The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India by Philippe Cullet, Lovleen Bhullar, and Sujith Koonan – Edition 2024

Foreword
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Background and Context
1. Environment, Natural Resources, and Environmental History, Vinita Damodaran and Sourav Kumar Mahanta
2. International Environmental Law and Interface with India’s Domestic Law, Bharat H. Desai
3. Cross-Fertilization of Environmental Law in the SAARC: Exploring Substantive and Constitutional Environmental Rights, Shawkat Alam
4. The Environment, the Constitution, and the Legal Framework at the National Level, Shyam Divan
5. Environmental Movements and Law, Nairita Roy Chowdhury
Part II: Institutional and Regulatory Dimensions
6. Governing the Environment in the 5th and 6th Schedule Areas, Virginius Xaxa
7. Bilateral Investment Treaties and the Environment, Prabhash Ranjan
8. Economic Instruments and Economic Regulators, M.N. Murty and Sushama Murty
9. Liability, Charu Sharma and Vishavjeet Chaudhary
Part III: Principles and Concepts
10. Sustainable Development: Exploring Jurisprudential and Policy Trajectories, Nupur Chowdhury and Haaris Moosa
11. Prevention, Precaution, and Polluter Pays Principles, Preeta Dhar and Parul Gupta
12. Public Trust Doctrine, Roopa Madhav
13. Environmental Duties, Shalini Iyengar
14. Rights of Nature, Stellina Jolly
15. Procedural Environmental Rights, Shiju Mazhuvanchery
16. Due Process and Environmental Law, Arpitha Kodiveri
Part IV: Land, Agriculture, and Biodiversity
17. Individual and Community Property Rights and Duties in Land and the Environment, M.S. Vani
18. Agriculture, Food Systems, and the Environment, Zainab Lokhandwala
19. Agriculture and Technology, Jagjit Kaur Plahe and Wendell S.C.L. Cornwall
20. Conservation and Use of Biological Resources, Alphonsa Jojan
21. Biosafety in Synthetic Biology, Sophy K.J.
Part V: Fisheries and Marine Environment
22. Marine Fisheries, Divya Karnad
23. Protecting the Coastal and the Marine Environment, Tony George Puthucherril
Part VI: Forests, Ecosystems, and People
24. Forest Management and Conservation Regime, Sharachchandra Lélé
25. Forest Rights and the Forest Rights Act, Shomona Khanna
26. Ecosystems’ Protection and Wildlife, Sanjay Upadhyay
Part VII: Air, Climate Change, and Disasters
27. Air Quality Regulation, Shibani Ghosh
28. Climate Change: Policy, Institutional, and Legal Frameworks, Navroz K. Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, and Anirudh Sridhar
29. Environmental Disasters and Climate Change, Birsha Ohdedar
Part VIII: Water
30. Groundwater Law: Protection and Use, Himanshu Kulkarni and Kumar Satyam
31. Water Quality and Water Pollution, Aviram Sharma
32. Water Sharing and Protection: Inter-State Dimensions, K.J. Joy, Neha Bhadbhade, Sarita Bhagat, and Abraham Samuel
33. Water Disputes and the Environment: Transboundary Dimensions, Srinivas Chokkakula
Part IX: Health and Sanitation
34. Health and the Environment, Awadhendra Sharan
35. Sanitation: Linkages with the Environment and Public Health, Tanvi Bhatkal and Lyla Mehta
Part X: Resource Extraction, Industrial Development, and Energy
36. Mining and the Environment, Sarvajeet Kumar Sinha and Roopa Madhav
37. Hazardous Waste, T.R. Subramanya and Aruna L.
38. The Bhopal Disaster and the Environment, Arpitha Kodiveri and Salil Tripathi
39. Energy and Sustainability, Uday Shankar and Arindam Basu
Part XI: Enforcement and Litigation
40. Penalties and Compensation, Dhvani Mehta and Debadityo Sinha
41. National Green Tribunal and the Environment, Gitanjali Nain Gill
42. Courts and Solid Waste Management in Urban Areas, Kaveri Gill
Index