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 world. It covers some critical areas like theory of externalities and market failure, valuation and accounting of environmental impacts, economic instruments from industrial pollution and environmental resources, poverty environmental degradation and corporate environmental management.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pushpam Kumar
Pushpam Kumar, Reader at the Institute of Economic Growth, holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from the Delhi University. He has taught Master’s level students in the Department of Business Economics, Delhi University for several years. He is the Member Secretary to the World Bank constituted Environmental Economics Training committee for Practicing Economists and Non-Economists (EETCPN) of the ‘World Bank Aided India Environmental Management Capacity Building Technical Assistance Project in Environmental Economics’. He is involved in many international collaborative research projects and currently he is Coordinator of Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA). His research interests include valuation and accounting of ecosystem services, bioprospecting and corporate social responsibility. His earlier book was Linkages of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development: Some Issues in Modelling, Accounting and Valuation, Manak Publications, Delhi.
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