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Gitanjali [Gita] Nain GillNorthumbria University · Northumbria Law School
Gitanjali [Gita] Nain Gill
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Cities and urban communities constitute a challenging paradox. They are contributors to climate change and simultaneously are essential focal bases for economic activity. Urbanization, population growth, economic development, and prosperity contribute to increased city greenhouse gas emissions. Envisioning and shaping a shift toward more ambitious...
This article examines the application of the intersec-tionality framework to the Indian statutory institutional environmental public hearing (EPH) process that seeks to promote environmental justice. Intersectionality provides a framework to capture the processes of gender marginalization and exclusion. It critically demonstrates how the required g...
There is an urgency to address societal challenges due to earth's environmental crisis and its capacity to sustain human well-being. In this context, 'transformations towards sustainability' move to centre-stage and are increasingly institutionalised within global scientific and policy discourses. Sustainability transformations involve reorientatio...
The Covid-19 narrative spotlights the necessity to conserve biological diversity (biodiversity) including ecosystems and wildlife. Biodiversity problems are global, and associated governance issues range beyond geographical and spatial boundaries. The globalisation and internationalisation of biodiversity concerns have resulted in the emergence of...
This article inter-relates Julian Agyeman’s Just Sustainabilities paradigm with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An “embedded lens’ approach is adopted highlighting Agyeman’s essential elements (equity, meeting the needs of present and future generation, justice in terms of recognition, and living within ecosystem limits) alongside those o...
The precautionary principle is accepted in India as a fundamental tool to promote sustainable development and is employed within Indian environmental governance to promote better health and environmental decisions. Scientific uncertainty is at the core of the precautionary principle. The application of the precautionary principle is an open-ended i...
In India, a symbiotic relationship has been created between legal and scientific experts operating as joint decision-makers and adjudicators of environmental conflicts within the context of the specialised green judiciary and the National Green Tribunal (NGT).
The NGT plays a major role in developing both environmental jurisprudence and its practi...
This article documents the life-cycle of the National Green Tribunal of India (NGT). The NGT is officially described as a “specialised body equipped with necessary expertise to handle environmental disputes involving multi-disciplinary issues”—a forum offering greater plurality for environmental justice. Its international and national recognition p...
Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals. Strikingly, the list of jurisdictions that have chosen to do this include numerous developing countries, including Bangladesh, Kenya and Malawi. Indeed, it seems that developing nations have ta...
This article argues that the involvement of technical experts in decision making promotes better environmental results while simultaneously recognizing the uncertainty in science. India’s record as a progressive jurisdiction in environmental matters through its proactive judiciary is internationally recognized. The neoteric National Green Tribunal...
Access to environmental justice is the first step to the achievement of environmental justice goals by articulating in the language of equity the assurance of legal standing for all affected and interested parties; right of appeal or review; specialized environmental courts and other practical dispute resolution mechanisms.
In this context, India’...
Access to environmental justice is the first step to the achievement of environmental justice goals by articulating in the language of equity the assurance of legal standing for all affected and interested parties; the right of appeal or review; specialised environmental courts and other practical dispute resolution mechanisms. In this context, Ind...
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– The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of a global challenge: the relationship between commercial development and the protection of eco-fragile systems particularly where river water is involved. It reviews and critiques the legal and political processes that underpinned the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2010 in Delhi and the bui...
Access to environmental justice is a key component to ensure just and equitable outcomes for sustainable development. This paper aims to assess the present judicial structures that offer access to environmental justice in India. The initiative, presented below has wider international purchase as it is a case study of a growing judicial development....
This article considers the passage of the National Green Tribunal Act 2010 in India and the proposal to constitute a National
Green Tribunal as a specialist body to hear environmental cases. The article considers the debate surrounding the introduction
of a specialist environmental tribunal and explores questions of its composition, jurisdiction an...