bangalore’s history of development particularly diving into the history and political evolution of storm water drains. It identifies commodification of public commons like lake beds, storm water drains, to be a strong cause of Urban flooding. Real estate capital flow in 1991 is traced in interaction with government institutions and public commons.…
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Does India Need to Work Towards an Environment Taxation System?

India’s Union Government recently approved its Nationally Determined Contributions but India’s green sector is barely getting the annual financing it needs. To bridge the lacuna the paper attempts to demonstrate the need for India to increase its accountability and work towards a revenue-neutral environmental taxation system that is both punitive and incentivised. This leads to…
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Polluter Pays Principle: An Analysis of the Indian Context

The ‘Polluter Pays Principle’, first conceptualized through the OECD Guiding Principles, is a well-established principle of law which puts an onus on the polluter responsible for causing pollution to bear the costs of his damages and to provide compensation for the restoration of the environment. It was later codified as a general principle of international…
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Striving for More than the Bare Minimum in Corporate Environmental Leadership

There has been a growing need for environmentally conscious business decisions; however, we mostly only see companies trying to get away with less than the bare minimum. In an unprecedented move, Patagonia has gone above and beyond in its mission to protect the environment and do no harm, changing the company’s entire structure. This leaves…
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Coral Reefs: Their Importance and Subsequent Destruction

Over the past few decades, due to various human activities, they have come under the threat of extinction. However, recently, coral reefs have bounced back across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Need for Scalability in Climate Change Solutions

Climate change is a problem that continues to persist and instead of finding solutions, we are discovering more ways through which human activity continues to worsen the situation. Most people blame the capitalist system for the creation of a culture of constant growth but many also look to solve these issues using certain aspects of…
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ECOFEMINISM – A WAY TO CONNECT AND UNDERSTAND OPPRESSIONS

Environment and climate have been burning issues in recent times. Here, it becomes important to identify the reasons and solutions for the ongoing crisis. Ecofeminism has emerged as one of the lenses to look into the scenario. It not only brings up a very inclusive understanding of the issue but also tries to address other…
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Keeping up with Fast Fashion

Fashion and clothes are an important part of everyone’s lives today. In fact, the global apparel market is worth 3 trillion dollars hence, accounting for 2% of the global GDP. This statistic clearly indicates that the fashion and clothing industry is not a small one. People find it necessary to keep up with the latest…
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Water Economics: What Does the Price of Water Tell Us?

When discussing the economics of water, it is important to first, identify the need to set a price, what factors influence the pricing, what challenges are faced along the way and how to account for them in the price itself.
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Book Review—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 masterpiece The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a phenomenal work that showcases the drastic impacts of human ignorance on climate change.
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Jal Vivad: An Enquiry Into India’s Water Disputes

Conflicts are eternal, what matters is how they are dealt with. India has managed to keep her international water conflicts at bay but her domestic conflicts often get out of hand and become violent at the first chance that people see.
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