Environment and Development

Essays in Honour of Dr U. Sankar
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-93-5328-846-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shanmugam, K R

Kumar, K. S. Kavi

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by C. Rangarajan
Acknowledgements
Introduction and Overview - K R Shanmugam and K S Kavi Kumar
I. ENVIRONMENT
Estimating the Cost of Environmental Degradation in India - Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar, Elena Strukova and Gaurav Joshi
Discount Rate for Environmental Health Risks: A Comparative Study - K.R. Shanmugam
Low Carbon Goods and Services: International Cooperation on Technological Innovation, Transfer and Funding Needs - Kaliappa Kalirajan, Anbumozhi Venkatachalam and Thanh Nguyen
Carbon Intensity and Labour Intensity in India - Brinda Viswanathan and Ishwarya Balasubramanian
Natural Solutions to Environmental Issues: The Case of the Textile Sector - Badri Narayanan G
Are Fiscal Subsidies Harmful for the Environment? - Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty
Climate Change Burden Sharing: A Reappraisal of the Equity Debate - Anubhab Pattanayak and K S Kavi Kumar
Economic Value of Water Using Hedonic Price Method - Haripirya Gundimeda and Vinish Kathuria
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
Economic Analysis of Irrigation Institutions: A Case Study - Durba Biswas and L Venkatachalam
Improving Tiger Conservation in India - Zareena Begum I and Amanat K Gill
II. DEVELOPMENT
Importance of Excess Female Mortality in Explaining Lowness of the Sex Ratio in India - D Jayaraj
Subsidized Credit vs Public Works Programme in Rural India - Kausik Chaudhuri and Debanjali Dasgupta
Budgetary Allocation on Education: A Study of Inter-state Imbalances - C Bhujanga Rao and D K Srivastava
Health Outcome Efficiency of the Indian States - J Prachithaand and K R Shanmugam
The Software Sector in Bangalore and Hyderabad - V N Balasubramanyam and Ahalya Balasubramanyam
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shanmugam, K R
K.R. Shanmugam is a faculty member of Madras School of Economics since its inception in 1995. He is a member of Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the CMPA, MoEF and GIZ. He is also a non-officio member of Central Direct Taxes Advisory Committee; non-officio member of State Planning Board of Government of Pondicherry; member of various committees of Government of Tamil Nadu; Academic Council Member of Central University of Tamil Nadu and Indian Institute of Finance. He held the position of Treasurer of Indian Econometric Society during 2001–06.

Kumar, K. S. Kavi
K.S. Kavi Kumar has been coordinating activities of Centre of Excellence in Environmental Economics (supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests) at MSE for the past eight years. He is a member of the Expert Committee on Climate Change, MoEF&CC, GoI, and a member of State Environment Appraisal Committee (Tamil Nadu) and he has been working at MSE since 1999.