Sustainable Development Goals: An Indian Perspective - Hardcover

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9783030424879: Sustainable Development Goals: An Indian Perspective
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030424871 ISBN 13: 9783030424879
Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries. With a focus on poverty and economics, the contributors offer sector and state specific performance analyses of each goal, determining the feasibility for different states and regions to implement a given goal under conditions of extreme poverty and economic distress. Readers will learn how to perform comprehensive economic performance analyses, and how to apply these methods at local and regional scales within the framework of sustainable development. The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying sustainable development, economics, and policy analysis, as well as NGOs and government agencies working towards achieving the SDGs in impoverished nations. 

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About the Author

Dr. Somnath Hazra is a trained Ecological Economist, with an expertise in Climate Change Economics, Forest Economics, Sustainable Development, Ecosystem Services, Environmental valuation and Policy analysis. He has vast research experience in different Indian research centers as well as teaching experiences at UG and PG level in different Universities in West Bengal.  He has experience in managing and executing development programmes in various capacities for Government, International Development organizations and Private Sector. He has visited different countries all over the world for performing different project assignments and also for the presentation of research articles on climate change, environmental and development economics. He has in his credit more than 50 research articles and 5 edited volumes related to Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development. 

 Dr. Anindya Bhukta is Associate Professor of Economics at Netaji Mahavidyalaya, India. Hehas over twenty years of experience in teaching economics at the undergraduate level.  He is a prolific writer and has written hundreds of articles on economic and environmental issues in regional languages. Dr. Bhukta has also published more than sixty books on issues in Indian economic problems and policies and also on environmental issues.   He has special interest on Intellectual Property Rights.


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This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries. With a focus on poverty and economics, the contributors offer sector and state specific performance analyses of each goal, determining the feasibility for different states and regions to implement a given goal under conditions of extreme poverty and economic distress. Readers will learn how to perform comprehensive economic performance analyses, and how to apply these methods at local and regional scales within the framework of sustainable development.The book will be of interest to students and researchers studying sustainable development, economics, and policy analysis, as well as NGOs and government agencies working towards achieving the SDGs in impoverished nations. 

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030424871
ISBN 13 
9783030424879
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
326
Editor
Hazra Somnath, Bhukta Anindya

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