Environmental Management and Justice System in Bangladesh: Issues and Legal Framework

Abdullah-Al-Monzur Hussain (Faculty of Law, Dhaka International University)
Md Hasnath Kabir Fahim (University of New Haven, United States)
Ramisa Jahan (Chittagong Independent University, Bangladesh)

Lex Publica
Vol. 12 No. 2 (2025)

This paper presents environmental justice in Bangladesh, which is connected with the human development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Environmental justice is essential for human rights, which affects human lives as well as the sustainable development of the country. Environmental justice ensures all people’s enjoyment of human rights, economic development, and health protection; above all, a healthy environment for life. Various environmental issues like global warming, overpopulation, waste disposal, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and deforestation are harmful to human lives. The environmental problems in Bangladesh are climate change, cyclones, floods, drought, earthquakes, riverbank erosion, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, etc.