Legal Regulation of Hazardous Substances

by Furqan Ahmad

ISBN: 9789351300144
View Ebook
Imprint : DAYA
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 13995.00
Biblio : xiii+412p., tabls., appendices, ind., 23 cm

About The Book

Environmentally sound management of hazardous substances is a key challenge before policy makers, regulators, implementers, industry workers, and the affected people. The toxic pollution unleashed in Bhopal, Bichri, Patencheru, Kanpur, and many more such toxic hotspots in India led to the strengthening of legal regime for the “Regulation of Environmental Pollution Caused by Hazardous Substances in India”. This volume elaborates upon the concept, causes and consequences of hazardous substances; a

Table of Contents

Contents Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Hazardous Substance: Concept, Causes and Consequences; Nature and Concept of Hazardous Substance, General, Conceptual Analysis; Concept at International Level, Concept in India, Concept in Foreign Countries, Hazardous Material, Classification, Definition of Hazardous Wastes, Nature of Hazard and Taxicity, Formation and Consequences of Hazardous Substances, Standard Criteria in Measuring the Toxic Substances, Hazardous Process; Chapter 3: Control of Ha