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SANDEE Researchers

India

With 1.2 billion people as of 2014, India is the most populous country in South Asia and the second most populous country in the world. India spans 3.3 million square kilometers and shares a border with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Burma. India is the world's fourth largest economy. The GDP measured $1.86 trillion in 2014. The GNI per capita of $1,550 (2014) varies widely from a poor state like Bihar to the relatively wealthy Maharashtra. India's economic growth began in the early 1990's and continues, driven in large part by the success of the high-tech service industry. Slightly less than half of the work force works in agriculture; India is a net exporter of food. The country's large, young workforce increases by eight million people each year. Rural-urban migration is some ten million people annually. Of the working-age population, less than 10 percent have completed a secondary education. Despite its economic reforms and successes, one-third of the world's poor (400 million people) live in India. An additional 53 million who are no longer classified as living in poverty are in danger of regression. Population growth in India's poorer states has created a situation where poverty rates there are 3-4 times higher than the wealthier states. Environmentally, India's major issues include aquifer depletion, water scarcity, soil erosion, declining forest quality and other stresses from urbanization and private sector development. The growing population also strains natural resources. India faces continued air pollution from vehicles and industry as well as water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural chemicals.

Mr. Abhijit Banerji
Assistant Professor
Delhi School of Economics
SANDEE Grant Period:
2004-2007
SANDEE Publications :
Banerji, A., J. V. Meenakshi and G. Khanna (2006), ‘ Groundwater Irrigation in North India: Institutions and Markets’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 19-06
Banerji, A., J. V. Meenakshi and G. Khanna (2006), ‘Ground Water Irrigation and Sustainability? Water Markets, Institutions and Power Supply in Northern India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 18-07
Other Publications :
Banerji, A., G. Khanna, and J. V. Meenakshi, (2010), ‘Social Contracts, Markets and Efficiency — Groundwater Irrigation in North India’, Working papers 183, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
Website :
www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/Faculty%20Profiles/July2014/Economics/July2014_Economics_Banerji.pdf

Mr. Allwin Jesudasan
ATREE
Address :
Banglore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2014 to 15-09-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Assessing Adaptive capacity of farmers to water shortage in the Tamarabani River Basin (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Political economics of conservation
Ecosystem services
Conservation finance and impacts of climate change on livelihoods and biodiversity

Mr. Amalendu Jyotisihi
Professor
Amrita School of Business, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham (University)
Address:
Banglaore, Karnataka, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
05-04-2015 to 01-12-2016
SANDEE Publications :
What Role Property Rights Play in Informal Mining-Based Livelihoods? Investigating the Context of Gold mining in Nilgiri-Wayanad Region of India (Ongoing Research Project)
Other Publications :
Jyotisihi, A. (2015), ‘ Would you like some Gold with your Tea?’, Blogpost in SANDEE Blog, April 2015
Jyotisihi, A. (2015), ‘ Informal Gold Mining in Nilgiriwayanad Region of India’, A report prepared for ‘Going for Gold: Safe Livelihoods for informal Gold Mminers in South and Southeast Asia’, ARC Linkage Project led by Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Dr Keith Barney
Current Research Area/ Interests :
Institutional Economics
Natural Resources Management
Ecological and Economic History
Website :
www.amrita.edu/faculty/dr-amalendu-jothishi

Ms. Amita Shah
Professor
Gujarat Institute for Development Research
Address :
Gota, Ahmedabad
SANDEE Grant Period:
02-12-2000 to 02-06-2002
SANDEE Publications :
Shah, A. (2005), ‘Land Degradation and Migration in a Dry Land Region in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 10-05
Shah, A. (2005), ‘Understanding Migration – Do the Commons Matter?’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 10 – 05
Other Publications:
Shah, A. (2006), ‘Exploring Sustainable Production Systems for Agriculture: Implications for Employment and Investment under North-South Trade Scenario’, Ecological Economics, Vol.59: 237-241.
Shah, A. and D. C. Sah (2005), ‘Migration in Remote Tribal Areas: Evidence from South Western Madhya Pradesh’, Indian Journal of Agriculture Economics, Vol. 60 (2): 184-204.
Shah A. (2002) ‘Uneven Development and Migration: Insights from Micro Initiatives’, in Ghanshyam Shah, Mario Rutten and Hein Steefkerk (eds.), Development and Deprivation in Gujarat (in Honour of Jan Breman), Sage Publications, New Delhi.
Shah, A. (2001), ‘Water Scarcity Induced Migration: Can Watershed Projects Help?’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI, No. 35, September, 2001.

Ms. Amrita Ghatak
Faculty
Gujarat Institute of Development Research
Address :
Gujarat, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2013 to 31-08-2015
SANDEE Publications :
Environmental Regulations and Compliance in the Textile Dyes Sector of Gujarat, India (Ongoing Research)
Current Research Area/ Interests :
Industrial pollution
Environmental regulations and compliance
Renewable energy and sustainable development
Occupational and environmental health and its relation with labour productivity and labour supply.

