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A Chronicle of Law Implementation in Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Kaziranga National Park in Assam (North-East India)
- Source :
- South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud, 2018, ⟨10.4000/samaj.4422⟩, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Vol 17 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- OpenEdition, 2018.
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Abstract
- This text is based on an analysis of conflicts concerning Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Famous for the one-horned rhinoceros, this Park has become a political arena where tension has been mounting since its 2007 inclusion in a project aimed at protecting tigers. The physical injury and damage caused by wildlife to people and their property (land, animals, houses), the eviction of populations from within the Park’s perimeter, and poaching have led to conflicts that combine ecological, social, political, cultural and symbolic features, and which are being brought more and more often before the law courts. The aim of this paper is to show how these features are utilized by the different protagonists and how, since 2006, new decision-making bodies with extensive powers, environmental legislation, and nature-protection or population-defense organizations have contributed to defining the forms these conflicts have taken. Through the lens of environmental law in the making, it highlights some of the workings of India’s nature protection policy. The Kaziranga example provides an overview of the problems key measures or laws have created in the field of environmental protection, whether it is a question of them being applied too rigidly—as is the case of the Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972—, of them being bent—this is the case of Public Interest Litigations the original purpose of which has completely changed—, or of them not being applied at all—which is the case of the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Assam.
- Subjects :
- [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
0507 social and economic geography
Wildlife
Legislation
050701 cultural studies
Public interest
lcsh:Social Sciences
Public Interest Litigation
Politics
[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law
Political science
environmental law
0601 history and archaeology
rhinoceros
Assam
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
060101 anthropology
Eviction
National park
05 social sciences
General Social Sciences
Poaching
Kaziranga National Park
06 humanities and the arts
[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
15. Life on land
16. Peace & justice
[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
lcsh:H
Forest Rights Act 2006
Tiger Project
Environmental law
13. Climate action
[SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies
Law
Wildlife (protection) Act 1972
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19606060
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ea89b696f255c9eeb3dd63ba2c7d4657