Environment & development : essays in honor of Dr U. Sankar /: essays in honor of Dr U. Sankar. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Environment and development (Sage)
• Further Information: Note: Edited by K.R. Shanmugam, K.S. Kavi Kumar.
• Editors: Shanmugam, K. R; Kavi Kumar, K. S
• Other Names: Sankar, U honoree.
• Contents: Foreword by C. Rangarajan; Acknowledgements; Introduction and Overview - K R Shanmugam and K S Kavi Kumar; I. ENVIRONMENT; Estimating the Cost of Environmental Degradation in India - Muthukumara Mani, Anil Markandya, Aarsi Sagar, Elena Strukova and Gaurav Joshi; Discount Rate for Environmental Health Risks: A Comparative Study - K.R. Shanmugam; Low Carbon Goods and Services: International Cooperation on Technological Innovation, Transfer and Funding Needs - Kaliappa Kalirajan, Anbumozhi Venkatachalam and Thanh Nguyen; Carbon Intensity and Labour Intensity in India - Brinda Viswanathan and Ishwarya Balasubramanian; Natural Solutions to Environmental Issues: The Case of the Textile Sector - Badri Narayanan G; Are Fiscal Subsidies Harmful for the Environment? - Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty; Climate Change Burden Sharing: A Reappraisal of the Equity Debate - Anubhab Pattanayak and K S Kavi Kumar; Economic Value of Water Using Hedonic Price Method - Haripirya Gundimeda and Vinish Kathuria; Assessing On-farm Conservation and Farmer’s Willingness to Participate: A Case Study of Minor - Millet Sukanya Das, Prabhakaran T Raghu and E D Israel Oliver King; Economic Analysis of Irrigation Institutions: A Case Study - Durba Biswas and L Venkatachalam; Improving Tiger Conservation in India - Zareena Begum I and Amanat K Gill; II. DEVELOPMENT; Importance of Excess Female Mortality in Explaining Lowness of the Sex Ratio in India - D Jayaraj; Subsidized Credit vs Public Works Programme in Rural India - Kausik Chaudhuri and Debanjali Dasgupta; Budgetary Allocation on Education: A Study of Inter-state Imbalances - C Bhujanga Rao and D K Srivastava; Health Outcome Efficiency of the Indian States - J Prachithaand and K R Shanmugam; The Software Sector in Bangalore and Hyderabad - V N Balasubramanyam and Ahalya Balasubramanyam; Index;
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (516 pages)
• Subjects: 333.70954; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- India; Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- India; Sustainable development -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789351506485; 9351506487
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