In the present economic scenario, India, including each of its states, needs to adopt appropriate policies that would achieve rapid economic growth while simultaneously reducing its greenhouse gas emissions for a low carbon future. As manufacturing is a crucial component of the engine that spurs...

As one of the major sources of energy, electricity plays a crucial role in all sectors of an economy; yet consumption of electricity leads to emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which in turn causes climate change. Energy, and more specifically electricity, consumption, has been growing...

Contingent Valuation is often used to measure the worth of environmental resources. A contingent market is a hypothetical market which assumes that the respondents will behave as they would in a real market, and asks them directly what they are willing to pay (WTP) for a change in the provision...

The objective of this study is to determine the nature of household consumption of goods and services and its implications in terms of differences in carbon emissions between developed and developing countries. In this study twelve consumption categories were ranked according to CO2 emission...

Policy for the mitigation of climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions often tends to target production and producers. An alternative approach may be to look at consumption, and gear policy towards changing what consumers wish to purchase and consume. As India ‘develops'...

Whilst the developed nations have used technology-forcing standards or market mechanisms (such as taxes) as their main tool for the control of transport pollution, transportation demand management (TDM) may have greater relevance for cities in poorer countries: and the choice of less polluting...

Whilst the developed nations have used technology-forcing standards or market mechanisms (such as taxes) as their main tool for the control of transport pollution, transportation demand management (TDM) may have greater relevance for cities in poorer countries: and the choice of less polluting...

The wetlands in the eastern part of Calcutta should be an environmentalist's dream. In the absence of any other provisions for the treatment of sewage, the sewage-fed fisheries in these wetlands provide the only mechanism for treating and recycling the ever-increasing quantity of sewage from...

Forest Protection Committees (FPCs) form the core of Joint Forest Management in the open access forests of West Bengal, India, and have proliferated enormously during the 1980s. However, their impact in terms of forest regeneration has been marginal. It thus appears necessary to take a good look...

The paper is a review of Environmental Economics as a new discipline in Economics. It discusses the origin of the discipline, the kinds of problems it deals with, the methodologies commonly used by it and finally, the unique difficulties it faces