Ms. Aparna Krishnan
Self-Employed
Adducense Innovations
Address :
Mumbai, India
SANDEE Publications :
Bhagirathi, A. K. (2005), ‘Using Traditional Knowledge for Commercial Innovations: Incentives, Bargaining and Community Profits’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 11-05
Bhagirathi, A. K. (2005), ‘Sharing Traditional Knowledge for Commerce – the Power of Bargaining Strength’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 9 -05
Other Publications:
Intellectual Property Rights: Options Assessment,” Chapter in Economic Studies of Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge, Ed. by Nirmal Sengupta, Indian Economic Association Trust for Research and Education, New Delhi, India, Chapter 8, pg 171, 2007.
Current Research Area/Interests:
Poverty and Development Policy research (particularly in scale up of successful innovations in health, education, renewable energy, skills training, governance of large public programmes)

Mr. Arabinda Mishra
Senior Social Scientist
ICIMOD
Address :
Khumaltar, Nepal
SANDEE Grant Period:
12-07-2001 to 12-01-2003
SANDEE Publications :
Mishra, A. (2008), ‘Determinants of Fuelwood Use in Rural Orissa: Implications for Energy Transition’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 37- 08
Mishra, A. (2008), ‘Fuel for the clean energy debate? A study of fuelwood collection and purchase in rural India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 34 – 08
Other Publications :

  1. Mishra A. (2008), ‘Is the state passé? Competing domains in Forestry in Orissa’, in Promise, Trust and Evolution (eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  2. Sud R, A Mishra, N Varma, S Bhadwal (2015), ‘Adaptation policy and practice in densely populated glacier-fed river basins of South Asia: a systematic review’, Regional Environmental Change, 15(5): 825-836, Springer (DOI 10.1007/s10113-014-0711-z)
  3. Singh S, A Mishra (2014), ‘Deforestation induced costs on the drinking water supplies of Mumbai metropolitan, India’, Global Environmental Change, Elsevier. (DOI information: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.020)
  4. Singh, S. and A Mishra (2014), ‘Spatiotemporal analysis of the effects of forest covers on stream water quality in Western Ghats of peninsular India’, Journal of Hydrology, 519: 214-224. Elsevier B.V. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.07.009)
  5. Moors E, T. Singh, C. Siderius, S. Balakrishnan, A. Mishra (2013), ‘Climate change and waterborne diarrhoea in northern India: Impacts and adaptation strategies’, Sci Total Environ (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.07.02
  6. Singh S, A Mishra (2012), ‘Spatiotemporal analysis of the effects of forest covers on water yield in the Western Ghats of peninsular India’, Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier B.V

Current Research Area/ Interests :
Climate change – vulnerability assessment, adaptation policy and practice, economics of climate change;
Energy access – renewable energy systems, rural electrification, co-benefits and their valuation;
Ecosystems and ecosystem services – PES, community institutions

Ms. Aradhna Aggarwal
Senior Fellow
National council of Applied Economic Research
Address :
New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2012 to 01-09-2014
SANDEE Publications :
Aquisition of technological capabilities through the Clean Development Mechanism: Some quantitative explorations (Ongoing Research Project)

Mr. Ashokankur Datta
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
Address :
Gautam Buddha Nagar, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2013 to 31-08-2015
SANDEE Publications :
NREGA and Firewood Consumption: Estimating the ecological impact of NREGA on Indian forests (Ongoing Research Project)

Mr. Bibhu Prasad Nayak
Associate Fellow
The Energy and Resources Institute
Address :
IHC Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-08-2011 to 15-02-2013
SANDEE Publications :
Effectiveness of Public Expenditure for Tiger Conservation in India: A Country Level Study (Ongoing Research Project)

Ms. Brinda Viswanathan
Associate Professor
Madras School of Economics
Address :
Gandhi Mandapam Road, Chennai, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-08-2011 to 01-06-2012
SANDEE Publications :
Viswanathan,B., K.S.Kumar (2014), ‘Weather Variability, Agriculture and Rural Migration: Evidence from State and District Level Migration in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No.83-14
Current Research Area/ Interests :
Development Economics

Mr. Chandan Singha
PhD Scholar
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
Address :
New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-02-2012 to 15-02-2014
SANDEE Publications :
Revisiting Valuation of Soil Conservation Benefit of a watershed in Darjeeling, India (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Appied Econometrics, natural Resource and Environment Economics

Mr. Chandrasekhar Bahinipati
Assistant Professor
Gujarat Institute of Development Research
Address :
Gota, Ahmdebad, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2014 to 15-09-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Will Climate change adaptation enhance farm productivity? A study of micro-irrigation systems (MIS) in Gujarat, India (Ongoing Research Project)
Other Publications :

  1. Bahinipati, C. S. and L Venkatachalam, (2015), ‘What drives farmers to adopt farm-level adaptation practices to climate extremes: Empirical evidence from Odisha, India’, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, doi: 10.1016.j.ijdrr.2015.08.010.
  2. Bahinipati, C. S., U. Rajasekar, A. Acharya, and M. Patel, (2015), ‘Flood-induced economic loss and damage to the textile industry in Surat city, India’, Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series 26, International Institute of Environment and Development, U.K.
  3. Bahinipati, C. S., (2015), ‘Determinants of Farm-Level Adaptation Diversity to Cyclone and Flood: Insights from a Farm Household-Level Survey in Eastern India’, Water Policy, 17(4): 742-761.
  4. Bahinipati, C. S. and U. Patnaik, (2015), ‘The damages from climatic extremes in India: Do disaster specific and generic adaptation measures matter?’, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 17(1): 157-177.
  5. Bahinipati, C. S. (2014), ‘Assessment of vulnerability to cyclones and floods in Odisha, India: A District-level analysis’, Current Science, 107(12): 1997-2007,
  6. Bahinipati, C. S. and L Venkatachalam, (2014), ‘Role of climatic risks and socio-economic factors in influencing the economic impact of climatic extremes: A normalization study in the context of Odisha, India’, Regional Environmental Change, doi: 10.1007/s10113-014-0735-4.

