ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

Ecological issues vs. Indian economy (why sink when you could float"…..)

  • Author:
  • Ruchi Sharma
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 80 to 87

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, K.L.S.D. College, Ludhiana, India

Online published on 3 June, 2015.

Abstract

Some decades back, majority of scholars, educationists and policy makers thought about the rapid eco progress at any cost. Nature was almost ignored but the movement they came to realize the consequences of such a developmental model, they got panicky. without protecting the nature no development is going to be permanent in nature. In this context the paper provides an understanding of various ecological issues effecting Indian economy moreover the whole economic pendulum of world. Human population has risen from 2 billion to 6 billion in just more than one century. The Earth's average surface temperature has increased by 0.74 c b/w 1906 to 2005 and 0.34c b/w 2005 to 2014. The earth's surface seriously heated resulted in damage to agriculture, forestry and fishery. There are so many ecological problems in Indian like D-forestation, soil erosion, Global warming, natural disasters like flood, earthquakes, drought etc. These cause negative impacts in the path of economic progress. This paper analyses the evidences which shows the harmful consequences of natural environmental imbalance as a result of human activity especially in case of India. This paper throws light on the major environmental issues in India, their causes effects and solution. In support of the betterment of Indian economy in terms of environmental parameters, 5 focus policy, structure have been discussed and it is Environment protection Act, disaster Management, green marketing, sustainable development and eco friendly industry.

Keywords

Empirical evidences disaster management, green marketing eco friendly industry, ecological issues