Jiwitesh Kumar Singh Debendra (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. Contents: Preface. I. Environmental economics : nature and dimensions: 1. Issues in environmental economics/J.K. Singh. 2. How economists view the environment?/Satish K. Tripathi. 3. Economic approaches to environment: an overview/J.K. Singh. 4. Does poverty harm environment? Evidence from Indian village/Shyam Sunder Pd. Sharma. 5. Economic reforms and environment: the Indian evidence/Bishwa Nath Singh. II. Environment and sustainable development: emerging issues: 6. Sustainable development: fact and interpretation/L.S. Singh. 7. Environmental security and sustainable development: reflections on conceptual framework/Binita Verma. 8. Making development sustainable: issues and policy recommendations/Kumar Ratnesh. 9. Strategy for measuring sustainable development/B.N.P. Singh. III. Natural resources, environment and population: present scenario and future options: 10. Natural resources and environment/Kumari Rekha. 11. Sustainable development of natural resources/Ghazala Urfi. 12. Water crisis in India/Md. Tarique. 13. Population and environment/Asheshwar Thakur. IV. Environment and ecological degradation: crisis and response: 14. Lester Brown's new thesis on "eco-economy"/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 15. Features of the ecological situation in developing countries/Rakesh Kumar Jha. 16. Ecological imbalance and environmental degradation in India/Ranjana Narain. 17. Impact of ecological degradation-legislative measures and judicial response/Rajdeva Narayan. V. Environment and pollution: sources and effects: 18. Urbanisation and environmental degradation in context of Indian economy/Ravindra Nath Singh. 19. Automobiles and air pollution: an overview/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 20. Environment : quality and control/Shobha Rani. VI. Environmental protection: some managerial issues: 21. Trade-offs between water for food and environment security: issues and options/Kamta Prasad. 22. Environmental, social and equity aspects of large dams in India/P. Jegadish Gandhi. 23. Flood management and sustainable development: a case study of North Bihar/Prasoon Kumar Roy and Meera Kumari. 24. A study of forest management in India/Shankar Sao. Index."The present book is designed to touch almost every important aspect of environmental economics. The book contains valuable contributions of resource persons as well as teacher participants in the sphere of the most innovative theme on the nature and dimensions of environmental economics. The book contains altogether twenty-three papers divided into six parts. "Thus, the book is planned to aim at an exhaustive treatment of almost all the leading aspects of environmental economics. It will generate greater interest among the academicians, researchers and policy-makers in finding some practical answer to the nature and dimensions, fact and interpretation and, above all, the crisis and response to the main components of environmental degradation and sustainable development." (jacket) 303 pp.