Redefining environmental governance in India: Time for green politics
Author Affiliations
- 1Department of Environmental Studies, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi, Delhi - 110094, India
Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 7, Issue (8), Pages 20-22, August,14 (2018)
Abstract
India\'s electoral politics is dominated by promises ranging from bringing an end to corruption, reducing inflation, ensuring better public health care system, education for all, ensuring women safety, and creation of more jobs for the youth. Environmental issues and problems rarely find a space in the political manifestos. Unless the environmental problems become the new focal points of electoral battles in India, little can be done to safeguard the deteriorating environmental quality and solving grave environmental problems in the new economic superpower of the world.
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