Deliberating Environmental Policy in India - Sunayana (University of Lausanne Ganguly - Bog

As one of the world¿s largest and most bio-diverse countries, Indiäs approach to environmental policy will be very significant in tackling global environmental challenges. This book explores the transformations that have taken place in the making of environmental policy in India since the economic liberalization of the 1990s. It investigates if there has been a slow shift from top-down planning to increasingly bottom up and participatory policy processes, examining the successes and failures of recent environmental policies.