Current Research Area/ Interests :
Climate Change Economics, Risk and Vulnerability, Loss and Damage
Natural Resource Management, Development Economics

Mr. D. Suresh Kumar
Professor
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
SANDEE Publications :
Suresh, D. Kumar (2007), ‘Can Participatory Watershed Management be sustained? Evidence from Southern India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 22-07
Suresh, D. Kumar (2007), ‘Why does Community Participation fail after the State Withdraws? Understanding Watershed Management in Tamil Nadu, India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 21-07
Other Publications:
Devarajulu, S.K. (2011), ‘An Inquiry into Collective action and Sustainable participatory Watershed management: Evidence from Southern India’, Water International 36 (3): 370-385.
Devarajulu, S.K., K.Palanisami (2009),’An Economic Inquiry into Collective Action and Household Behaviour in Watershed Management’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics 64(1): 108-123, 2009.
Current Research Area/ Interests :
Natural Resource Economics
Climate Change

Mr. Debabrata Lahiri
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology
Address :
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
18-07-2001 to 18-07-2003
SANDEE Publications :
A Study of Environmental Pollution from Prawn Farming in Coastal Areas of West Bengal (SANDEE Research Project)

Mr. E. Somanathan
Executive Director
SANDEE
Address :
ICIMOD, Nepal
SANDEE Grant Period:
14-06-2002 to 14-06-2004
SANDEE Publications :
Somanathan, E. and J. Jalan (2005), ‘Danger Dirty Water! An Assessment of the Importance of Information in Improving Water use Hygiene’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 8 – 05
Somanathan, E. and J. Jalan (2005), ‘The importance of being informed: experimental evidence on the demand for environmental quality’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 8 – 04
Somanathan, E., J. Jalan and S. Choudhuri (2004), ‘Adoption of Safe Drinking Water Practices: Does Awareness of Health Effects Matter?’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 4 – 04
Jalan, J., E. Somanathan and S. Choudhuri (2003), ‘Awareness and the Demand for Environmental Quality: Drinking Water in Urban India, SANDEE Working Paper No. 4-03
Other Publications:
Working Papers
Climate Policy and Innovation in the Absence of Commitment, with Ashokankur Datta.

Published Papers
If you do not have access to a paper below, you can e-mail me (som [at] isid.ac.in).
  1. Impact of Biometric Identification-based transfers with Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Economic and Political Weekly, 46(21): 77-80, May 21, 2011.
  2. Effects of Information on Environmental Quality in Developing Countries. Review of Environmental Economics and  Policy, 4(2): 275-292, Summer 2010.
  3. What Do We Expect from an International Climate Agreement? A Perspective from a Low-income Country in Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins (Eds), Climate Change Policy Beyond Kyoto, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  4. Climate change: Challenges facing India’s poor with Rohini Somanathan, Economic and Political Weekly, 44(31): 51-58, August 1, 2009. (Erratum: The labels in Figure 3a are interchanged.)
  5. Decentralization for cost-effective conservation with R. Prabhakar and B.S. Mehta, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 106(11): 4143-4147, March 17, 2009. Download the data and programs for this paper.
  6. Awareness and the Demand for Environmental Quality: Survey Evidence on Drinking Water in Urban India with Jyotsna Jalan and Saraswata Chaudhuri, Environment and Development Economics, 14(6): 665-692, December 2009. Download the data.
  7. Discrimination in an Elite Labour Market? Job Placements at the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad with Sujoy Chakravarty, the Economic and Political Weekly, 43(44): 45-50, November 1, 2008.
  8. The Importance of Being Informed: Experimental Evidence on Demand for Environmental Quality with Jyotsna Jalan, Journal of Development Economics, 87(1): 14-28, August 2008. Download the questionnaires, data, and programs for this paper.
  9. Biodiversity, pp. 32-35 in the Oxford Companion to Economics in India, edited by Kaushik Basu, Oxford University Press, 2007.
  10. Collective Action for Forest Conservation: Does Heterogeneity Matter? with R. Prabhakar and B.S. Mehta, pp. 234-245 in Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability edited by Jean-Marie Baland, Pranab Bardhan and Samuel Bowles, Princeton University Press, November 2006.
  11. How Degraded are Himalayan Forests? with R. Prabhakar and B.S. Mehta, Current Science, 91(1): 61-67, July 10, 2006. Comments and our response, 92(4): 418-420, February 25, 2007. Training sites used for image classification in the paper are available on the India Biodiversity Portal.
  12. Measuring the marginal value of water and the elasticity of demand for water in agriculture, with R. Ravindranath, Economic and Political Weekly, 41(26): 2712-2715, June 30-July 7, 2006.
  13. Environmental Policy Instruments in Developing Countries with Thomas Sterner, pp. 217-244 in Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options, edited by Ramon Lopez and Michael A. Toman, Oxford University Press, June 2006.
  14. A Simple Model of Collective Action with Rajiv Sethi, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54(3): 725-747, April 2006.
  15. Valuing Lives Equally: Distributional Weights for Welfare Analysis. Economics Letters, 90:122-125, January 2006.
  16. Inequality and Environmental Policy, in Environment, Inequality, and Collective Action, edited by Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini, and Alessandro Vercelli, Routledge: New York, January 2006.
  17. Norm Compliance and Strong Reciprocity, with Rajiv Sethi, pp. 229-250 in Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life edited by Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, and Ernst Fehr, MIT Press, 2005.
  18. The Evolution of Honesty, with Paul H. Rubin, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 54(1): 1-17, May 2004.
  19. “What can we learn from Cultural Group Selection and Co-evolutionary Models?” with Rajiv Sethi, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 53(1): 105-108, January 2004.
  20. Understanding Reciprocity with Rajiv Sethi, in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 50(1): 1-27, January 2003.
  21. Can Growth Ease Class Conflict? in Economics and Politics, March 2002, 14(1): 65-81.
  22. Empowering Local Government: Lessons from Europe in the Economic and Political Weekly, October 13, 2001, 36(41), pp 3935-40.
  23. Preference Evolution and Reciprocity with Rajiv Sethi in the Journal of Economic Theory, April 2001.
  24. Humans as Factors of Production: An Evolutionary Analysis with Paul H. Rubin in Managerial and Decision Economics, November-December 1998.
  25. Evolutionary Stability of Pure-Strategy Equilibria in Finite Games in Games and Economic Behavior, October-November 1997.
  26. The Evolution of Social Norms in Common Property Resource Use with Rajiv Sethi in the American Economic Review, September 1996, pp 766-88.
  27. Deforestation, Property Rights and Incentives in Central Himalaya in the Economic and Political Weekly, January 26,1991, 26(4), Political Economy Supplement 37-46.

