Economic Growth and Environment
Contents: I. Introductory: 1. Economics of environment: some issue/S. Murty. 2. Environmental issues of development/R. Cauvery and UK Sudha Nayak. 3. Environmental problems and approach, one\'s strategy, other\'s tragedy/P.S. Dubey. II. Economic Growth and Environment: 4. Environment and economic growth/N. Kruparani, Girijabai & A. Manimekalai. 5. Economic growth and environment: some emerging issues/Shyam Sunder Prasad Sharma. 6. Economic growth, urbanisation, population growth and environment in M.P./Shekhar Mukherji. 7. Economic growth, urbanisation and environment/S.K. Patel and R.C. Talati. III. Industrial Growth and Environment: 8. Industrial growth, environment and ecology in India/P.L. Sablok. 9. Industrial development knocking at the door of environmental destruction/Anjana Jain. IV. Environmental Issues for Sustainable Development: 10. Environmental issues for attaining sustainable development in L.D.Cs/N. Manon Money.
11. Gender, environment and sustainable development/Rucha Chate. 12. On environmentally sustainable development/Santi Kumar Ghosh. 13. Significance of non economic aspects for conserving environmental resources and attaining sustainable development in L.D.Cs/N. Manon Money. V. Socio Political Aspects of Environment: 14. Socio-economic aspects of environment challenges before management/Jagdish Prakash. 15. Corporate sector and social environemnt/M.N. Mishra. 16. Environment and society-economic and social issues/R.C. Singh. 17. Environmental challenges and political responses: India\'s development syndrone/Pravin Sheth. VI. Ways to Environmental Protection: 18. The fiscal way to environmental protection/Tapan Chaurey. 19. Economic answers to growth and environment controversy/Neeta Tapan. 20. Sustainable agriculture and LDCs: a timely call or a premature bogey? Population growth and ecological balancing/O.S. Shrivastava.
"Economic Growth and Environment" is aimed to look into the various environmental issues of development. It proves into the environmental imbalance arising out of economic growth, industrial growth, transport growth, population growth, urbanisation etc. The book puts forth certain framework for attaining environmentally sustainable development. Besides economic aspects, sociopolitical aspects of environment degenaration and environment protection have also been taken into consideration. Proper agricultural policy, industrail policy, growth policy, fiscal policy and population policy are prescribed for the environmental protection in various economics specially LDCs. The book brings into clear focus the problems arising from uneven development, exploitative production and unthoughtful consumption. It provides critical framework for the analysis of the problems out-springing from the relationship between environment, bureaucracy, technocracy, industry, agriculture and urbanisation. It also gives some suggestions to overcome these problems." (jacket)
[S. Murthy is Presently Professor and Head, School of Studies in Economics Vikram University, Ujjain.]
