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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. It consists of outstanding articles and is divided in 3 major parts. The Part I is on 'Tourism and Indian Economic Development : General and Theoretical Issues'. The next part deals with 'Tourism and Environment in India' . The Part III at the end deals with Tourism and Economic Development in Orissa. It is expected that this book will throw important light on the very important and growing tourism sector in India. It is expected that academicians and researchers will find this book both helpful, informative and analytical in nature.

Contents Section I Issues in Sustainable Development Some Reflections 1 Issues in Sustainable Development for Indian EconomyMM Goel and Sanchita 2 Sustainable Development The Gandhian PerspectiveBN Ghosh 3 Sustainable Development Some ReflectionsSudarshan Iyengar 4 A Few New Words on Sustainable Development Santosh Kumar Ghorai II Ecological Limits Environmentally Sound Technologies and Ecosystem Accounts 5 Ecological Limits and Economic DevelopmentRamprasad Sengupta 6 Environmentally Sound Technologies for Sustainable Development of IndiaU Sankar 7 Ecosystem Accounts for Resource Allocation A Framework for Sustainable Development III Natural Resources and Sustainable Development 8 Agricultural Sustainability and the Introduction of Genetically Modified OrganismsGMOSClem Tisdell 9 Managing Forests for Biodiversity Conservation The Case of West BengalDebal Ray 10 Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in an Indian Tribal Village EcosystemNC Sahu CD Panda and LP Panda 11 Degrading the Development or Developing the Degradation A Case of Soil Salinity in Sugarcane Belt of MaharashtraVB Jugale 12 Tradable Water Rights for Sustainable Water Management in India Problems and ProspectsL Venkatachalam 13 Sustainability of Indian Fisheries An AssessmentPradeep K Katiha and Sanchita Sarkar IV Mitigating Impacts for Climate Change 14 Sectoral Approach for Negotiating climate Change What is in it for the Indian EconomyJoyashree Roy Moumita Roy and Shreya Roychwdhury 15 Indo-Bangladesh Co-operation to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts on SunderbansRaj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra V Institutions Management Practices and Social Responsibilities for Sustainable Development 16 Institutions for Sustainable Development The role of Prices Norms and Law in Global and National Policy PerspectivesKanchan Chopra 17 Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in IndiaMN Murty 18 Impact of Environmental Management Practices on Profitability and Market Value of Indian Industrial FirmsBishwanath Goldar 19 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable BusinessShrawan Kumar Singh IndexFor Sustainable economic development one cannot deny the role of environmental ecology which is either not considered or not adequately emphasized in the mainstream approach of economic growth for the developing economies It was felt that poverty is the greatest polluter and environmental considerations are nothing but luxury for the poor countries and poor people but gradually it has been agreed that by following the approach of sustainable economic development the interests of both the poor and rich people belonging to both types of countries not only of the present generation but also of the future generation are protected An attempt is made in this book to understand the problems related with environment ecology and sustainable economic development Jacket 388 pp.

Contents I Disparity in development 1 Regional disparitiesBiswajit Guha 2 An enquiry into the sub-state level disparitiesDebendra Narayan Bhattacharyya 3 Inter-district income disparityDhires Bhattacharya Puspa Tarafdar and Abhijit Dutta 4 Growth diversification and instabilityGunendra Prasad Pal 5 Regional disparity trendsPavel Chakraborty and Debashis Chakraborty 6 Economic development a study of centricityJayanta Sen and DP Pal II Agriculture 7 Regional disparity in productivity of boro and Aman Paddies in six DistrictsRuma Bhattacharya and Biswajit Chatterjee 8 An analysis of inter-district disparity in foodgrains productionArpita Ghose nee dhar and Dipyaman Pal 9 Disparity and convergence of daily wage rate of male agricultural labour since 1990-91Debesh Bhowmik III Human development 10 Disparity of human poverty index the role of infrastructureSushil K Halder and Kajari Roy 11 Regional disparity in income and human development since 1980sPrankrishna Pal 12 Development paradigm of health-education nexus--an examination of regional disparitiesDhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay IV Infrastructure urbanization and small scale industries 13 Inter district  disparity in the growth of urbanizationDhirendra Nath Konar 14 Road transport system and regional disparitiesDebasish Bera Dhirendra Nath Konar and Dilip Halder 15 Disparity in the development of small scale industriesMohasin Mallick 16 Regional disparities in developmentKalipada Basu V Backwardness in North Bengal 17 Comparative backwardness of North Bengal" Strategies for its developmentKanak Bagchi and Satyen Sarker 18 Regional disparity and secessionist Militancy in North BengalSumit Mukherjee Index Development experiences in India are diverse and there exist wide disparities across regions and states of India in terms of wide range of indicators viz income growth employment poverty human deprivations and living conditions including education health and other infrastructure But there are also wide disparities across different regions within a state in terms of selected indicators and attempts to understand the reasons for such disparities within the political boundary of a state in Indian federation are not many Born out of the papers presented in the 26th Annual Conference of Bangiya Arthaniti Parishad the present collection provides an important amalgam of issues that needs attention of economists and policy makers jacket 404 pp.