Book Reviews
“Understanding India’s Economic Growth.” Review of Pulapre Balakrishnan’s Economic Growth in India: History and Prospect. Economic and Political Weekly, March 19,2011, 46(12), 29-31.

Current Research Area/ Interests :
Environment and development economics with a focus on India.
Evolutionary models of behavior

Ms. Eshita Gupta
Lecturer
University of Dhaka
Address :
Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2015 to 31-12-2016
SANDEE Publications :
The Distributional Implication of Solar Water Pumping Program for Ground Water Irrigation in Rajasthan (Ongoing Research Project)
Other Publications:

  1. Gupta, E. (2012), ‘Global warming and electricity demand in the rapidly growing city of Delhi: A semi-parametric variable coefficient approach’, Energy Economics 34.5 (2012): 1407-1421.
  2. Gupta, E.(2008), ‘ Oil vulnerability index of oil-importing countries’, Energy policy 36.3 (2008): 1195-1211

Current Research Area/Interests:
Energy economics, Environmental economics and Development economics.

Mr. Gautam Gupta
Professor
Department of Economics, Jadavpur University
Address :
Kolkata, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
09-06-2008 to 09-03-2010
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Gupta, G. and V. Mukherjee (2011), ‘Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Waste-Water Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 62 -11
  2. Gupta, G. and V. Mukherjee (2011), ‘Wastewater Irrigation, Heavy Metals and the Profitability of Rice Cultivation – Investigating the East Calcutta Wetlands in India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 57 – 11

Other Publications:
Mukherjee, V., Abhishek Das, Anirban Akhand and Gautam Gupta (2013), ‘Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Wastewater Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands’, Ecological Economics, Volume 93, Pages 292-300

Ms. Harini Nagendra
Professor
School of Development, Azim Premji University
Address :
PES Institute of Technology Campus, Hosur Road, Bangalore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
20-09-2011 to 20-09-2013
SANDEE Publications :
Conservation in a tightly coupled, fragile social-ecological system: investigating community inputs and forest outcomes in central India (SANDEE Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Impacts of urbanization on biodiversity, land use and ecosystem services
Collective action for sustainable governance of forests, lakes and urban parks
Patterns and processes of land use/land cover change
Remote sensing for multi-scale biodiversity assessment and monitoring

Mr. Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Address :
Indian Institute of Science campus, Bangalore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-08-2013 to 14-08-2015
SANDEE Publications :
Remote village electrification in India through solar home system assessment and options (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Energy, Sustainable Use of Resources, Economic Measurement, and Human Development.

Ms. Indira Devi
Professor
Centre for Excellence in Environmental Economics,Kerala Agricultural University
Address :
Trissur, Kerala, India
SANDEE Publications:
Indira Devi, P. (2007), ‘Pesticide Use in the Rice Bowl of Kerala: Health Costs and Policy Options’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 20-07
Indira Devi, P. (2007), ‘Facing Hazards at Work: Agricultural Workers and Pesticide Exposure in Kuttanad, Kerala, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 19-07
Other Publications:
Devi, I. (2010), ‘Pesticides in Agriculture – A Boon or Curse’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLV N. 26-27.
Devi, P. I. (2009), ‘Pesticide Application and Occupational Health Risks among Farm Workers in Kerala-An Analysis using Dose Response Function’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 64(4):557-572.
Devi, P. I. (2009), ‘Health risk Perceptions, Awareness and Handling Behaviour of Pesticides by Farm Workers’, Agricultural Economics Research Journal, 22(9):263-268.

Ms. Indrila Guha
Principal
Basanti Devi College
Address :
Kolkata, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
20-12-2004 to 20-06-2006
SANDEE Publications :
Guha, I. and S.Ghosh (2007), ‘Does Tourism Contribute to Local Livelihood? A Case Study of Tourism,Poverty and Conservation in the Indian Sundarbans’, SANDEE Working Paper No.26-07
Guha, I. and S.Ghosh (2009),’A Glimpse of the Tiger:How much are Indians Willing to pay for it?’, SANDEE Working Paper No.39-09
Guha, I. and S. Ghosh (2009), ‘Valuing the Land of Tigers ? What Indian Visitors are Willing to Pay’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 35-09
Other Publications:

