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Discuss the role of environmental movements in shaping the environmental governance in India.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements

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Maria Carmen Lemos and Arun Agrawal (2006) define environmental governance as the regulatory processes, mechanisms and organisations through which political actors influence environmental actions and outcomes. Indian movements are often dismissed as "empty-stomach" livelihood agitations. Yet they reshaped this architecture: who decides, by what procedure, and in which forum.

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  • Livelihood as the Governance Question
  • Channels of Influence
  • The judicial route
  • Knowledge and advocacy
  • Limits and Recentralisation
  • Conclusion
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