Publications

A. Research Publications (Environmental Law/Policy)

1. The Green Hour Volume 3 Issue I | Winter Session 2024 and Budget Session 2025 (2025) Link
2. The Green Hour Vol. 2 Issue II | Monsoon Session 2024 (2025) Link
3. Chapter 40- Penalties and Compensation in ‘The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (2024) Link
4. The Green Hour Vol. 2 Issue I | Winter Session 2023 & Interim Budget Session 2024 (2024) Link
5. Watered Down Law | State of India’s Environment 2024- Down to Earth Annual Publication (2024) Download PDF
6. The Green Hour Vol. 1 Issue III | The Monsoon Session 2023 (2023) Link
7. The Green Hour (Vol. 1, Issue II): A report on Parliamentary proceedings on environmental matters in the Budget Session 2023 (2023) Link
8. Report of the High-Level Working Group on the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 (2023) Link
9. Analysis of Proposed Amendments to the Environmental Laws in Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2022 (2023) Link
10. The Green Hour (Vol. 1, Issue I): A report on Parliamentary proceedings on environmental matters in the Winter Session 2022 (2023) Link
11. (De)Regulating the Environment? An Analysis of Regulatory Changes Introduced during COVID-19 in India (2022) Link
12. Comments on the Draft Animal Birth Control Rules, 2022: Submissions to Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (2022) Link
13. Legal issues pertaining to insertion of proviso under Section 43(2) of Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2022: Discussion Paper (2022) Link
14. Comments On the Proposed Amendments to The Indian Forest Act, 1927 (2022) Link
15. Comments on the Proposed Decriminalization of Four Key Environmental Legislation, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (2022) Link
16. Environmental Laws: Application and efficacy in business & human rights, UNDP, and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (2022) Link
17. Comments to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2021 (2022) Link
18. Comments to the Joint Committee of Parliament on The Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 (2022) Link
19. Comments on the Proposed Amendments to Forest Conservation Act, 1980 to Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (2021) Link
20. Forestation on Private Land in Karnataka, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (2021) Link
21. Safeguarding Wildlife Beyond Protected Areas in India: A Review of Laws, Policies and Other Conservation Tools, RGNUL Student Research Review (2021) Link
22. ‘Courting the Environment: Implementation of Environmental Judgments (2021) Link
23. Two reviews of Draft EIA Notification 2020 were submitted to the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (2020) Link1 (VENHF), Link 2 (VCLP)
24. The Management of Environment Relief Fund (2020) Link
25. Environmental Clearances and Monitoring in India: Report Card for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (2017) Link
26. Cleaning Delhi’s Air: Implementation Action Plan, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy (2017) Link
27. Review of Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, 2016 to Ministry of Home Affairs (2016) Link
28. Submission on Amendment of the Manufacture, Storage, and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 and the Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Response) Rules, 1996 to Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (2016) Link
29. Submission to Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change on Draft Notification for declaration of Eco-Sensitive Zone around Kaimoor Wildlife Sanctuary (2015) Link
30. Submission to Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change on Draft Notification on Emission Standards for Coal Based Thermal Power Plants (2015) Link

B. Research Publications (Wildlife & Forests)

1. Co-Author- Wildlife Inventory and Proposal for Sloth Bear Conservation Reserve in Marihan-Sukrit-Chunar Landscape of Mirzapur Forest Division, Uttar Pradesh (2019) Link
2. Co-Author Sloth Bears of Mirzapur- Report on Sloth Bear Habitats, Assessment of Human-Bear Conflict, and Identification of Suitable Corridors for Wildlife Conservation in District Mirzapur of Uttar Pradesh (2017) Link
3. L. Goparaju et.al., Temporal dynamics of above-ground biomass of Kaimoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India: conjunctive use of field and Landsat data (2021). Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy Link
4. L. Goparaju, F. Ahmad, D. Sinha, Quantification and Conservation Status of Forests Fragments of Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests—A Geospatial Analysis Running Head: Tropical Dry Deciduous Forests. Contemporary Problems of Ecology. 12, 629–641 (2019), doi:10.1134/s1995425519060131. Link
5. L. Goparaju, F. Ahmad, D. Sinha, Spatial Analysis of Wildlife Habitat around Madihan forests of Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh in India, using Geospatial Technology. Folia Forestalia Polonica. 60, 73–79 (2018), doi:10.2478/ffp-2018-0007. Link
6. L. N. Goparaju, F. Ahmad, D. Sinha, Wildlife habitat suitability analysis around Madihan forest, Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh, India: A Geospatial approach. Eurasian Journal of Forest Science. 5, 13–28 (2017), doi:10.31195/ejejfs.327362. Link
7. L. Goparaju, D. Sinha, Forest cover change analysis of dry tropical forests of Vindhyan highlands in Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh (2017). Link

