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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Environmental Scenario in India Successes and predicaments; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and maps; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword by U. Sankar; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Editors' introduction: the Indian growth story: towards a sustainable development?; Part I Agriculture sector and environment; 1 Issues and options to control agricultural nonpoint source pollution: a case study from India; 2 Economics of sustainable shrimp aquaculture in India; 3 Impact of the monsoon trawling ban on marine fisheries in Tamil Nadu |
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Part II Manufacturing and power sector and environment4 Economics of 'not' controlling pollution: a case study of industrial pollution in power Noyyal River Basin, Tamil Nadu, India; 5 Environmental costs of coal-based thermal power generation in India: notion and estimation; 6 Environmental cost of using topsoil for brick-making; 7 Environmental impacts (costs) of hydropower generation in India; Part III Service sector and the environment; 8 Growing environmental costs of urban water supplies: overcoming the challenges in implementing integrated urban water management |
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9 Municipal solid waste management in India: environmental impacts and institutional reforms10 Environmental cost of biomedical waste management: a case study of Chennai city; 11 E-waste recycling in India: bridging the formal-informal divide; Part IV Trade and environment; 12 Agriculture and environment in India: policy implications in the context of North-South trade; 13 Is India turning into a pollution haven? Evidences from trade and investment patterns; Editors' conclusion: environmental management in India: past policies, present lessons and future course; Index |
| Summary |
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, soi |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Chakraborty, Debashis
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| ISBN |
9780203137031 |
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0203137035 |
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