Environmental Policy in India |
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| Authors: | Michael R Reich B Bowonder |
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| Institution: | Michael R. Reich;is Associate Professor of International Health and Director of the Takemi Program in International Health, both at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research interests are in the political economy of public health. His book, Toxic Politics: Responding to Chemical Disasters (Cornell), won the Policy Studies Organization Award for the Outstanding Policy Studies Book of 1991. B. Bowonder;is the BEL Professor on Technology Management, and the Director of the Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology, at the Administrative Staff College of India, at Hyderabad. He has written extensively on the management of risk, technology, and environmental change. |
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| Abstract: | This article reviews the significant changes India has achieved in environmental policy in the pool 10 years, especially in terms of regulatory procedures and organizational structure. Despite these changes, however, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate, largely because a wide gap persists between the intent of policy and the actual achievement and because major problems have eluded serious attention. The paper analyzes major problems in the implementation of Indian environmental policy, with particular attention to policy design, policy analysis, and standard setting. Political problems are identified that underlie difficulties in policy formulation and implemetation, and strategies to improve implemetation are proposed. |
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