The economics of sustainable development the case of India /

This book provides a look at the current status and future potential of sustainable development in India. Macroeconomic developments, regional disparity and poverty situation, the trend in natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, trajectory of economic development, and conventional...

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Main Author: Surender Kumar, 1967-
Other Authors: Managi, Shunsuke., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht ; London : Springer, [2009]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Natural resource management and policy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Macroeconomic Development and the Environment
  • Economic Development and Environment
  • Environmental Regulations and Compliance in India
  • Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and the Environment
  • Industrial Development and Benefits and Costs of the Environmental Regulations
  • Total Factor Productivity of Indian Industry
  • Valuing the Benefits of Air Pollution Abatement
  • Environmental Regulation and Production Efficiency
  • Cost of Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Development
  • Win-Win Opportunities and Environmental Regulation: Test of the Porter Hypothesis
  • Industrial Water Demand and Shadow Price
  • Environmental Productivity, Oil Prices and Induced Innovations
  • Environmental Productivity and Kuznets Curve
  • A Global Analysis of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth
  • Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks
  • Energy Prices and Induced Technological Progress
  • The Road Ahead.