Environment and Sustainable Development in India
Contents: Foreword. List of contributors. I. Environment and Sustainable development : concepts and ideas: 1. Globalization and sustainabilities: issues and challenges/V.R. Panchamukhi. 2. Sustainable development and environment: lessons from ancient Indian wisdom/S.D. Chamola. 3. Environment and ecology in Kautilya’s 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/P.S. 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)
