Environment and Sustainable Economic Development

Contents: Section. I: Issues in Sustainable Development: Some Reflections. 1. Issues in Sustainable Development for Indian Economy/M.M. Goel and Sanchita. 2. Sustainable Development: The Gandhian Perspective/B.N. Ghosh. 3. Sustainable Development: Some Reflections/Sudarshan Iyengar. 4. A Few New Words on Sustainable Development/ Santosh Kumar Ghorai. II: Ecological Limits, Environmentally Sound Technologies and Ecosystem Accounts: 5. Ecological Limits and Economic Development/Ramprasad Sengupta. 6. Environmentally Sound Technologies for Sustainable Development of India/U. Sankar. 7. Ecosystem Accounts for Resource Allocation: A Framework for Sustainable Development. III: Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. 8. Agricultural Sustainability and the Introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOS)/Clem Tisdell. 9. Managing Forests for Biodiversity Conservation: The Case of West Bengal/Debal Ray. 10. Biodiversity and Sustainable Development in an Indian Tribal Village Ecosystem/N.C. Sahu, C.D. Panda and L.P. Panda. 11. Degrading the Development or Developing the Degradation?: A Case of Soil Salinity in Sugarcane Belt of Maharashtra/V.B. Jugale. 12. Tradable Water Rights for Sustainable Water Management in India: Problems and Prospects/L. Venkatachalam. 13. Sustainability of Indian Fisheries: An Assessment/Pradeep K. Katiha and Sanchita Sarkar. IV: Mitigating Impacts for Climate Change. 14. Sectoral Approach for Negotiating climate Change: What is in it for the Indian Economy?/Joyashree Roy, Moumita Roy and Shreya Roychwdhury. 15. Indo-Bangladesh Co-operation to Mitigate Climate Change: Impacts on Sunderbans/Raj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra. V: Institutions, Management Practices and Social Responsibilities for Sustainable Development. 16. Institutions for Sustainable Development: The role of Prices, Norms and Law in Global and National Policy Perspectives/Kanchan Chopra. 17. Design of Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India/M.N. Murty. 18. Impact of Environmental Management Practices on Profitability and Market Value of Indian Industrial Firms/Bishwanath Goldar. 19. Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Business/Shrawan Kumar Singh. Index.

For Sustainable economic development one cannot deny the role of environmental ecology, which is either not considered or not adequately emphasized in the mainstream approach of economic growth for the developing economies. It was felt that poverty is the greatest polluter and environmental considerations are nothing but luxury for the poor countries and poor people, but gradually it has been agreed that by following the approach of sustainable economic development the interests of both the poor and rich people belonging to both types of countries not only of the present generation but also of the future generation are protected. An attempt is made in this book to understand the problems related with environment, ecology and sustainable economic development. (Jacket)