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Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal, by Gitanjali Nain Gill Routledge, 2017, 238 pp, £110 hb, ISBN 9781138921108

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2017

Michael Hantke-Domas
Michael Hantke-Domas*
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Chief Justice, Third Environment Court, Valdivia (Chile)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 557 - 560
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References

1 United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency, ‘Environmental Justice’, available at: https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice.

2 See also Gill, G.N., ‘Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal and Expert Members’ (2016) 5(1) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 175–205 Google Scholar.

3 National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, Act No. 19 of 2010, Parliament of India (NGT Act).

4 NGT Act, s. 2(m): ‘substantial question relating to environment’.

5 Original Application No. 21 of 2014, Various Orders, National Green Tribunal, Principal Bench, available at: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in.

6 Mendoza, Beatriz Silvia y otros v. Estado Nacional y otros s/ daños y perjuicios, Judgment, 8 July 2008, Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Argentina, M.1569.XL, available at: https://goo.gl/ff1uQT (in Spanish).

7 Gustavo Moya Ángel y Otros v. Empresa de Energía de Bogotá y Otros, Judgment, 28 Mar. 2014, State Council of Colombia, AP-25000-23-27-000-2001-90479-01, available at: https://goo.gl/EFGKTo (in Spanish).

8 Urgenda Foundation v. Government of the Netherlands (Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment), Judgment, 25 June 2015, The Hague District Court, Chamber for Commercial Affairs, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2015:7196, C/09/456689/HAZA131396, available at: https://elaw.org/nl.urgenda.15. See also van Zeben, J., ‘Establishing a Governmental Duty of Care for Climate Change Mitigation: Will Urgenda Turn the Tide?’ (2015) 4(2) Transnational Environmental Law, pp. 339–357 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and J. Peel & H.M. Osofsky, ‘A Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?’ (2018) Transnational Environmental Law (forthcoming).

9 Ashgar Leghari v. The Federation of Pakistan, Climate Change Orders of 4 and 14 Sept. 2015, Lahore High Court Green Bench, W.P. No. 25501/2015, available at: https://elaw.org/pk_Leghari. See also J. Peel & H.M. Osofsky, ‘A Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?’ (2018) Transnational Environmental Law (forthcoming).

10 Suddaby, R. & Viale, T., ‘Professionals and Field-Level Change: Institutional Work and the Professional Project’ (2011) 59(4) Current Sociology, pp. 423–442 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 DDA v. Rajendra Singh, AIR 2010 SC 2516. This involved a dispute regarding the construction of the Commonwealth Games Village in 2010 on a legally protected floodplain of the Yamuna River.

12 Pring, G. & Pring, C., Environmental Courts and Tribunals: A Guide for Policy Makers (United Nations Environment Programme, 2016), pp. 10, 50 Google Scholar.