Environment and Social Development: Role of Legislation and Government Policies

This paper has been published in Peer-reviewed International Journal "Remarking An Analisation"                     

URL : https://www.socialresearchfoundation.com/new/publish-journal.php?editID=9002

Publisher : Social Research Foundation, Kanpur (SRF International) 

Abstract :  Nature and society are interlinked; all living organisms and human beings with their growing scientific, technological, and commercial inventions for greater development, depend upon environmental goods and services for their very survival. However, it is also true that today, more than ever, nature or environment also reciprocally is craving for attention towards its conservation & protection from over-exploitation of its resources in the name of growing consumerism in urban, industrial areas.

The present paper attempts to highlight the importance of proper use and conservation of NR for the sustainable development of societies. Its sociological perspective is to argue that more than the natural disasters produced by imbalances in terms of environmental disequilibrium, it is the social structural disequilibrium that is disturbing people’s livelihoods.

Legislation and its implementation by the government go a long way in controlling the harm being done to the environment in various ways/forms. The limitations of legal Acts need to be regularized through appropriate interventions through not only governance, but by involving community-based organizations and the people themselves through adequate knowledge-building and collective action.