The present study is an attempt at developing indicators of sustainability, compressing them into indices and applying these indices to assess the sustainability of development at various levels of the Indian economy. The levels assessed include the country level, both in terms of international comparisons and changes in the country’s development path over time, sub-country levels–views state and district economies, and at the micro level of a hill resort town and a group of mountain villages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nira Ramachandran
Nira Ramachandran is a development consultant and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. Prior to this, she was engaged in post-doctoral research on sustainable development as an ICSSR Senior Fellow at the LBSNAA, Mussoorie, where she also spent two years as the Co-ordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development. Her previous appointments were as CSIR Senior Fellow, Delhi University; Assistant Professor, Bangalore University and Research Fellow, IIM, Bangalore. She holds a Ph.D. in Regional Development from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and has been trained at the Institute for International Studies and Training, Fujinomiya, Japan. She has lectured extensively and conducted training programmes in the areas of food security, environmental sustainability, primary education and project management. She has several publications to her credit including a book entitled Monitoring Sustainability: Indices and Techniques of Analysis (2000) and Carrying Capacity of Mussoorie (co-author), which is forthcoming. She has also worked as Consultant for International Organisations like the FAO and is EDI Fellow of the World Bank.
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