Environmental Protection Guidelines and Its Developmental Impacts: A Study of SAARC Countries

The research is aimed at evaluating environmental protection policies and benefits of its implementation in the context of SAARC countries. It started with various international policy framework and guidelines to improve environment quality. All subsequent analysis has been performed on SAARC countries where the acceptance and ratification of global initiatives were pointed out. The impact of all the policy measures in the quantifiable output of key environmental indicators were assessed. Key indicators were identified from almost all environmental themes guided by UNEP. The outcome of the data has been analysed and continuous improvement has been observed. Some of the SAARC countries were extremely proactive in implementing the global frameworks whereas some took reasonable amount of time due to both internal and external constraints. The research also targeted to obtain the time frame required for legally bound policies to convert to measurable environment indicators with an emphasis on SAARC countries.