Contents Foreword List of contributors I Environment and Sustainable development concepts and ideas 1 Globalization and sustainabilities issues and challenges VR Panchamukhi 2 Sustainable development and environment lessons from ancient Indian wisdom SD Chamola 3 Environment and ecology in Kautilya Arthasastra Ratan Lal Basu 4 Environment and sustainable development M Anisur Rahman II Sustainable management of natural resources and environmental governance 1 Sustainable management of renewable resources with reference to India Kausik Gupta and Sanchita Som 6 EPI and its relationship with some macroecnomic indicators Amrita Pal and Jayanta Sinha 7 Project appraisal environmental accounting and sustainable development Pranab Nag and Anup Kumar Saha 8 Participatory global environmental governance mechanism for sustainable society G Sathis Kumar and S Ramaswamy 9 Relationship between environment health and education importance of community participation Sheela Datta Ghatak III Environment and sustainable development specific issues 10 The relevance of indigenous peoples a case study of the Rajbansi Community of North Bengal Asok Dasgupta 11 Poverty property rights and common property land resources management in the tribal belt of Orissa Aniruddha Ohha 12 Ecotourism as an environmentally sustainable development process a case study of Sonamukhi Forests Bankura Mala Bhattacharjee and Rajrupa Mitra 13 Ecological approach to remove chronic poverty and sustainable development for India Somnath Hazra and Raj Kumar Sen IV Sustainable development Sectoral issues 14 Mining sector in India under globalization and a sustainable development approach in terms of EIA and CSR Binayak Rath 15 Environment sustainable development and slums Har Govind Prakash 16 SEZ pollution and sustainable development Anath Bandhu Mukherjee 17 Sustainable development and environment protection Role of the banking sector PS Tripathi and Shweta Dikshit 18 Environmental pollution agricultural production and livelihood of the cultivators around Kolaghat Thermal Power Plant Subrata Kumar Ray and Sk Nazrul Hussan 19 Pollution impacts of the Indian sponge iron industry Rifat Mumtaz Appendix Index Environmental studies have taken an important place among the thinkers as well as policy makers of both developed and developing countries Gradually the related concepts like ecology biodiversity conservation of natural resources sustainable development and others started to emerge and in economics also a new branch called environmental economics has now come to stay Though there is an acceptable definition of sustainable development as per the Bruntland Commission yet under the current development paradigm of neo liberal thinking it is not very easy to implement in actual practice the operative part of it An attempt is made in this volume to understand the problems related with environment and sustainable development and especially those which are particularly relevant for India jacket 394 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. I. General issues: 1. Poverty dynamic and sustainability perspectives: implications for welfare and policy with reference to India/Clem Tisdell. 2. Poverty alleviation and sustainable development: some conceptual analysis/Shyam Sunder Pd. Sharma and Rajeshwar Prasad Singh. 3. Poverty and sustainable development: global perspective/Ram Binod Singh. 4. Linkage between poverty and sustainable development/Hrindra Kishor Mishra. 5. A policy framework for poverty alleviation and sustainable development/A.K. Agarwal. 6. Poverty is eluding sustainable development/Chinmayee Chaturvedi. 7. Poverty and sustainable development/Kalpana Singh. 8. Problems of poverty eradication and sustainable development in India/Hem Chandra Lal Das. 9. Issues on poverty and sustainable development/Debesh Bhowmik. 10. Poverty and sustainable development: Indian perspective/Daya Nidhi Prasad Roy. 11. Poverty and sustainable development future challenges/Bani Prasad Bhattacharyya. 12. Integration of environmental considerations and poverty in the development process of India: a review/Md. Abdus Salam. II. Sectoral and specific issues: 13. Poverty and sustainable development: a study of Nepal/Ram Khelawan Yadav. 14. Poverty environment nexus: a study for Asian and Pacific countries/Jyotish Prakash Basu. 15. Poverty and sustainable development with reference to health in India/Angrej Singh. Index.

Contents Remembering Professor Alak GhoshRaj Kumar Sen The emerging issues of the modern Indian economy an overviewRaj Kumar Sen I Global economic crisis 1 The recent global economic crisisTamal Datta Chaudhuri 2 The great depression and the present 690 pp.