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100			_aSharma, Manik and Rao, G. Durga _947985
245			_aEnvironmental governance at crossroads: Civil society’s fight against industrial pollution in Kathua industrial area, Jammu and Kashmir
260			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
300			_a69(4), Dec, 2023: p.845-860
520			_aAs a key stakeholder within the domain of environmental governance, the civil society influences the actions and outcomes of regulatory processes, mechanisms and organisations in addition to state, market and communities. The research article attempts to understand the influence the civil society exerts in addressing the environmental concerns of three village panchayats of Kathua district, Jammu and Kashmir, by studying the case of industrial pollution caused by Kathua Industrial Area. Issues like severity and impact of pollution on affected population, awareness, participation and role of the civil society and the ways in which the affected population negotiate with the problem of industrial pollution are analysed. It is found that the civil society is unable to exert bottom-up pressure in influencing the policy actions and outcomes in the study area. The reasons behind such inability and the measures required to make civil society a reckoning force in environmental governance are also discussed in the article. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00195561231196180
650			_aEnvironmental governance, Civil society, Industrial pollution, Kathua industrial area, Jammu and Kashmir, Pollution _947986
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
906			_aENVIRONMENT
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