ABSTRACT
This chapter argues, on the basis of fieldwork data gathered in India, that the involvement of technical experts at the heart of courtroom decision-making promotes better environmental results (Gill 2016). The importance of experts is recognised because:
. . . experts define the regime of truth; they tell us what the world looks like, identify and quantify relevant variables, provide statistical measurements and risk analyses, and solve the equations that indicate the path towards increasing the aggregate level of well-being . . . Experts define the system.
