India, Climate Change, and The Global Commons

This book explores the genesis of the concept of global commons against the backdrop of the global environmental problems of climate change, biodiversity conservation, desertification, and the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes. It highlights blockchains and cryptocurrencies, and their role in transforming global institutions. It delves on the advent of COVID-19 as a global common and the way the pandemic has been handled by the world community. The book also explores the way the current geopolitics of the world is contributing to the resolution of the conservation problem associated with global commons.

A. Damodaran, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Professor A. Damodaran began his career as a policy maker with the Government of India and switched to academics in 2001. He worked as Professor at Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, and switched to Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore as Professor in 2005. He has held academic assignments with the United Nations University Japan; the Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and the University of Bonn, Germany. He was an Obama - Singh Scholar in Residence at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He has also taught at St. Petersburg University in Russia.