Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages

359 Pages·2016·5.875 MB·English

by  Nilanjan Ghosh, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Amita Shah, Manoj Panda (eds.)

Nature, Economy and Society
Nilanjan Ghosh • Pranab Mukhopadhyay
Amita Shah • Manoj Panda
Editors
Nature, Economy
and Society
Understanding the Linkages
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Editors
NilanjanGhosh AmitaShah
ObserverResearchFoundation GujaratInstituteofDevelopmentResearch
Kolkata Ahmedabad
WestBengal Gujarat
India India
PranabMukhopadhyay ManojPanda
DepartmentofEconomics InstituteofEconomicGrowth
GoaUniversity UniversityofDelhi
Panaji NewDelhi
Goa Delhi
India India
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Contents
1 EcologicalEconomics:AttheInterfaceofNature,Economy,and
Society........................................................ 1
NilanjanGhosh,PranabMukhopadhyay,AmitaShahandManojPanda
2 Nature, Economy and Society: Of Values, Valuation and
Policy-MakinginanUnequalWorld.............................. 9
KanchanChopra
3 SocialMetabolismandEnvironmentalConflictsinIndia ........... 19
JoanMartinez-Alier,LeahTemperandFedericoDemaria
4 Current Status of Environmental and Economic Accounting:
ReviewofSomeCountriesExperiencesandWayForwardforIndia . 51
M.N.MurtyandManojPanda
5 StrengtheningForestResourceValuationandAccountingSystem:
ACaseofForestResourcesofKerala,India....................... 87
KiranP.Mali,KatarSingh,P.C.KotwalandM.D.Omprakash
6 UrbanizationandWaterSupply:AnAnalysisofUnreliableWater
SupplyinBangaloreCity,India..................................113
KrishnaRaj
7 EnergeticsofIrrigationUnderSurplusRainfallConditions.........133
NandanNawn
8 GoverningFirms’CorporateEnvironmentalResponse:Success
orFailure?EvidencefromaPanelDataBasedAnalysisonSolid
WasteManagementinAgri-FoodProcessingSectorofSriLanka....163
MenukaUdugamaandU.K.Jayasinghe-Mudalige
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9 ‘Livestock for Development’ in Resource-Constrained
Environment:WouldInductionofExternalBuffaloBreedsHelp? ...177
BhagyaLaxmiS,RavindraAdusumilliandA.VijayMohanRao
10 SoilFertilityManagementinSemiaridRegions:TheSociocultural,
EconomicandLivelihoodDimensionsofFarmers’Practices—A
CaseofAndhraPradesh.........................................195
B.SureshReddy
11 IssuesonForestGovernanceinContemporaryOdisha .............225
KailasSarapandTapasKumarSarangi
12 Multifunctional Benefits of Community-Based Mangrove
RestorationinGujarat:AnAnalysis .............................243
P.K.Viswanathan
13 LinkagesBetweenEnvironmentandGlobalization:ACaseStudy
ofDevelopingCountries ........................................267
TruptiMishra
14 Can thePoor ResistCapital?Conflicts over ‘Accumulation by
Contamination’attheShipBreakingYardofAlang(India).........273
FedericoDemaria
15 Environmental Cost of Shrimp Farming in the Coastal Paddy
LandsofSouthIndia ...........................................305
UmamaheswariLeelakrishnan,NasurudeenPathusha,OmarHattab
KasimandRavirajanKarunanidhi
16 DesigningPATasaClimatePolicyinIndia:IssuesLearntfrom
EU-ETS.......................................................315
ShyamasreeDasgupta,FrankvanderSalmandJoyashreeRoy
17 PersistenceofJhumCultivation:SocialCapitalandLabourMarket .329
IndraniRoyChowdhury
18 EcologicalandSocioeconomicImpactsofProsopisjulifloraInvasion
intheSemiaridEcosystemsinSelectedVillagesofRamnadDistrict
inTamilNadu .................................................347
S.ChandrasekaranandP.S.Swamy
Contributors
Ravindra Adusumilli Watershed Support Services and Activity Network
(WASSAN),Secunderabad,India
S.Chandrasekaran DepartmentofPlantSciences,SchoolofBiologicalSciences,
MaduraiKamarajUniversity,Madurai,India
KanchanChopra FormerlyInstituteofEconomicGrowth,Delhi,India
Indrani Roy Chowdhury Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia (Cen-
tralUniversity),NewDelhi,India
Shyamasree Dasgupta Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India
Federico Demaria Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA),
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès),
Barcelona,Spain
Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
NewDelhi,India
NilanjanGhosh ObserverResearchFoundation,KolkataChapter,Kolkata,India
EnvironmentalEconomics,WorldWideFundforNature,NewDelhi,India
U. K. Jayasinghe-Mudalige Department of Agribusiness Management, Faculty
of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka,
Gonawila(NWP),SriLanka
RavirajanKarunanidhi DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics,PanditJawahar-
lal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal, Puducherry,
India
