ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN AN ERA OF LEGAL REALISM UNDERSTANDING THE TRAJECTORIES FROM JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES
Abstract
Environmental sustainability Goals are emerging as a juscogens norm binding all the nations around the world. There exists robust relation between environmental sustainability and Economic growth of the Nation. The research paper discourses the cutting-edge developments of climate change litigation in India, bringing to prominence the flukes of the Indian legal system that gives it the legitimacy and authority to incorporate new ideas into the Nation’s legal framework as it is highly related to Nation’s economic development. The concept of Rule of Law in modern era includes Environmental Justice as well because it acts as a precondition to attain sustainable development. Especially the neoliberalism in contemporary era hinders the evolution of norms around environmental sustainability and there exists tensions in policy making by the state that requires judicial adjudication. Amidst these tensions how far the judiciary in India acts as a protector to balance Environmental protection, Climate change and sustainable developmental goals is the focus of this article. Moreover, the research paper examines, how far the climate change governance assumes both international as well as national concern for future and the conceptualistic approach that highlights recent advancements in the nation’s climate change Environmental jurisprudence. The main theme of the work concentrates on two different philosophical approach i.e, Legal formalism and Legal Realism and explores the phenomenal discourse between a dynamic legal system that applies international environmental principles domestically and the recent obstacles to Environmental sustainability especially the climate litigation by highlighting a growing and pervasive trend towards the incorporation of these principles of global international law into domestic law. To put it in modest, whether pragmatic agency decision making is more effective than judicial textualism? The research methodology adopted is Descriptive, analytical, philosophical and explorative as well.
Keyword : Formalism and Legal Realism – Environmental Sustainability - Climate Change – Economic Growth - Role of Indian Judiciary – Balancing approach.
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