Overview
- Contains contribution from internationally acclaimed scholars and academicians from reputed institutions in India providing invaluable specialised analyses of specifics and relevant policy insights
- Covers a diverse range of key real-world topics relevant to the current discourse on sustainability
- Provides environment and development economists to learn about the journey and progress in the subject over the last three decades as relevant to the Indian economy
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Big Picture: Evolving Perspectives
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The Energy Scenario: Dilemmas and Opportunities
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Sustainability Cross-Cuts: Developmental Aspects
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About this book
This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability. It is designed to bring in a host of perspectives highlighting the synergies and the trade-offs in this debate, showcasing research along with policy implications of putting research into use.
The global discussion on sustainability paints the broad canvas for this book. This volume aims to probe some contemporary issues that will help in understanding the sustainability narrative in India. The topics span over a host of questions on energy, environment, natural resources and related constituents of development. The discourse further extends to the role of economic modelling, public policy debates, political intervention, stakeholders’ response, community participation and so on. The discussions are often based on empirical support, review of existing literature as well as policy analysis. With an ultimate aim to understand the overall development narrative of the people of India, the discourse takes in its ambit the nuances of resource utilisation, economic growth, COVID-19 impacts, competitiveness and market structures, urbanization, sectoral reforms, environmental hazards, climate change, pollution, natural resource accounting and management to name a few.The book is divided into four sections, namely, The Big Picture: Evolving Perspectives; The Energy Scenario: Dilemmas and Opportunities; Sustainability Cross-Cuts: Developmental Aspects and Externality Empirics: Knowledge and Practice. The first section contains commentaries on the overarching themes of economic growth, development and sustainability. It presents some emerging perspectives on the developmental crisis that has emerged through the environmental lens with additional focus on the need for inclusion of creativity, knowhow, technology and financial resources to achieve the ambitious SDG targets. The secondsection brings out the dilemmas and opportunities in the energy sector, that has been a key player in discussions of sustainability, especially for India where significant technological advances in conventional forms of energy supply coexists with fairly low levels of per capita energy consumption and energy security is a key challenge. The section on sustainability crosscuts attempts to highlight the problems and processes of mainstreaming the sustainability question into conventional thinking through the concepts of a circular economy, green accounting techniques, institutional and governance structures, public policy and inclusive growth, amongst others. The last section presents some empirical studies on environmental externalities, the unaccounted environmental effects of economic production and consumption and finally the behavioural aspects of the stakeholders that are crucial in the larger narrative of sustainable development.This edited volume contains contributions of reputed scholars from various Indian universities, research institutions and professionals from outside academia, who are proven experts in their fields. The link between policy, practice, and well-being of the large vulnerable population of India is the major focus of enquiry that will help researchers, practitioners and policy planners in conducting further research in energy, environment, resource and linked areas of development economics. General readers with an active interest in energy, environment, and economic development are also likely to find this book an interesting read, especially in the times of several environmental challenges facing humankind.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Development Insights from India
Book Subtitle: Selected Essays in Honour of Ramprasad Sengupta
Editors: Purnamita Dasgupta, Anindita Roy Saha, Robin Singhal
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4830-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4829-5Published: 20 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4832-5Published: 20 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4830-1Published: 19 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 498
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Social Policy