Environmental Pollution and Health Concerns in India: Regulatory Measures and Public Activism

Year : 2025 | Volume : 14 | Issue : 03 | Page : 12 17
    By

    Aabil Husain,

  • Maneesh Yadav,

  1. P.hd, Research Scholar, College of Law & Legal Studies, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
  2. Professor, College of Law & Legal Studies, Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Environmental pollution affects human health significantly and is a major global problem. This chapter goes into great length on the various types of environmental pollution that affect the air, water, and soil, along with their primary causes. By analyzing the many health problems associated with each type of pollution, it draws attention to the complex link that exists between pollutants and human health. Reproductive issues, cancer, neurological problems, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory ailments are some of the main health effects linked to environmental pollution. The surroundings and improvement are twin issues of high national importance while the diverse components approach of surroundings are intimately inter-related, the improvement system is alongside a long historical multidimensional system and is reflected in human interplay with the environment causing most of the environmental issues and pollutants is one in all of them. Environmental pollution is the result of misuse and overuse of sources due to loss of training, consciousness, and wrong control. The growing population, industrialization, urbanization reason environmental pollution with an ultimate concerning human health and hygiene’s, sanitation, and ecological imbalances. This bankruptcy uses in-intensity case research, including the Bhopal fuel disaster and the Flint water disaster, to highlight the detrimental influences of pollutants and the want for stringent regulatory measures. The origins of environmental pollutants are soil, water, and air in addition to their effect on human fitness are the main factors of interest.

Keywords: Environment pollution, public health, sustainable environmental management, health effects, human health

[This article belongs to Research & Reviews : Journal of Ecology ]

How to cite this article:
Aabil Husain, Maneesh Yadav. Environmental Pollution and Health Concerns in India: Regulatory Measures and Public Activism. Research & Reviews : Journal of Ecology. 2025; 14(03):12-17.
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Aabil Husain, Maneesh Yadav. Environmental Pollution and Health Concerns in India: Regulatory Measures and Public Activism. Research & Reviews : Journal of Ecology. 2025; 14(03):12-17. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/rrjoe/article=2025/view=235443


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Volume 14
Issue 03
Received 17/07/2025
Accepted 21/08/2025
Published 22/08/2025
Publication Time 36 Days
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