Environmental and ecological economics is a transdisciplinary branch of knowledge. It covers the study of the processes of simultaneity involved in the functioning of the economy and the environmental/ecological system, with a view to promoting human well-being sustainably. During the last three decades, numerous difficult environmental problems of humanity have been explored and analysed which have entarged the frontiers of environmental and ecological economics. Yet the vast mass of literature on the subject remains diffused in a variety of study materials not easily accessible to students. Besides covering the paradigmatic bases of environmental, ecological and natural resource economics, this book discusses the economic dimensions of and approaches to pollution, environmental and ecosystem management, biodiversity, global warming, energy and resource use, environmental evaluation and sustainable development. The book can serve teachers and students at graduate and post-graduate levels and also stimulate research in this vast and growing field.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amita Kumari Choudhury
Amita Kumari Choudhury received her Ph.D. in economics from Berhampur University and visited the University of York, UK under a World Bank short-term grant. She has specialized in environmental economics. She has twenty-two years of experience in teaching and research. She has published more than twenty-five research papers in national international journals. She is a life member of the International Institute of Development Studies, the Indian Economics Association and the Indian Society for Ecological Economics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nirmal Chandra Sahu
Nirmal Chandra Sahu received his Ph.D. in economics from Berhampur University and pursued post-doctoral studies in the University of York, UK under a World Bank Project Fellowship. He has specialized in environmental and ecological economics. He has twenty-eight years of experience in teaching and research, and has guided many doctoral students. He has published more than sixty research papers in national and international journals and brought out two books. He is a life member of the Indian Economics Association and the Indian Society for Ecological Economics.
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