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Omar Hattab Kasim Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry,
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal,
Puducherry,India
P.C.Kotwal Ex-Faculty,IndianInstituteofForestManagement,Bhopal,Madhya
Pradesh,India
Umamaheswari Leelakrishnan Department of Agricultural Economics, Pan-
dit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal,
Puducherry,India
KiranP.Mali IndianInstituteofForestManagement,Bhopal,India
JoanMartinez-Alier InstitutdeCiènciaiTecnologiaAmbientalsICTA,Universi-
tatAutònomadeBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain
Trupti Mishra Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), Indian
InstituteofTechnology(IIT)Bombay,Mumbai,India
PranabMukhopadhyay DepartmentofEconomics,GoaUniversity,Goa,India
SouthAsianNetworkforDevelopmentandEnvironmentalEconomics,Kathmandu,
Nepal
M.N.Murty InstituteofEconomicGrowth,NewDelhi,India
NandanNawn DepartmentofPolicyStudies,TERIUniversity,NewDelhi,India
M.D.Omprakash IndianInstituteofForestManagement,Bhopal,India
ManojPanda InstituteofEconomicGrowth,NewDelhi,India
NasurudeenPathusha DepartmentofAgriculturalEconomics,PanditJawaharlal
NehruCollegeofAgricultureandResearchInstitute,Karaikal,Puducherry,India
KrishnaRaj CenterforEconomicStudiesandPolicy(CESP),InstituteforSocial
andEconomicChange,Bangalore,India
A.VijayMohanRao DepartmentofAnimalHusbandry,Hyderabad,India
B.Suresh Reddy DivisionforSustainable Development Studies, CentreforEco-
nomicandSocialStudies,Hyderabad,India
JoyashreeRoy JadavpurUniversity,Kolkata,India
Contributors ix
BhagyaLaxmiS WatershedSupportServicesandActivityNetwork(WASSAN),
Secunderabad,India
Frank van der Salm Utrecht University School of Economics, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
TapasKumarSarangi InstituteofEconomicGrowth(IEG),NewDelhi,India
KailasSarap NationalInstituteofRuralDevelopment(NIRD),Hyderabad,India
AmitaShah GujaratInstituteofDevelopmentResearch,Ahmedabad,India
KatarSingh ExDirector,InstituteofRuralManagementAnand,Gujarat,India
P.S.Swamy DepartmentofPlantSciences,SchoolofBiologicalSciences,Madu-
raiKamarajUniversity,Madurai,India
Leah Temper Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals ICTA, Universitat
AutònomadeBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain
Menuka Udugama Department of Agribusiness Management, Faculty of Agri-
culture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Gonawila
(NWP),SriLanka
P.K.Viswanathan GujaratInstituteofDevelopmentResearch,Ahmedabad,India
About the Editors
Nilanjan Ghosh is a Senior Fellow (Professor), Observer Research Foundation,
Kolkata Chapter, India. He is also a Senior Advisor–Environmental Economics,
World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature, New Delhi, India. Prior to joining ORF,
he served as the Chief Economist at the Multi Commodity Exchange of India
Limited and a senior research professional at The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI),NewDelhi.HeisalsoavisitingfellowatDepartmentofPoliticalScience,
School of Social Sciences, Växjö University (now Linnaeus University), Växjö,
Sweden.Anaturalresourceeconomistandeconometricianbytraining,heobtained
his doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata.
Hehasbeenworkinginthedomainsofecologicaleconomics,waterresources,and
commodity derivative markets, conducting his research by combining frameworks
of neoclassical economics and institutions. His publications include 6 books, 30-
odd peer-reviewed research papers in top international journals (like Water Policy,
Conservation and Society, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Index Invest-
ing, Economic & Political Weekly). He was also the Vice President of the Indian
Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) during 2012–2014, and delivered the
presidentialaddressattheseventhINSEEbiennialconferencein2013.
PranabMukhopadhyay isaprofessorandformerheadofthedepartmentofeco-
nomics at the Goa University, India. He worked as an environmental economist
with the South Asian Network for Development & Environmental Economics
(SANDEE), based at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN,
Nepal), Kathmandu in 2006–2008. He is a SANDEE Fellow and continues to
be actively involved with the Network’s activities. He has published in journals
suchasEcologyandSociety,Economic&PoliticalWeekly,Environment&Devel-
opment Economics, and some edited volumes. His work in environmental eco-
nomics focuses on common property resources and institutional economics. He
wastheSecretaryoftheIndianSocietyforEcologicalEconomics(INSEE)during
2012–2014.
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