C. Short Articles/ Op-Eds in News & Magazines

1. Industry need not celebrate yet. SC has not made retrospective environmental clearance legal | The Indian Express | 20th November 2025
2. ‘Judgement on retrospective environmental clearances restores legal principles’ | DownToEarth | 06 June 2025
3. Barring Retrospective Green Clearances is a Crucial Win for Environmental Law | The Quint | 24 May 2025
4. हमारी इकोनॉमी की रफ्तार [आर कहीं ब्रेक ना लगा दे बढ़ता तापमान! (कवर स्टोरी) | दैनिक भास्कर | 12 May 2024
5. Right Against Climate Change and the Need to Go Beyond ‘Greenwashing’ | NDTV | 11 April 2024
6. रीछ | Pluto- Kid’s Magazine (February-March ’24 Issue) | March 2024
7. सिर्फ पेड़ों की संख्या बढ़ाने से पूरा नहीं होगा वन विकास का सपना | Patrika | 16 March 2024
8. India’s green credit rules might end up creating green deserts | The Sunday Times of India | 03 March 2024
9. Forest bill poses a threat to hard-earned safeguards | Hindustan Times | 02 August 2023
10. Understanding the Implications of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill, 2023 on ‘Unclassed Forests’ in Northeast India and Beyond | Vidhi Blogs | 01 August 2023
11. A Brief Commentary on The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 | Vidhi Blogs | 31 March 2023
12. What the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill Is Trying to Fix | The Quint | 13 December 2022
13. Remembering Vimal Bhai, a True Gandhian Who Gave Direction to India’s Environment Struggle | The Wire | 19 August 2022
14. Remembering Vimal Bhai: The environmental activist, social justice warrior and an inspiration | Down To Earth | 18 August 2022
15. एक्स्ट्रीम वेदर: दुनिया के लिए अगला संकट (Cover Story) | Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper-Print Edition, 31 July 2022
16. How the Karnataka High Court missed the forests for the trees | Bar & Bench, 26 September 2021
17. आफ़त क्यों बन रही है बारिश? (Cover Story) | Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper-Print Edition, 01 August 2021
18.  क्यों जल रहे हैं हमारे जंगल? (Cover Story) | Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper-Print Edition, 25 April 2021
19. Bare Truth: Why We Need to Save Our Sloth Bears | Roundglass Sustain, April, 2021
20. क्यों बिगड़ रहा है मौसम का मिज़ाज? (Cover Story) | Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper-Print Edition, 17 January 2021
21. Covid proved that India needs a dedicated Wildlife Protection Authority | The Print, 21 July 2020
22. The Success Story of Kaziranga’s Tigers – Unpacking the Dichotomy | Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Blogs, 02 April 2020
23. Bearing Up Well, Conserving the last wilderness of Mirzapur as a habitat of the sloth bear | Saevus magazine, March 2020
24. Decoding the Economics of Ganga Waterway (National Waterways-1) | SANDRP, 08 February 2019
25. Odd-Even Scheme Looks Like a Farce When Every Other Policy Is Encouraging Cars | CNN News 18, 09 January 2018
26. Sloth Bears of Mirzapur: A Study from the Vindhyan Landscape of Eastern Uttar Pradesh | Conservation India, 05 December 2017
27. Understanding the Indian Sloth Bear | Protected Area Update Vol XXIII, No. 4, August 2017
28. The need to reform environment clearance process | India Together, 24 May 2017
29. To discover the ‘rights of a river’, first think like a river | The Ecologist, 22 May 2017
30. Skeletal Existence | Down to Earth, 16 February 2017
31. Impacts of Ganga Waterways Plan on its ecology and the people | SANDRP, 11 August 2016
32. Is India’s Environmental Governance Going Through Its Biggest Crisis Ever? | The Wire, 29 June 2016
33. The Geospatial Information Bill will deal a body blow to environmental democracy in India | Scroll, 03 June, 2016
34. Is Amravati really a ‘capital’ choice? | India Together, 06 October 2015
35. Coal-based power plants: What is the government missing? India Together, 02 July 2015
36. State must ensure water accessibility to all: Bombay HC | SANDRP, 09 January 2015
37. Kanhar Project in UP: Another unwanted dam | SANDRP, 29 December 2014
38. Power play at a Thermal Power Plant in Mirzapur | EJOLT, 21 August 2014
39. Reviving the Ganga, at the cost of its ecology! India Together, 09 August 2014
40. Water for Power: Irrigation Dam to be Used for Thermal Power- Drinking Water Supply of BHU, Agriculture, and Existence of Waterfalls at Risk | SANDRP, 20 March 2014