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ENVIRONMENTAL
LAW PRINCIPLES
Doctrine of Sustainable
Development
2 imp. Things:
1) Need for socio-economic devt.
2) Need of limitation imposed on the environment’s
capability to cape with present and future generations
Brundtland Report, 1997--- “S.D. --- devt. That meets
the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs ---
S.D. requires meeting the basic needs of all and
extending to all opportunity to satisfy their
aspirations for a better life.”
In Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Co. Ltd. V.
Bombay Enviro-Action Group (2006) 3 SCC 434
--- held --- S.D. --- process where devt. Can be
sustainable over generations.