Challenges to Sustainable Development in India

Contents: Preface. I. Concept, issues, problems and challenges of sustainable development: 1. Sustainable development: an empirical analysis/Ugra Mohan Jha and A.K. Poddar. 2. An intervention for sustainable development: understandings derived from new institutional economic perspective/Sunit Singh. 3. Economics of sustainable development/Satyabrata Mishra. 4. Incorporating aging in sustainable development process/Bipul Malakar and Sudip Jana. 5. Sustainable development: a path to survival/Apurba Kr. Medhi and Irani Duttamedhi. 6. Sustainable development in India : a critical analysis/P.S. Kamble. 7. Economics of sustainable development: concept and measurement/A.S. Mohammad. 8. Challenges to sustainable development in India/Kewal Raj Dawar. II. Agriculture and sustainable development: 9. Dynamic approach towards sustainable development for agriculture in India/S.Y. Patil. 10. Soil degradation and unsustainable agricultural growth/Joydeb Sasmal. 11. Sustainability in agriculture: some basic issues/M.N. Swarna and B.S. Rao. 12. Sustainable development of hill agriculture in Uttarakhand: issues and options/Anil Kumar Dixit, B.M. Pandey and A.K. Sharma. 13. Dimensions of agricultural sustainability and role of participatory agricultural research/B.P. Chandramohan, K. Sampath Kumar, K. Chitra Devi and A. Vasanthi. 14. Energy consumption for sustainability of agriculture development/A.K. Vitonde, Arti Chorey, R.B. Bhandwalkar and P.J. Katole. 15. Irrigation and sustainable development/N.T. Somashekaraiah and Mahendra Kumar. 16. Sustaining agriculture through organic farming/Dhiren Vandra. III. Ecology, environment, climate change and sustainable development: 17. Sustainable development and environment: some global issues/Rajender Kumar. 18. Environmental accounting for sustainable development/R. Meenakshi. 19. Biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in India/Nirmal Chandra Sahu and Santosh Kumar Bali. 20. An analytical study of industrial air pollution and environmental sustainability with special reference to Bhopal (M.P.)/Urmila Vijayvargiya. 21. Climate change and carbon markets/R. Balasubramaniyan and S. Malini. 22. Green vehicles an alternative to fuel conservation and an innovation for sustainable economic growth/Priti Priyadarshani Mohapatro. 23. Economy and bio-diversity: Conservation for sustainable development/Poorniam Tripathi. 24. Crop ecology and sustainable development/Md. Reyazuddin. IV. Human development, women empowerment, micro-finance/credit and sustainable development: 25. Sustainable economic growth and development with human face: a challenge/S.S. Naik. 26. Corporate social responsibility and sustainable business: an analysis/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 27. Micro-finance-sustainable development of disadvantaged women: a case study/T.V. Ramana and K.V. Ramana Murty. 28. Health infrastructure and sustainable development/A. Gunasekaran and D.B. Usha Rani. 29. Sustainable development and rural women/Geetali Sarma and G.C. Sarma. 30. Rural financial access and micro-finance for sustainable development/Gautam Kumar Sinha. 31. Cooperative credit and sustainable rural development/Sudheer B. and C.S.N. Raju. 32. Economic development towards sustainable human development/R. Anwar Imam. 33. Dimensions and prospects of corporate social responsibility and sustainable businesses/Pradeep Hadke, Surendra R. Jichkar and Rajiv S. Satokar. V. Tourism and sustainable development: 34. Sustainable development of tourism/Anjan Majumdar and Bratati Majumdar. 35. Pro-poor tourism and sustainable development of Chilika Lake, Orissa/Amita Kumari Choudhury. VI. Miscellaneous issues of sustainable development: 36. Solar energy and sustainable development/M.R. Sasikala. 37. Sustainable development and non-conventional energy generation: a study of Ludhiana/Mini Goyal, Pratibha Goyal and Sunil Aggarwal. 38. Evolution of common property resources for sustainable livelihood: a study of marine fishermen in Orissa/P. Sahu and B.K. Panda. 39. Traditional knowledge, IPRs and sustainable development/V.K. Malhotra and Jyoti. 40. Inclusiveness and sustainability--a vision for India's development/Rajeev Johari. 41. Community based fisheries management: a strategy for sustainable development/Purushottam Sahu. Index.
 
"As an economy treads along a higher growth path, the income level of some sections experiences significant increase. This increase in prosperity changes the demand pattern in the economy and by the market mechanism, production of goods used by the prospering sections goes up. Production of consumption items of rich often requires more resources on an average than what production of poor man's consumption items needs. Therefore, with rise in income supply of poor man's production items may fall sizeable, making their livelihood unsustainable. We mean sustainable development has thrown out a challenge to economics, academics and other fields like ecological system.

41 papers have been selected for inclusion in this volume. There is an introduction added for the convenience of the readers which outlines main issues and the central tenet of the volume along a brief summary of each paper." (jacket)