  1. Roy C. and I. Guha (2013), ‘Climate Change induced Migration: A Case Study from Indian Sundarbans’, Acumen, Marian Journal of Social Work, Vol 5, Sept 2013ISSN 0975-6981
  2. Guha, I., C. Roy, R. Banerji, J. Roy and S. Bhattacharya (2012), ‘Adaptation in case of Inundation of Islands: An Exploratory Study from Indian Sundarbans’, Mukhopadhyay. A and Ghosh. S.N.(edited),Climate Security: Perceptions, Challenges and Beyond, UGC Academic Staff College, University Of Calcutta.
  3. Guha, I. (2011), ‘Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal?’ (With Dr. Santadas Ghosh) in Haque A. K. E, Murty M. N. and Shyamsundar P (ed.) Valuing the Invaluable: The Practice of Environmental Valuation in South Asia, SANDEE (Cambridge University Press)
  4. Guha, I. (2009), ‘Tourism, local livelihood, and conservation: a case study in Indian Sundarbans” (With Dr. Santadas Ghosh) in Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian (ed) Payment for Ecosystem Services, Oxford University Press (New Delhi).
  5. Guha, I. and T. K. Das (2003), ‘Economics of Man Animal Conflict – A Lesson for Wildlife Conservation’ Publications (in collaboration with DSA Centre for Regional Economic Studies, Jadavpur University), Kolkata, India. (isbn10: 8187500158, isbn13: 9788187500155) classificationQL84.5.I4

Current Research Area/Interests:
Sea level rise and displacement of residents in a island in Sundarbans Coastal
Ecosystem and Changing Economic Activities: Challenges for Sustainability Transition along Chinese and South Asian Coasts
Website:
http://www.basantidevicollege.edu.in

Mr. Jogasankar Mahaprastha
Lecturer
Christ College
Address :
Cuttack, Orissa, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
29-03-2008 to 29-10-2009
SANDEE Publications :
Economics of Urban Drainage system: A case study of Cuttack city, Orissa, India (SANDEE Project)

Ms. Joyashree Roy
Professor of Economics
Jadavpur University
Address :
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
12-07-2001 to 12-07-2003
SANDEE Publications :
Roy, J. (2007), ‘Estimating the Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from West Bengal’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 21- 07
Roy, J. (2007), ‘Counting the Cost of Water Pollution – an Investigation into Arsenic Poisoning in West Bengal’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 20 – 07
Other Publications:

  1. Roy, Joyashree ( 2008), ‘Economic benefits of arsenic removal from ground water -A case study from West Bengal, India’, Science of the Total Environment-2008: 397 (1), pp.1-12
  2. Chakraborty, D; and Joyashree Roy (2015), ‘Ecological Footprint of Paperboard and Paper production Unit in India’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, August, Vol 17, issues 4, pp 909-921. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-014-9563-4
  3. Dasgupta S, Joyashree Roy (2015), ‘Understanding technological progress and input price as drivers of energy demand in manufacturing industries in India’, Energy Policy, Volume 83, August 2015, Pages 1-13.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151500138X
  4. Sebak Jana; Joyashree Roy; Buddhi Marambe; Jeevika Weerahewa; Gamini Pushpakumara; Pradeepa Silva; Md. Giashuddin Miah; Ranjith Punyawardena; Sarath Premalal (2015) , ‘Home gardens in the Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal in India: a land use system with multiple benefits’, International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (IJESD), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. pp.191 – 206. DOI: 10.1504/IJESD.2015.068606.
    http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=68606
  5. Roy Joyashree; Rupsa Bhowmick; Manisha Dolui (2014), ‘Actions for Sustainable Development: Evidence Based Assessment for the State of West Bengal’, Arthaniti 13 (1-2)/2014/1. http://www.econcaluniv.ac.in/Arthanitiweb/book/2014/JRRBMD.pdf
  6. Susan E. Amrose, Siva R.S. Bandaru, Caroline Delaire, Case M. van Genuchten, Amit Dutta, Anupam DebSarkar, Christopher Orr, Joyashree Roy, Abhijit Das, Ashok J. Gadgil (2014), ‘Electro-chemical arsenic remediation: Field trials in West Bengal’, Science of the Total Environment, 488-489 (2014) 539-546.
  7. Das. A, Joyashree Roy (2013), ‘Socio-Economic Fallout of Arsenicosis in West Bengal: A Case Study in Murshidabad District’, Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 67(2). pp 273-285.
    http://isas.org.in/jisas/jsp/onlinelatestissue.jsp or http://isas.org.in/jisas/jsp/volume/vol67/issue2/08%20-%20Joyashree%20Roy.pdf

Current Research Area/Interests:
Broad area of research is Resource and Environmental Economics. Major contributions are in the field of Energy demand modeling. The field of application ranges from Non renewables to Renewable resources, urban to rural problems. The bias is more towards industry sector and econometric model building, statistical analysis especially for deriving policy implication for developing countries with special reference to the Indian economy. Data base ranging from primary data from field survey to secondary data and macro data such as input-output tables have been used at various stages of research and publications. Focus of current research is more towards Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change, Water resource management and multidisciplinary research on sustainable development, Risks and Vulnerabilities in Coastal Ecosystems, social embedding of new innovation.

Ms. Kadambari Anantram
Head-Applied Research
Phicus Social Solutions
Address :
Bengaluru
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-08-2011 to 15-08-2013
SANDEE Publications :
Taxing the tiger? : Case Studies from Southern India (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
My educational qualifications and experience lie within the ambit of natural resource management and development studies. A particular interest of mine, has also been working with a multiplicity of stakeholders (governments, corporates, social-impact organisations) to design, implement and scale policies and best-case prototypes (oft- referred to as “social innovation labs”) to enhance quality of life for populations. My core competency has been in the development of frameworks to distil relevant information; designing and implementing surveys, and quantitative analysis of data. My areas of expertise include: desk reviews, programme design and management, primary research, baseline and impact assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), strategy and planning, stakeholder engagement, capacity building & training, policy development and international project development.

