Legislation and the Practices of Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development in Pakistan: A Post 18th Amendment Assessment

Abstract

The rapid industrial technological advancement has created ecological challenges for human beings. The development concept used in a limited perspective with economic growth in practice but it is an incomplete conception without environmental sustainability for governance. The process requires legislation, and practices through environmental governance to manage the issues. The environment-related concerns of Climate change, pollution, and waste have destructive impacts on all species of this planet. The UN has emphasized on resolving the ecological issues for sustainable development. In Pakistan context, environmental governance for sustainable development remained distracted for many decades. The present research article aims to focus on legislation and practices of the environmental governance assessment in Pakistan after the 18th Amendment for sustainable development. It is find out that the provinces have not taken serious steps to deal with the environmental concerns through governance process for sustaining the development after the 18th Amendment. The article is exclusive with significance in the manner that it has assessed the pre and post 18th Amendment environmental governance performance in Pakistan for a sustainable development and recommended some suggestions on the basis of the findings for the implementation and foster the process.