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Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development: The Case of India [Hardback]

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  • Format: Hardback, 410 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 108 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 37 Illustrations, black and white
  • Pub. Date: 29-Dec-2020
  • Publisher: Routledge India
  • ISBN-10: 1138227102
  • ISBN-13: 9781138227101
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  • Format: Hardback, 410 pages, height x width: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 108 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 17 Halftones, black and white; 37 Illustrations, black and white
  • Pub. Date: 29-Dec-2020
  • Publisher: Routledge India
  • ISBN-10: 1138227102
  • ISBN-13: 9781138227101
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"This book analyses different perspectives around sustainable development, risk management, and managing demand across various industry sectors in India. Diverse theories and analytical methods from various disciplines as well as case studies are broughttogether to present an in-depth study. The book discusses the challenges of achieving sustainability, the role of quantitative research to assess current scenarios, and the role of policymaking to bring improvements in the Indian context. It examines thesocio-economic impacts of pursuing sustainable development in the areas of agriculture, climate change and energy, the use of environment and natural resources, health, and society and policy. It also analyses important quantitative models for sustainability policy analysis and provides case studies to understand the practical implementations of the models. This book will be a great reference manual that covers a whole gamut of analytical techniques that are useful for students, research scholars, and practitioners of economics, environmental studies, development studies, sociology, South Asian studies, and public policy among others"--

This book analyses different perspectives around sustainable development, risk management, and managing demand across various industry sectors in India.



This book analyzes different perspectives around sustainable development, risk management and managing demand across various sectors in India. Diverse theories and analytical methods from various disciplines, as well as case studies, are brought together to present an in-depth study.

The book discusses the challenges of achieving sustainability, the role of quantitative research to assess current scenarios, and the role of policy making to bring improvements in the Indian context. It examines the socioeconomic ways of pursuing sustainable development in the areas of agriculture, climate change and energy; the environment and natural resources; health and society. It also analyzes important quantitative models for sustainability policy analysis and provides case studies to understand the practical implementations of the models.

This book will be a great reference manual that covers a whole gamut of analytical techniques that are useful for students, research scholars and practitioners of economics, environmental studies, development studies, sociology, South Asian studies and public policy, among others.

List of figures
ix
List of tables
xi
List of contributors
xv
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1(6)
PART I Agriculture
7(84)
1 Risk and risk management in agriculture
9(21)
Thiagu Ranganathan
2 Assessment of water footprint under wheat cultivation in Uttar Pradesh
30(20)
Mohammad Suhail
Rakhshanda F. Fazli
3 Productive efficiency of agricultural sector in Uttar Pradesh
50(22)
Karan Singh Khati
Anup Kumar Bhandari
Deep Mukherjee
4 Agricultural productivity in Bihar and its determinants: A district-level analysis
72(19)
Amey Sapre
Mahendra Kumar Singh
Deep Mukherjee
PART II Energy and climate change
91(80)
5 Indian youth's willingness to pay for climate change policies: A contingent valuation study
93(16)
Debarun Sengupta
Abhishek Kumar
Sarani Saha
6 An advance methodology for estimating the elasticities and rebound effect
109(17)
Debalina Chakravarty
Priyanka Chatterjee
7 Index decomposition analysis of energy use in India
126(20)
Shyamasree Dasgupta
Nandini Das
Joyashree Roy
8 A framework for renewable energy policy modeling: A multistate model for India
146(25)
Anoop Singh
M. Sandeep Chowdary
PART III Environment and resources
171(80)
9 Integrating natural and human factors for sustainable development in Himachal Pradesh
173(13)
Anjan Sen
Nitin Punit
10 An input-output approach to study environmental impact
186(23)
Aparna Mishra
Kaushal Kumar Saxena
11 Investigating the existence of environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the South Asian region
209(20)
Mohd Irfan
Sarani Saha
Sanjay Kumar Singh
12 Coping with changing climate: The case of water conservation structures in Eastern India
229(22)
Bhagirath Behera
Pulak Mishra
Dil Bahadur Rahut
PART IV Health
251(76)
13 Determinants of child survival at the household level: An insight of the method of factor analysis
253(19)
Arun Kumar Sharma
Rohini Dutta
14 Access to drinking water and the health outcome
272(12)
Vikash Gautam
15 Role of information in determining the willingness to pay for health insurance
284(17)
Namrata Gulati
Basudeb Chaudhuri
16 Private and public dimensions to infectious disease risks: A case of Kolkata
301(26)
Shreejata Samajpati
PART V Society and policy
327
17 Analyzing the poverty situation in India: Using a multidimensional approach
329(25)
Ayush Agrawal
Chitwan Lalji
Debayan Pakrashi
18 Values, perception and the quality of life: An analytical framework and some critical observations from Sundarbans
354(24)
Diganta Mukherjee
Rajlakshmi Mallik
19 Sustainability of loan waiver programs in India
378(11)
Tanika Chakraborty
Aarti Gupta
20 Using path analysis to build a sustainable transport service quality model
389
Naveen B. Ramu
Anjula Gurtoo
Tanika Chakraborty is Associate Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. She is also affiliated with IZA Bonn and CESifo Munich. Her research interests are in the areas of education, labor and development economics.

Deep Mukherjee is Associate Professor in Department of Economic Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. His research interests are in the areas of agricultural economics and public policy.

Sarani Saha is Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research interests are in the fields of labor economics and environmental economics.