Ms. Kakali Mukhopadhyay
Centre for Development and Environment Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Address :
Kolkata, India (This affiliation/address is for the grant period)
SANDEE Publications :
Estimation of abatement costs of Air pollution in Durgapur City of West Bengal (SANDEE Research Project)
Other Publications:
Mukhopadhyay, K. (2005), ‘Sustainable Industrial Development in Urban areas of West Bengal: A case study of Durgapur’, International Journal of Sustainable Development 2 (1): 123-139.

Mr. Kalyan Das
Professor
OKD Institute of Social Change and Development
Address :
VIP Road, Guwahati, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
16-03-2009 to 16-05-2010
SANDEE Publications :

  1.  Das, K. (2012), ‘Farm Productivity Loss due to Flood-Induced Sand Deposition: A Study in Dhemaji, India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 73 -12
  2. Das, K. (2012), ‘Sand Deposition and Poverty among Farm Households in North-eastern Assam’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 65-12 

Other Publications:

  1. Economic Manifestations of Changed Landscapes: Flood, Sand and Livelihood in a Upper Brahmaputra Valley, Social Change and Development, Vol. X. No.1, 2013
  2. Valuing Life in a Regulated Labour Market: A Study on Tea Plantations in Assam, NLI Research Studies Series, No. 95, V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, India, 2012
  3. How much compensations would be enough? Case of pesticide application workers in Assam’s tea plantations” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 55, No. 4, October-December, 2012

Ms. Kanupriya Gupta
Faculty of Business and Law
University of Delhi
Address :
New Delhi,India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2010 to 15-03-2012
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Gupta, K. (2011), ‘Consumer Responses to Incentive to Reduce Plastic Bag Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 65-11
  2. Gupta, K. (2011), ‘Is a Ban the Best Way to Reduce Plastic Bag Use? A Case Study from Delhi’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 60-11

Mr. Kavi Kumar K.S.
Professor
Madras School of Economics
Address :
Gandhi Mandapam Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
31-07-2005 to 31-01-2007
SANDEE Publications :
Kavi, K. S (2009), ‘The Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 39 – 09
Kavi, K. S. (2009), ‘Climate Sensitivity of Indian Agriculture Do Spatial Effects Matter?’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 45-09
Viswanathan, B. and K.S. Kavi Kumar (2013), ‘Weather Variability, Agriculture and Rural Migration: Evidence from State and District Level Migration in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 83-13
Other Publications:
Kavi Kumar, K.S. (2011), ‘Climate Sensitivity of Indian Agriculture: Do Spatial Effects Matter?’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 4(2): 221-235.
Viswanathan, B. and K.S. Kavi Kumar (2015), ‘Weather, Agriculture and Rural Migration: Evidence from State and District Level Migration in India’, Environment and Development Economics, 20(4).
Kavi Kumar, K.S., Priya Shyamsundar and A. Nambi (2010), ‘The Economics of Climate Change Adaptation in India – Research and Policy Challenges Ahead’, Economic Political Weekly, May 1.

Ms. Kavita Sardana
TERI University
Address :
New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2014 to 15-09-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Economic Value of Biodiversity Conservation provided by Forest and Agro-forest Ecosystems in Kodagu District (Ongoing Research Project)

Mr. Kishor Goswami
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Address :
Khargapur, West Bengal, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
27-08-2010 to 27-08-2012
SANDEE Publications :

  • Goswami, K. and H.K. Chowdhury (2014), ‘To Cultivate or Not? Examining Factors that Influence Jatropha Agriculture in North East India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 82 – 14
  • Goswami, K. (2014), ‘Will Indian farmers respond to the call for increased biofuel production? Evidence from Northeastern India, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 76 -14

Other Publications:

  1. Kishor Goswami and Hari Kanta Choudhury (2015), “To Grow or Not to Grow? Factors Influencing the Adoption of and Continuation with Jatropha in North East India”, Renewable Energy, Vol. 81, pp. 627-638…..Link
  2. Hari Kanta Choudhury and Kishor Goswami (2014), “Do Different Approaches to Measurement of Risk Behaviour Yield Different Results?”, Agricultural Economics Research Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 49-60.
  3. Hari Kanta Choudhury and Kishor Goswami (2013), “Determinants of Expansion of Area under Jatropha Plantation in North East India: A Tobit Analysis“, Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 30, pp. 46-52.
Current Research Area/Interests:
Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Economics of Biofuels
Website:
www.iitkgp.ac.in/fac-profiles/showprofile.php?empcode=bVmVR&depts_name=HS

Ms. L. Umameshwari
Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute
Address :
Karaikal, Pondicherry, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
20-03-2005 to 20-09-2005
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Umamaheswari, L. et al (2009), ‘Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers? The Challenges of Examining Salinization Externalities in South India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 41-09
  2. Umamaheswari, L. et al (2009), ‘Shrimp, Salinity and Sustainability? An Assessment from Southern India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 36-09

Ms. Lekha Mukhpadhyay
Associate Professor of Economics
Jogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta
Address :
Kolkata, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
20-12-2004 to 20-12-2006
SANDEE Publications :
The Analysis of Heterogeneity Effect on Peoples’ Participation in Joint Management of Protected and Reserved Forests in West Bengal (SANDEE Research Project)
Other Publications:

