This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive
coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment,
development and sustainability. It is designed to bring in a host
of perspectives highlighting the synergies and the trade-offs in
this debate, showcasing research along with policy implications of
putting research into use. The global discussion on sustainability
paints the broad canvas for this book. This volume aims to probe
some contemporary issues that will help in understanding the
sustainability narrative in India. The topics span over a host of
questions on energy, environment, natural resources and related
constituents of development. The discourse further extends to the
role of economic modelling, public policy debates, political
intervention, stakeholders' response, community participation and
so on. The discussions are often based on empirical support, review
of existing literature as well as policy analysis. With an ultimate
aim to understand the overall development narrative of the people
of India, the discourse takes in its ambit the nuances of resource
utilisation, economic growth, COVID-19 impacts, competitiveness and
market structures, urbanization, sectoral reforms, environmental
hazards, climate change, pollution, natural resource accounting and
management to name a few. The book is divided into four sections,
namely, The Big Picture: Evolving Perspectives; The Energy
Scenario: Dilemmas and Opportunities; Sustainability Cross-Cuts:
Developmental Aspects and Externality Empirics: Knowledge and
Practice. The first section contains commentaries on the
overarching themes of economic growth, development and
sustainability. It presents some emerging perspectives on the
developmental crisis that has emerged through the environmental
lens with additional focus on the need for inclusion of creativity,
knowhow, technology and financial resources to achieve the
ambitious SDG targets. The second section brings out the dilemmas
and opportunities in the energy sector, that has been a key player
in discussions of sustainability, especially for India where
significant technological advances in conventional forms of energy
supply coexists with fairly low levels of per capita energy
consumption and energy security is a key challenge. The section on
sustainability crosscuts attempts to highlight the problems and
processes of mainstreaming the sustainability question into
conventional thinking through the concepts of a circular economy,
green accounting techniques, institutional and governance
structures, public policy and inclusive growth, amongst others. The
last section presents some empirical studies on environmental
externalities, the unaccounted environmental effects of economic
production and consumption and finally the behavioural aspects of
the stakeholders that are crucial in the larger narrative of
sustainable development. This edited volume contains contributions
of reputed scholars from various Indian universities, research
institutions and professionals from outside academia, who are
proven experts in their fields. The link between policy, practice,
and well-being of the large vulnerable population of India is the
major focus of enquiry that will help researchers, practitioners
and policy planners in conducting further research in energy,
environment, resource and linked areas of development economics.
General readers with an active interest in energy, environment, and
economic development are also likely to find this book an
interesting read, especially in the times of several environmental
challenges facing humankind.
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