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GREEN GOVERNANCE- INTRODUCTION
Green governance is a relatively new and emerging field which is consistently attracting more attention from scholars. The governments across the globe are increasingly becoming keener to formulate policies with regards to green governance and take green governance more seriously than it was taken before. As green governance is a relatively new concept which is also extremely multidisciplinary in nature, not much research is conducted on the topic which makes it difficult to further develop this concept and incorporate this concept in policy making and decision making.
There are three major schools of thought which have attempted to define green governance. The first school of thought defines green governance as management. It defines “green governance as the government’s visionary, strategic and participatory sustainable management of natural resources.” The second school of thought defines and equates green governance with a governance structure. The third school of thought defines green governance as a part and parcel of the doctrine of sustainable development; or developing in the present in such a manner that the needs of the future are not compromised upon.
