Contents: Introduction: The challenge of the balance development of alternative institutions/Anil Agarwal. I. Inaugural Session: 1. Welcome address/Anil Agarwal. 2. Keynote addresses: An economist's Perspective sustainable development with special reference to India/C.H. Hanumantha Rao. 3. A Politician's Perspective: balance between development and environment/Madhu Dandavate. 4. An Environmentalist's Perspective political dimensions of sustainability/Anil Agarwal. 5. Chief Guest's remarks/Kamal Nath. 6. Chairperson's remarks/Jayant Patil. II. Sustainable Development and Accounting: 1. Natural Resource Accounting: i. Community resource accounting and management system/Sixto Roxas. ii. Natural resource accounting: a framework for India/Kirit S. Parikh, Jyoti K Parikh, V.K. Sharma and J.P. Painuly. iii. Economic valuation of the pristine quality: some issues/T. Lakshmanasamy. 2. Poverty and Environment: Rural women's participation: food gathering, food insecurity and hunger periods--some policy implications from Village Krishna Rakshit Chak in West Bengal/Neela Mukherjee and Amitabha Mukherjee. 3. Trade and Environment: i. Economic development and environmental impact: issues related to sustainable development/Anil Markandya. ii. Foreign trade in agricultural commodities and environment/Katar Singh. iii. Transnational environmental concerns/Ashok Khemka.
4. Intellectual Property Rights and Environment: Trademarking environmental concerns: a crucial issue/Bibek Debroy. 5. Biodiversity: Traditional medicine economic dimensions and conservation of its resource base/Darshan Shankar. 6. Sustainable Development: Disengaging for sustaining development: the art of the possible in India/A. Damodaran. III. Sustainable Land-use and Management: 1. Land-use Changes: Towards operationalising the concept of sustainable land-use: a micro-level study of valley landforms in Thrissur, Kerala/N.C. Narayanam. 2. Participatory Land Management: Population, poverty and environmental degradation: the role of property rights/Kanchan Chopra and S.C. Gulati. 3. Watershed Development: i. Economic and environmental benefits of watershed-based dryland development programmes in India/K.N. Ninan. ii. Managing the economics of the watershed: the Sadguru experience/Robert Mitchell. iii. Development of natural resources: a solution to environmental problems/K.N.R. Sastry. iv. Studies on micro-watershed development in low productive agricultural systems: need for an agroecosystemic approach/D.K. Bagchi, A.K. Maiti, T.K. Sasmal, T. Ghosh and K. Sarkar. 4. Ecologically Fragile Regions: Environmental concerns and sustainable development in the fragile resource regions of Rajasthan/M.S. Rathore. IV. Sustainable Agricultural and Livestock Development: 1. Agricultural Development: i. Environment and sustainable agricultural development: conflicts and contradictions/Ratna Reddy. ii. Agroclimatic regional planning in India: Some lessons/H.G. Hanumappa. iii. Sustainable development--experiences of Indian agriculture/T.N. Prakash, D.W. Pearce, M.G. Chandrakanth and Tejaswini. iv. Government policies and sustainability of agricultural development: a study in Western Himalaya/J.P. Bhati. v. Social and economic attributes of land distribution in Himachal Pradesh/R. Swarup. vi. Soil erosion and soil conservation costs in the High Range Agricultural Region of Kerala: an economic evaluation/V. Govindaru. vii. Determinants of degradation in the arid ecosystem of Western Rajasthan/Jagdeesh C Kalla. viii. Adverse effects of land degradation on the agricultural economy: some evidence from Saline and Waterlogged Areas/P.K. Joshi, B.L. Gajja and Jai Singh. 2. Animal Care: Small ruminants and the environment/Syed Ajmal Pasha.
V. Sustainable Forest Management: Forest Management: 1. Policy failure and the forestry sector: a critique of public policy and government interventions in the forestry sector/Manjul Bajaj. 2. Existence value of Kodagu sacred groves: implications for policy/M.G. Chandrakanth and M.G. Nagaraja. 3. Sustainable management of mangrove resources in India: strategies and options/R. Maria Saleth. 4. Joint forest management: optimal property rights?/Shashi Kolavalli. 5. Management of Soppina Betta forests in Western Ghats of Karnataka/N. Narasimha, T.N. Prakash, M.G. Chandrakanth and K.S. Krishna. 6. Chipko: the dialectics of economics and environment/D.D. Tewari. VI. Sustainable Water Management: 1. Environmental Costs of Irrigation Projects: Irrigation projects and environmental costing: some analytical techniques and policy implications/P.T. Umashankar and M.V. Somasundaram. 2. Tanks: i. Restoration of minor irrigation works in the Madras Presidency, 1880-1939/M. Atchi Reddy. ii. Tanks and tank irrigation/A. Vaidyanathan. 3. Lakes: Property rights, externalities and environmental pollution/Dinesh K. Marothia. 4. Groundwater: i. Groundwater management in India/Tushaar Shah. ii. Distinction between efficiency and sustainability: the role of energy prices in groundwater management/Marcus Moench and Dinesh Kumar. iii. Groundwater exploitation and its impact on environment in Western Tamil Nadu/C. Ramasamy and C. Sekar. iv. Environmental effect of groundwater exploitation/N. Venkatesa Palanichamy and K. Palanisami. 5. Urban Drinking Water: Economic aspects of water-use in Metropolitan Area: the case of Madras City/Paul P Appasamy. 6. Coastal Zone: Environmental issues along the coastal zone/John Kurien.
VII. Sustainable Energy Consumption and Pollution Abatement: 1. Energy: i. Incorporating environmental considerations in energy strategies: possibilities and limitations/Ligia Noronha. ii. Energy and structure of urban settlements/A.K. Maitra and S. Bhaduri. iii. Cooking energy and environment--a study in Rajasthan/K. Anantharam. 2. Pollution Abatement: i. Incentives and regulations for pollution abatement/Sudipto Mundle. ii. Social cost-benefit analysis of environmental pollution abatement: illustrations from coal mining and Oil Refining/M.N. Murty. VIII. Valedictory Session: 1. Concluding remarks/Anil Agarwal. 2. Rethinking growth/Wolfgang Sachs. 3. Chairperson's remarks/Raja Chelliah. References.