  • Mukhopadhyay, L., B. Ghosh (2013), ‘Mining induced Desiccation and Consequent Impact on Traditional Economic Livelihood – an Analytical Framework’, in Nautiyal, Sunil, K.S. Rao, Harald Kaechele, K.V. Raju, Ruediger Schaldach (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change; Ch.20, SpringerLink, India
  • Mukhopadhyay, L. (2013), ‘Sustainable Development – A Path Dependent Analysis to the Rat hole Coal Mining in Jaintia Hills District, India’, Working Paper (13-06) University of California, Riverside
  • Mukhopadhyay, L., B. Ghosh (2013), ‘Land Acquisition and Land Diversion for Mining towards Industrial Growth -Interest Conflict and Negotiation Game for Sustainable Development’, in Nautiyal, Sunil, K.S. Rao, Harald Kaechele, K.V. Raju, Ruediger Schaldach (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change; Ch.26, SpringerLink, India Mukhopadhyay, Lekha (2010) Diversion of forest land for mining operation and livelihood issue through impact on quantity and quality of water resources in Sarap, Kailas (ed) Institutions Livelihood and Natural Resource Management Bookwell; N Delhi India
  • Mukhopadhyay, L., B. Ghosh (2010), ‘Mining induced land acquisition and soil degradation – impact on sustainability of traditional economic livelihood: an analytical framework’, in Nautiyal, Sunil and B. P Nayak (eds) Ecological Economics: An Approach towards Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability ISEC, Bangalore, India
  • Mukhopadhyay, L. (2006), ‘Institutional Dysfunctionality: A Case Study in Participatory Management of Forest in Buxa Tiger Reserve in North Bengal, India’, in Digital Library of Commons, Indiana University archives, Bloomington, IN 47408-3895; available at dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/handle/10535 /1/

Current Research Area/Interests:
Sustainable development, mining induced environmental changes and their socioeconomic and environmental impact assessment in an integrated framework.

Ms. Mamata Swain
Professor of Economics
Ravenshaw University
Address :
Cuttack, Odisha, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
24-11-2010 to 24-05-2012
SANDEE Publications :
Performance of area based crop yield and rainfall insurance scheme in Orissa ( SANDEE Research Project)
Other Publications:

  • Patnaik, S. and M. Swain (2015), ‘Crop Insurance for Adaptation to Agricultural Risk in Drought-Prone Kalahandi District in Odisha’, Artha Vikas: Journal of Economic Development, ISSN: 0004-3567, Vol.51, No. 1, pp. 34-52, Jan-June 2015.
  • Swain, M. (2015), ‘Crop Insurance as a Risk Management Strategy in Rainfed Agriculture in Odisha’, in J. Deviprasad etal. (eds) Agricultural Risk Management, Hyderabad: BSP BS Publications and Centre for Good Governance, ISBN: 978-93-83635-54-2, pp. 184-201, 2015.
  • Swain, M. (2014), ‘Efficacy of Crop Yield and Rainfall Insurance Scheme in Rainfed Agriculture in Odisha: Some Micro-evidence’, IASSI Quarterly: Contributions to Indian Social Science, ISSN 0970-9061, Vol. 33, No. 2-4, pp. 70-91 April-December 2014.
  • Patnaik, S. and M. Swain (2014), ‘Performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme in Odisha: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis’, Utkal Economic Papers, ISSN: 0976-7592, Vol.17, pp. 101-127, 2014-15.
  • Swain, M. (2014), ‘Performance of Crop Insurance Schemes in India’, Ravenshaw Working paper, pp. 1-23, 2014.
  • Swain, M. (2014), ‘Crop Insurance for Adaptation to Climate Change in India’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No.61, London School of Economics and Political Science, while working as Commonwealth Academic Fellow, pp. 1-41.
  • Swain, M. (2013), ‘Agricultural Risk and Efficacy of Crop Insurance Schemes in Odisha’, in Suman Chandra, K.V. Suresh Babu, P. K. Nath (eds.) Agrarian Crisis in India: The Way Out, Academic Publishers, New Delhi, ISBN 9789332700321, pp. 477-496, 2013.
  • Swain, M. (2014), ‘Crop Insurance for Adaptation to Climate Change in Odisha’, Ravenshaw Journal of Economics, ISSN: 2319-6084, Vol.1, No.1, PP. 42-63, 2012.

Current Research Area/Interests:
Agricultural and Environmental Economics

Ms. Mamatha Rao
Madras School of Economics
Address :
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
11-03-2011 to 11-09-2012
SANDEE Publications :
Greenhouse gases and alternative cooking energy in India (Ongoing Research Project)

Ms. Manjula Menon
M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Address :
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
05-04-2015 to 31-12-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Incentivising Ecosystem Services from Private Property: A Study of Paddy Wetlands of Wayanad, Kerala (Ongoing Research Project)

Mr. Monjit Borthakur
Assistant Professor
OKD Institute of Social Change and Development
Address :
VIP Road, Upper Hengerabari Guwahati, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2012 to 01-09-2014
SANDEE Publications :
Does Urban Greenery Reduce the Cost of Cooling Homes? (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Environment, Regional Planning, GIS & Remote Sensing

Mr. Mruthyunjaya Mishra
Lecturer
Science College
Address :
Hinjlicut,Orissa, India
SANDEE Publications :
Air Pollution Health Impacts in Angul-Talcher Industrial Area In Orissa: An Economic Assessment (SANDEE Research Project)

