Description
India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc. The consequent growth implications are obvious as far as the numbers like GDP growth rate and Per Capita GDP trend are concerned, but how sustainable the associated development is with respect to resource management and environmental governance?
This book captures the economy-wide impacts of various activities on environment in India. The environmental impacts on water, air, soil quality and human health are captured through case studies from different parts of India. Analyzing separately the concern areas within agriculture (cultivation, aquaculture), manufacturing (industrial pollution, power generation), services (waste management, bio-medical waste, e-waste recycling) and external sector (agricultural trade, FDI inflow, trade in waste products) performance of India, the book attempts to find an answer to that crucial question. The methodology adopted to capture the environmental impacts of various economic activities is derived from the relevant branches like environmental economics, agricultural economics, and water resources economics. The book, focusing on particular sectors, indicates the concern areas and possible ways for enhancing environmental governance.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty Part 1. Agricultural Sector and Environment 1. Issues and Options to Control Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution, Sacchidananda Mukherjee 2. Economics of Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture in India, Ramachandra Bhatta 3. Impact of the Monsoon Trawling Ban on Marine Fisheries in Tamil Nadu, Ierene Francis Part 2. Manufacturing and Power Sector and Environment 4. Economics of 'Not' Controlling Pollution, L. Venkatachalam 5. Environmental Costs of Coal-based Thermal Power Generation in India, Shrabani Mukherjee 6. Environmental Cost of Using Top-soil for Brick Making, Vinish Kathuria and R. Balasubramanian 7. Environmental Impacts (Costs) of Hydropower Generation in India, Bimlesh Kumar and Achanta Ramakrishna Rao Part 3. Service Sector and the Environment 8. Growing Environmental Costs of Urban Water Supplies, M. Dinesh Kumar 9. Municipal Solid Waste Management in India, Prasenjit Sarkhel 10. Environmental Cost of Biomedical Waste Management, S. Srividhya and Paul P. Appasamy 11. E-waste Recycling by Bridging the Formal-Informal Divide, Ashish Chaturvedi, Rachna Arora and Ulrike Killguss Part 4. Trade and Environment 12. Agriculture and Environment in India, Amita Shah 13. Is India turning into A Pollution Haven?, Debashis Chakraborty Conclusion, Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty
