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 INDEX
I INTRODUCTION

2 WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTALISM

3 SOME FAMOUS ENIRONMENTALIST

5 AWARDS

7 GOVERNMENT POLICIES

8 CONCLUSION

9 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 INTRODUCTION
The Environment is our basic life support
system and is composed of living beings,
physical surroundings, and climatic
conditions. It is derived from a French word,
“Environner”, which means “to surround”.
The term environment includes all biotic and
abiotic entities around us. Biotic refers to the
world of living organisms, whereas Abiotic
refers to the world of non-living elements.
The Environment provides us with the
essential elements – air, water, food, and
land which are essential for life to flourish on
the Earth.
 WHAT IS ENVIRNMENTALISM
Environmentalism or environmental rights is
a broad philosophy, ideology, and social
movement regarding concerns for
environmental protection and improvement
of the health of the environment, particularly
as the measure for this health seeks to
incorporate the impact of changes to the
environment on humans, animals, plants .
 SOME FAMOUS
ENVIRONMENTALIST

 Sunder Lal Bahuguna:

Sunderlal Bahuguna Ji (9 January 1927 – 21

May 2021) was an

Indian environmentalist and Chipko
movement leader. The idea of the Chipko
movement was suggested by his wife and him.
He fought for the preservation of forests in
the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko
movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded
the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to
early 2004. He was one of the early
environmentalists of India, and later he and
others associated with the Chipko movement and
started taking up wider environmental issues,
such as being opposed to large dams.
 MS Swaminathan
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7
August 1925) is an Indian agronomist, agricultural
scientist, plant geneticist, administrator
and humanitarian. Swaminathan is a global leader
of the green revolution. He has been called the
main architect of the green revolution in India for
his leadership and role in introducing and further
developing high-yielding varieties of wheat and
rice. Swaminathan's collaborative scientific efforts
with Norman Borlaug, spearheading a mass
movement with farmers and other scientists and
backed by public policies, saved India and
Pakistan from certain famine-like conditions in the
1960s. His leadership as Director General of
the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in
the Philippines was instrumental in his being
awarded the first World Food Prize in 1987,
recognized as the Nobel or the highest honours in
 the field of agriculture. United Nations
Environment Programme has called him 'the
Father of Economic Ecology'.
Swaminathan contributed basic research related to
potato, wheat and rice, in areas such as
cytogenetics, ionizing radiation and
radiosensitivity. He has been a President of
the Pugwash Conferences and the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In 1999,
he was one of three Indians, along
with Gandhi and Tagore, on TIME magazines' list
of the '20 Most Influential Asian People of the 20th
Century', along with Eiji Toyoda, Dalai
Lama and Swaminathan has received numerous
awards and honours, including the Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Award, Ramon Magsaysay Award and
the Albert Einstein World Science Award.
 AWARDS FOR
ENVIRONMENTALISM
1. National Environmental Award (Spain)
2. The National German Sustainability
3. Natural World Book Prize
4. Nordic Council Environment Prize
5. Nuclear-Free Future Award
6. Earth shot Prize
7. Eerik Kumari Award
8. Environmental Media Awards
9. Environmental Music Prize
10. Equator Prize
 GOVERNMENT POLICIES
Environment policies of the Government of India
includes legislations related to environment. In
the Directive Principles of State Policy, Article
48(a) says “the state shall endeavour to protect
and improve the environment and to safeguard
the forests and wildlife of the country”; Article
51-A states that “it shall be the duty of every
citizen of India to protect and improve the
natural environment including forests, lakes,
rivers, and wildlife and to have compassion for
living creatures.”

India is one of the parties of the Convention on

Biological Diversity (CBD) treaty. Prior to the CBD,
India had different laws to govern the
environment. The Indian Wildlife Protection Act
1972 protected biodiversity. It was amended
later multiple times. The 1988 National Forest
Policy had conservation as its fundamental
principle. In addition to these acts, the
government passed the Environment (Protection)
Act 1986 and Foreign Trade (Development and
Regulation) Act 1992 for control of biodiversity.

Notably, the government has passed various

legislations to curb the damage caused to the
environment such as the Environmental
Protection Act, 1986, Forest Conservation Act,
1980, Water Prevention and Control of Pollution
Act, 1974, Biological Diversity Act, 2002, Public
Liability Insurance Act 1889 and National Green
Tribunal Act, 2010.

According to Article 48 (A) of the Indian

Constitution, the state shall try to protect and
improve the environment. It should also
endeavour to safeguard forests and wildlife of
the country.
According to Article 51(A) (g) of the Indian
Constitution, every citizen of India has a
fundamental duty to protect and improve the
natural environment including forest, lakes,
rivers, and wildlife and should have compassion
for living creatures.
 CONCLUSION
As a key environmental agency, EPA needs to
support and maintain a strong research program.
An evolving understanding of the complexity,
magnitude, and inter-relatedness of
environmental problems leads us to conclude
that a new balance of research programs may be
helpful. This report describes a framework for
conducting research in a way that will help
alleviate the problems of the moment while
providing a basis for solving tomorrow's
problems.

In the past, pressing environmental issues have

been addressed primarily through focused
research efforts directed toward solving
particular problems. Although this approach to
environmental research can be effective, has
often been necessary, and will surely continue, it
also has limitations. In order to address the
abundance of established, emerging, and as-yet-
unknown environmental issues, an expanded
understanding of the scientific principles
underlying environmental systems is needed.
Achieving this understanding will require
innovative, interdisciplinary approaches.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine. 1997. Building a Foundation for Sound
Environmental Decisions. Washington.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
WIKIPEDIA
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH BLOG
BRITANNICA
INNFINITY ENVIRONMNENT
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