Ecological Limits and Economic Development - Hardcover

Sengupta, Ramprasad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198081650 ISBN 13: 9780198081654

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of the role of ecological constraints in limiting the availability of natural resources for economic development. It discusses in detail the notion of sustainable development, the concept of ecological footprints, and population theory. It also analyses how the development of technology, policies, and institutions can relax these constraints in the context of major resources. The analytical discussion is carried out both at the conceptual and theoretical level and also at the applied level in the context of Indian development.

Addressing challenges arising from ecological limits, the book engages with the dynamics of and policies for conservation of an entire range of major resources-land and soil, water, forests, biodiversity, energy, non-energy, material, and waste absorption. It identifies the role of knowledge, values, human capital, and institutions in overcoming nature's constraints. This book has a good potential to be used as a supplementary reader in universities offering courses on environment and economics.

About this title

About the Author:

Ramprasad Sengupta is Sukhamoy Chakravarty Chair Professor of Planning and Development, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0198081650
• ISBN 13: 9780198081654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424