Grounded in current issues and constraints, this book focuses on valuing environmental degradation, green economic growth, trade–environment linkage, climate change, health outcome efficiency and public works programmes.
Can the ‘impressive’ growth rates registered by the Indian economy last in the long run? If so, are they inclusive of the key dimensions of well-being? Can the balance between India’s demand for and supply of natural capital make the country an ecological debtor? This volume, in honour of Professor U. Sankar, addresses such significant debates and provides policy initiatives to tackle these issues.
This book argues that sustainable development as a long-term objective demands a paradigm shift in the approach to viewing ecology and that sustainability has to be assessed in terms of economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Contents: Foreword. Introduction and Overview/K R Shanmugam and K S Kavi Kumar. I. Environment: 1. Estimating the Cost of Environmental Degradation in India/Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar, Elena Strukova and Gaurav Joshi.2. Discount Rate for Environmental Health Risks: A Comparative Study/K.R. Shanmugam. 3. Low Carbon Goods and Services: International Cooperation on Technological Innovation, Transfer and Funding Needs/Kaliappa Kalirajan, Anbumozhi Venkatachalam and Thanh Nguyen 4. Carbon Intensity and Labour Intensity in India/Brinda Viswanathan and Ishwarya Balasubramanian. 5. Natural Solutions to Environmental Issues: The Case of the Textile Sector/Badri Narayanan G.6. Are Fiscal Subsidies Harmful for the Environment?/Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty. 7. Climate Change Burden Sharing: A Reappraisal of the Equity Debate/Anubhab Pattanayak and K S Kavi Kumar.8. Economic Value of Water Using Hedonic Price Method/Haripirya Gundimeda and Vinish Kathuria. 9. Assessing On-farm Conservation and Farmer’s Willingness to Participate: A Case Study of Minor Millet/Sukanya Das, Prabhakaran T Raghu and E D Israel Oliver King.10. Economic Analysis of Irrigation Institutions: A Case Study/Durba Biswas and L Venkatachalam. 11. Improving Tiger Conservation in India/Zareena Begum I and Amanat K Gill. II. Development:12. Importance of Excess Female Mortality in Explaining Lowness of the Sex Ratio in India/D. Jayaraj. 13. Subsidized Credit vs Public Works Programme in Rural India/Kausik Chaudhuri and Debanjali Dasgupta.14. Budgetary Allocation on Education: A Study of Inter-state Imbalances/C. Bhujanga Rao and D. K. Srivastava. 15. Health Outcome Efficiency of the Indian States/J. Prachithaand and K. R. Shanmugam.16. The Software Sector in Bangalore and Hyderabad/V. N. Balasubramanyam and Ahalya Balasubramanyam. Index.
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