Environmental Scenario in India : Successes and Predicaments

ISBN-13: 9780415666558 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Opis

India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc. The consequent growth implications are obvious as far as the numbers like GDP growth rate and Per Capita GDP trend are concerned, but how sustainable the associated development is with respect to resource management and environmental governance?

Spis treści

Introduction, Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty Part 1. Agricultural Sector and Environment  1. Issues and Options to Control Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution, Sacchidananda Mukherjee  2. Economics of Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture in India, Ramachandra Bhatta  3. Impact of the Monsoon Trawling Ban on Marine Fisheries in Tamil Nadu, Ierene Francis Part 2. Manufacturing and Power Sector and Environment  4.  Economics of 'Not' Controlling Pollution, L. Venkatachalam 5. Environmental Costs of Coal-based Thermal Power Generation in India, Shrabani Mukherjee 6. Environmental Cost of Using Top-soil for Brick Making, Vinish Kathuria and R. Balasubramanian 7. Environmental Impacts (Costs) of Hydropower Generation in India, Bimlesh Kumar and Achanta Ramakrishna Rao  Part 3. Service Sector and the Environment  8. Growing Environmental Costs of Urban Water Supplies, M. Dinesh Kumar  9. Municipal Solid Waste Management in India, Prasenjit Sarkhel  10. Environmental Cost of Biomedical Waste Management, S. Srividhya and Paul P. Appasamy  11. E-waste Recycling by Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide, Ashish Chaturvedi, Rachna Arora and Ulrike Killguss  Part 4. Trade and Environment  12. Agriculture and Environment in India, Amita Shah  13. Is India turning into A Pollution Haven?, Debashis Chakraborty Conclusion, Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty

O autorze

Sacchidananda Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. Before joining NIPFP, he was with International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad and World Wide Fund for Nature-India, New Delhi. Hehas workedon public finance, environmental economics and water resources management issues in India for thelastdecade. Dr Mukherjee has studied at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai (Ph.D. in Environmental Economics) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (M.A. in Economics). He has conducted research projects funded by the Planning Commission, Government of India; IWMI, Colombo; British High Commission and published his research papers in national and international journals. He has been consulted by the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and Madras School of Economics, Chennai. Dr. Mukherjee is a life member of Indian Society for Ecological Economics and a reviewer (ad hoc) of Water Resources Management,Water Policy, Environment and Development Economics,Urban Water Journal, and International Journal of Global Environmental Issues. Debashis Chakraborty is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. Before joining IIFT, he worked for five years in Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies. He received his Doctorate Degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests includes international trade policy and WTO negotiations, environmental sustainability and Indian economic development. He has presented and published his research in various academic and policy forums in India and abroad. He is also reviewer of several national and international journals.