CONTENT: Foreword by His Excellency Shri R.L. Bhatia,Governor of Kerala 5 Introduction 7 Acknowledgements15 List of Contributors17 1. Ecology and Environment: Theoretical Orientations by -Jasleen Kewlani 19 2. Impact of Development and Population on Environment by -M.S. Gill 35 3. Global Environment Risk : A Threat to Sustainability (A Transnational-Sociological Analysis) by -Jasleen Kewlani 50 4. Sustainable Society : Inhibitions and Facilitations by -M.S. Gill 68 5. Problems of Sustainability in Third World Countries -M.S. Gill80 6. Development of Science and Technology : Impacts on Human Security and Survival (A Sociological Analysis) by -Jasleen Kewlani 95 7. Economic Policy Making and Environmental Consequences by -Nishant Sharma and Jasleen Kewlani 115 8. Appraising a Local Environmental Movement in India : Some Major Determinants of Participation by -Deba Prashad Chatterjee 140 14 Environmental Conscience: Socio-Legal and Judicial Paradigm 9. Urban Environment and its Governance by -Jasleen Kewlani and M.S. Gill 170 10. Environmental Degeneration with Focused Reference to Deforestation and its Impact on Developmental Sustainability by -Jasleen Kewlani 189 Environment Management : A Study in Environmental Awareness by -M.S. Gill and Navdeep Kaur 204 12. Environmental Law and the Indian Judiciary : A Mechanism of Facilitations and Inhibitions (A Socio-Legal Analysis) by -Jasleen Kewlani and Nishant Sharma 216 13. Environmental Protection Vis-a-Vis Judicial Activism by -Prashish Kanwar and Chandan Singla 243 14. Role of Judiciary in Environmental Activism by -Rajan Bansal and Karan Kalra 256 15. Humanitarian Faces and Legal Hues of Aura by -Gigimon V.S. 269 Index278