Environmental Economics in Developing Countries

Issues and Challenges
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-18291-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 744 g

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks that natural capital degradation imposes on human health, economy, and society. This book studies the environmental challenges faced by developing economies in a post-COVID-19 world.

Exploring diverse case studies from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the volume discusses the impact that economic development and, recently, COVID-19 has had on the environment, ecology, and economy of these regions. It analyses nature conservation policies aimed at minimizing ecological damage arising from economic development and discusses the policy objectives of sustainable development. It also highlights the significant role that environmental economics networks have played in capacity building, framing of policies using ecological economics tools, and developing a local leadership trained in addressing local sustainability issues.

An important contribution to the study of environmental economics of the Global South, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of economics, environment, development studies, development economics, environmental policies, and South Asia studies. It will also be useful for policymakers and NGOs working in this field.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acharyya, Achiransu

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of contributors

Foreword by Partha Dasgupta

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations



Introduction and Overview: Environmental Economics in Developing Countries

Achiransu Acharyya

Part I. Environment, Ecology and Development

1. Three Theories of Growth, Environment and Poverty Nexus

M N Murty



2. Natural Capital, Pandemic and Development: Exploration of Nexus and Solutions Pushpam Kumar, Amelia Holmes and Samia Islam



3. COVID-19: A Neo-Malthusian Event? Ecological links, Challenges and Opportunities Ramprasad Sengupta and Chetana Chaudhuri



4. Electrification and Development: Empirical evidence on the effect of electricity provision on household welfare

Ujjayant Chakravorty and Martino Pelli



Part II. Economics of Nature Conservation

5. Incentive-Based Approaches to Nature Conservation

E. Somanathan



6. Forests, Carbon Sequestration, and Ecosystem Services: Are There “Two-For-One” Deals?

R. David Simpson



7. Incentives for Rural Households to Establish Tree Cover on Agricultural Land in Andhra Pradesh, India

Stella Z. Schons, Gregory S. Amacher, Kelly M. Cobourn, Nilesh Shinde and Haripriya Gundimeda



8. Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

Susmita Dasgupta and David Wheeler

Part III. Climate Change and Development

9. Regional Climate Vulnerabilities in South Asia: A Development Perspective

Anil Markandya, Muthukumara Mani, Vaideeswaran Sankaran and Prema Sai Narasimhan



10. Climate Smart Agriculture in Developing Economies: An Analysis of Strategies and Policies

Achiransu Acharyya



11. Pandemic, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Jyoti K. Parikh



Part IV. Economics of Environmental Policy

12. Environmental Policy in India: Retrospect and Recent Developments

Kanchan Chopra



13. Household waste management and the role of gender in Nepal

Mani Nepal, Marina Cauchy, Apsara Karki Nepal and Chanda Gurung Goodrich



14. Fabricated Electric Fencing: A Promising Strategy for Reducing Crop Damages from Wildlife in Bhutan

Jamyang Choda, Heman Das Lohano and Priya Shyamsundar



15. Revisiting the Regional Environmental Economics Networks: Some Lessons and Reflections

Bhim Adhikari and Lowine Hill

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Achiransu Acharyya is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Visva-Bharati (A Central University) situated in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Previously he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. His areas of teaching and research are mainly in Natural resource and Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics and Economics of Water Resources. For the past several years, he has been working on areas involving property rights and ownership of land and water, the economics of groundwater resources in agriculture, the use of energy for agriculture and sustainable development. He has got several national and international publications in journals and books to his credit. He has done several national and international research projects related to agriculture, the environment, and sustainable development. He visited the University of Oregon, USA, on a Teaching cum Research Fellowship. He has also visited the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands as a Visiting Scholar. He has received various awards for his research, including the Third Prize in the James D. Wolfensohn Essay Competition sponsored by The World Bank, Washington D.C., and the Dr. N.A. Mujumdar Prize awarded by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics. He is the Chief Editor of a water related journal titled Indian Groundwater. He is also an Associate Editor of a reputed Bengali social science journal titled Anustup.