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Environmental over enthusiasm

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  • Chetan Pandit

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India needs large dams for water storage, hydropower and flood control. It also needs long-distance inter-basin water transfers. However, India has a complex and strict environmental regulatory system which ignores a developing economy's needs and peoples' aspirations and is often impractical. This is used by activists to thwart infrastructure building, and, when faced with development slowdown, the government tries to thwart the laws they themselves have made. India's food, water and energy security, economic, and poverty-alleviation plans are in jeopardy unless environmental regulators realize that the regulations are being misused and that environmental over-enthusiasm is benefiting neither development nor the environment.

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  • Chetan Pandit, 2014. "Environmental over enthusiasm," International Journal of Water Resources Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 110-120, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cijwxx:v:30:y:2014:i:1:p:110-120
    DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2013.871480
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    1. M. Dinesh Kumar, 2016. "Distressed Elephants: Policy Initiatives for Sustainable Groundwater Management in India," IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, , vol. 5(1), pages 51-62, January.

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