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It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.</p><p>Articles published in Journal of Asian and African Social Science and Humanities are published under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license</a>, which permits others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work as long as they credit you for the original creation.</p><p> </p> https://aarcentre.com/ojs3/index.php/jaash/article/view/470 <p class="isSelectedEnd">Bangladesh exemplifies a central paradox of sustainable development: how to maintain rapid economic and social progress without undermining the ecological systems upon which development depends. This paper critically examines Bangladesh's environmental governance architecture, the major barriers to its effective implementation, and opportunities for achieving a just green transition. It adopts a qualitative, desk-based methodology combining doctrinal legal analysis with critical examination of national policies and plans, international commitments, judicial decisions, and institutional reports.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">The analysis demonstrates that Bangladesh has an extensive environmental legal and policy framework, including constitutional obligations, pollution-control legislation, environmental courts, climate strategies, and long-term delta planning. However, its implementation remains constrained by fragmented institutional authority, inconsistent enforcement, inadequate monitoring capacity, weaknesses in environmental assessment procedures, limited local government capacity, and continuing incentives for environmentally harmful investments.</p> <p class="isSelectedEnd">Climate vulnerability further intensifies these governance challenges, disproportionately affecting low-income and climate-vulnerable communities. Nevertheless, significant opportunities exist for a just green transition through renewable energy, resource-efficient industries, circular production systems, nature-based adaptation, sustainable agriculture, green finance, and digitally enabled environmental accountability.</p> <p>The paper proposes a reform agenda centred on enforceable environmental standards, strategic environmental assessment, open environmental data, stronger institutional coordination, enhanced local capacity, effective application of the polluter-pays principle, and meaningful public participation. Sustainable development in Bangladesh will become credible only when environmental protection becomes a binding condition of development decision-making rather than a remedial response after environmental damage has occurred.</p> Sayed Abdullah Bari Mumtahina Mahmud Samsun nahar Sema Maruf Ahmed Copyright (c) 2026 sayed Abdullah Bari, Muntahina Mahamud, Samsunnahar Sema; Maruf Ahmed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-10-08 2026-10-08 12 1 1 20 10.55327/jaash.v12i1.470 https://aarcentre.com/ojs3/index.php/jaash/article/view/463 <p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming legal systems across the world by improving judicial efficiency, enhancing case management, supporting legal research, and facilitating access to justice. Many jurisdictions have introduced AI-assisted technologies to reduce case backlogs, improve administrative functions, and increase the efficiency of court services. While AI has the potential to strengthen judicial administration, its integration into the justice system also raises significant legal, ethical, and constitutional concerns relating to transparency, accountability, algorithmic bias, data protection, and judicial independence. In Bangladesh, the judiciary has made considerable progress in digitalizing court services through initiatives such as virtual courts, e-filing, and digital case management systems. However, the application of AI in judicial administration remains at a preliminary stage, and the country currently lacks a comprehensive legal framework governing the responsible use of AI within the justice sector. This regulatory gap creates uncertainty regarding the protection of fundamental rights, due process, and judicial accountability.</p> <p>This article critically examines the prospects and challenges of integrating Artificial Intelligence into the administration of justice in Bangladesh. It analyzes the existing constitutional and legal framework, evaluates international developments concerning AI governance, and explores the legal and institutional reforms necessary to ensure that AI serves as a tool to support, rather than replace, judicial decision-making. The article argues that a transparent, accountable, and human-centred regulatory framework is essential for promoting innovation while preserving judicial independence, the rule of law, and public confidence in the justice system.</p> Rajia Sultana Sunjida Islam Copyright (c) 2026 Rajia Sultana , Sunjida Islam http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-10-08 2026-10-08 12 1 21 37 10.55327/jaash.v12i1.463 https://aarcentre.com/ojs3/index.php/jaash/article/view/467 <p>Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) has gained a greater significance in enhancing access to justice, lessening procedural burdens, and offering adaptable dispute solving mechanisms in Bangladesh. This paper will look at the effects of accessibility on the perceived effectiveness of ADR and the confidence of the people, as well as investigate whether perceived effectiveness moderates the relationship between access and confidence. The survey design was a cross-sectional survey and 510 valid responses have been analysed by partial least squares structural equation modelling. The perceived effectiveness and accessibility, as well as the public confidence were assessed as reflective constructs with 21 items rated on a five-point Likert scale. The measurement model exhibited a good indicator of reliability, internal consistency, convergent and discriminant validities. The findings of structural models revealed that the accessibility positively but significantly influenced perceived efficacy and the confidence of the population. Public confidence was also greatly influenced positively by perceived effectiveness. Indirect mediation was shown to be true as the effect of accessibility on the public confidence based on perceived effectiveness was significant. The model (explained 24.0% and 40.1% of the variance in the perceived effectiveness and public confidence, respectively) and predictive assessment demonstrated the positive out-of-sample relevance. The results indicate that social trust in ADR is not solely on the availability but on the perceived effectiveness, fairness, practicality and credibility of accessible mechanisms in modern practice.</p> Mumtahina Mahmud Sayed Abdullah Bari Samsun nahar Sema Maruf Ahmed Copyright (c) 2026 Muntahina Mahamud, sayed Abdullah bari Rafi, Samsunnahar Sema, Maruf Ahmed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2026-10-08 2026-10-08 12 1 38 74 10.55327/jaash.v12i1.467