Overview
- Presents the first comprehensive work on soil law and governance in India
- Provides cutting-edge understanding of the 'soil challenge' in India
- Provides workable ideas to attain goals of sustainable soil management and Land Degradation Neutrality
Part of the book series: International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy (IYSLP)
Part of the book sub series: Regional Perspectives (REGPER)
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About this book
Soil is our biological capital. The soil health is critical for survival of the humans (and other life forms) since almost 95% of our food comes from it. It also has significant potential as a sink for carbon through sequestering. Excessive and inappropriate land use leads to various forms of land degradation that becomes contributing factor for hunger, migration and even wars. There are several multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) including UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) that hold relevance for addressing the global soil problematique. The UNCCD Strategic Framework (2018-2030) has declared desertification/land degradation and drought (DLDD) as “challenges of a global dimension”. As a result, sustainable soil management (SSM) has emerged as an important goal for attaining Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs 2030).
In the backdrop of these globally ordained processes, India appears to be seriously pursuing the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) target within the framework of the UNCCD. As a corollary, India has set an ambitious goal of halting any further land degradation by 2030 and rehabilitate at least 30 million hectares of degraded wasteland, forest land and agricultural land.
This ideational effort by eminent legal scholars, soil scientists and practitioners aim to promote concerted teaching and research in the field of soil law and governance in the University Faculties of Law, National Law Schools, Institutions of Eminence and other legal and scientific bodies. The ‘seeds sown’ in the soil of knowledge through this effort will, hopefully, provide an impetus for more in-depth research concerning soil law and governance in India and beyond.
Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
- Sustainable Soil Management
- Soil Degradation Neutrality
- Degradation of Land and Soils
- Soil Erosion
- Conservation Bench Terrace
- Watershed Development
- Climate Change
- Dryland
- Desertification
- United Nations Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD)
- Agriculture in India
- Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
- Supreme Court of India
- National Green Tribunal
- Women’s Rights in India
- Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Policy
- Common Property Resources
- Soil Challenge
- Land-soil Interplay
Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Framework
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Front Matter
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Soil Degradation in India
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Front Matter
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Existing Legal Framework
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Front Matter
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Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Soil Law and Governance in India
Editors: Bharat H. Desai
Series Title: International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32360-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32359-1Published: 28 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32362-1Due: 11 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32360-7Published: 27 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2520-1271
Series E-ISSN: 2520-128X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 211
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Environmental Law, Agriculture, Civil Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Ecology, Public International Law