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This book, based on interdisciplinary tradition of ecological economics, is an attempt to explore one of the most serious environmental problems of our time - soil erosion. Soil erosion has well been documented and researched by soil scientists and other ecologists but economic dimension remains in the periphery only. This book systematically analyses the response of economists to the problem of soil erosion in last 200 years. The analysis runs mainly in terms of ...
This textbook is essentially meant to cater to needs to needs of students of Economics, Business Economic and allied areas at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The Syllabus of the paper in Environmental and Resource Economics currently adopted in the University of Delhi and other universities in the country has been kept in mind while designing this book. It includes specially contributed articles by acknowledged experts of the discipline from all over ...
The contribution of ecology for human well-being remains blurred in decision-making frameworks, although its impact on societal well-being is profound. This volume presents some of the latest developments in research in interdisciplinary traditions of ecological economics in India. It outlines strategies and politics that can be adopted to ensure ecological sustainability. Containing both methodological and empirical essays, the book covers a ...
Ecosystems provide services that sustain, strengthen and enrich various constituents of human well-being. The unique feature of most of these services is that they are unaccounted and unpriced, and therefore remain outside the domain of the market. For this reason, the use of innovative instruments for the management and measurement of transactions between provider and beneficiaries of environmental services--known as payment for ecosystem services (PES)--has ...