Environment
Down To EarthConsider the following pairs regarding the Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area (WGESA) notification framework and the bodies/instruments associated with it:
Pairs
- Legal authority for declaring the WGESA — Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
- Gadgil Committee report — recommended a bottom-up, panchayat-level grading of the entire Western Ghats as ecologically sensitive
- Kasturirangan Committee report — recommended a smaller, geographically delineated 'natural landscape' zone for ESA protection, excluding most human-settled areas
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?