Environmental Economics in Developing Countries

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.

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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