Forum for Environment Legal Policy Research (FELPR)
Research and Analysis of Policies and Law related to environmental governance In Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) :: Contributing towards making better laws in IHR :: Striving towards making environmental governance in IHR more transparent, inclusive and accountable.
RESEARCH
Objective, Independent, High quality, Peer reviewed & incisive environmental legal policy research in IHR.
COMMUNICATE
Communicate the output of research in easily understandable language
DISSEMINATE
Disseminate the research output to all stakeholders.
ENGAGE
Engage with law makers, government and their agencies towards making better, evidence led and need based laws.
EMPOWER
Empower communities at the grassroots level as legal knowledge partners.
COLLABORATE
Collaborate to create more resources to make better laws and policies..
Let us answer a few questions
Do these questions haunt, trouble or intrigue you? If yes we need your support and engagement with us.
Are we pursuing development which is in sync with the fragility of IHR’s ecology due to its complex topography, climatology, tectonic activities and vulnerabilities and is our development mindful of the predicted climate reality in the IHR states and UTs?
The Indian Himalayan region
Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), one of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots, supports 50 million people living in the region and constitutes about 16.2% of India’s total geographical area
What does FELPR do?
FELPR (Forum for Environment Legal Policy Research) aims to create a safe space for informed dialogue, knowledge sharing, interactive participative learning, exchange of ideas, for law makers, executive i.e. government and its agencies, legal practitioners, environmental activists, academicians, students and anyone from citizenry who wishes to engage constructively and meaningfully with the system of governance so that together we can ensure transparent, accountable, sustainable, inclusive, climate and disaster resilient development. FELPR is a platform for inclusive, informed policy debates and also a resource of credible and relevant policy research output for capacity building for policy debates.
Featured Work
- Dialogue of the Deaf
The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), comprising of 11 Indian states and two union territories, is ironically struggling for its very survival despite the region’s well acknowledged ecological, strategic and economic importance to the country. This is… Read More »Dialogue of the Deaf - A powerful judicial remedy for waste managementEDITORIAL Published in The HIndu on April 30, 2025 India is the biggest plastic polluter in the world, according to a new study published in Nature, releasing 9.3 million tonnes (Mt) annually. This is equivalent to… Read More »A powerful judicial remedy for waste management
- Could we make our waste management system work? A case study from Himachal Pradesh offers a reality checkWe need active participation, cooperation and support of the people, without which the system of waste management cannot function efficiently Published on:Â 11 Apr 2025, Down to Earth The first step in solving any problem is recognising… Read More »Could we make our waste management system work? A case study from Himachal Pradesh offers a reality check
Let’s work together in your next IHR project
We welcome collaboration with government & non-government organisations, multilateral agencies, intergovernmental organisations, think tanks, institutions of academic excellence, NGOs, CSOs or any other organisation to help create more legal policy research tools for making better laws and policies for the IHR.