Ms. Nayanatara Nayak
Assistant Professor
Centre for Multi Disciplinary Development Research (CMDR)
Address :
Dharwad, Karnataka State, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
23-05-2008 to 23-11-2009
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Nayak, N .S (2013),’Tobacco curing and fuel efficiency in Karnataka, India’,SANDEE Working Paper No. 77-13
  2. Nayak, N. S. (2013), ‘Tobacco Curing and Fuel Efficiency in Karnataka, India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 68-13 

Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental economics including water resources
Tobacco and Alcohol Control Issues and Decentralisation
Website:
www.cmdr.ac.in

Ms. Neetu Chopra
Lecturer
Delhi School of Economics
Address :
Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
17-12-2004 to 17-02-2006
SANDEE Publications :

  • Chopra, N., S. Singh, S. Gupta, U. Narain and K. V. Veld (2007), ‘Who Collects Resources in Degraded Environment? A Case Study from Jhabua District, India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 23 – 07
  • Chopra, N.and S. Singh (2007), ‘Why Helping the Environment Helps Women: Understanding the Links between Resource Availability and Gender Equality in India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 22 – 07

Mr. Prajna Paramita Mishra
Assistant Professor
School of Economics University of Hyderabad
Address :
Hyderabad,India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-02-2010 to 15-08-2011
SANDEE Publications :
Mishra, P. P. (2015), ‘Potential Benefits and Earnings from Improving the Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad: A combined revealed and stated preference approach’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 90 -14
Mishra, P. P. (2015), ‘Potential benefits and earnings from improving the water quality of Hussain Sagar Lake in Hyderabad, India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 83-15
Other Publications:
Mishra, P. P. and P. Shyamsundar (2015), ‘Restoring Sagar to its pristine Glory’, in The Hans India, April 22, 2015
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-04-12/Restoring-Sagar-to-its-pristine-glory-143722
Current Research Area/Interests:
Mining and Livelihoods
Economic Valuation of Environmental Impact
Green Hotels

Mr. Pranab Mukhopadhyay
Professor
Goa University
Address :
Goa University
SANDEE Grant Period:
23-01-2001 to 23-07-2002
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Mukhopadhyay, P. and P. Shyamsundar (2015), ‘Ecosystem Services – An Agenda for Research in South Asia’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 88 – 15
  2. Mukhopadhyay, P., M. Nepal, P. Shyamsundar (2014), ‘Co-Producing Sustainability Knowledge: Assessing SANDEE’s Role as a Research Network in South Asia’, SANDEE Working Paper No.89-14
  3. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2006), ‘Privatization, Co-operation and Sustainability – Understanding the Implications of Land-Reform in Goa, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 13-06
  4. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2006), ‘Heterogeneity, Commons and Privitization: Agrarian Institutional Change in Goa’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 14-06

Other Publications:

  1. Mukhopadhyay, P., Nepal, M. & Shyamsundar, P. (2014), ‘Building sustainability skills: A role for regional research networks’, Ecology and Society, Vol. 19 (4) http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07105-190445
  2. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2012), Marine Valuation Report for TEEB India Scoping Report, MoEF
  3. Mukhopadhyay, P. and P. Shyamsundar (2012), ‘Economic Growth and Ecological Sustainability in India’, in C. Ghate (ed), The [Oxford] Handbook of the Indian Economy, Oxford University Press.
  4. Mukhopadhyay, P. and G. Kadekodi (2011), ‘Missing the Woods for the Ore: Goa’s Development myopia,’ Economic and Political Weekly, vol. xlvi (46)
  5. Ternström, A., P. Mukhopadhyay and R. Ghate (2010), ‘Sustainability, autonomy, and benefits from forest commons’, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:E52.¬¬
  6. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2006), ‘Goa: Been there, done that, now what?’ in R. Parathasarathy and Sudarshan Iyengar (eds.) New Development Paradigms and Challenges for Western and Central India, New Delhi: Concept Publishers, Pg. 110-119.
  7. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2005), ‘Now that Your Land is My Land…Does it Matter? A Case Study in Western India’, Environment and Development Economics 10(1): 87-96.

Website:
irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/browse?value=Mukhopadhyay%2C+P.&type=author

Mr. Prasenjit Sarkel
Assistant Professor
University of Kalyani
Address :
Kalyani, West Bengal, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-08-2006 to 15-08-2008
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Sarkhel, P. (2013), ‘Examining Private Participation in Embankment Maintenance in the Indian Sundarbans’,  SANDEE Working Paper No. 75 – 12
  2. Sarkhel, P. (2013), ‘Private Initiatives for Managing Embankments in the Indian Sundarbans’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 69 – 13

Other Publications:

  1. Sarkhel, P. ( 2015), ‘Flood Risks, Land Use and Private Participation in Embankment Maintenance in Indian Sundarbans’, Ecological Economics 118, 272-284
    doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.08.003
  2. Sarkhel, P., S. Banerjee and S.D. Banerjee (2015), ‘Willingness to pay before and after program implementation: the case of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Bally Municipality, India’, Environment Development and Sustainability
    doi:10.1007/s10668-015-9659-5, Print ISSN :1387-585X
  3. Sarkhel, P., and S.D. Banerjee (2015), ‘Biases and Reliability of WTP estimates from Contingent Valuation responses: A study based on Solid Waste Management services in Bally Municipality Howrah’, Arthaniti, XI (1-2), 2012 published in February, 2015, ISSN 0976-7479
  4. Sarkhel, P., (2015), ‘Who will haul the trash? Provision of Waste Management Services in Bally Municipality, Howrah’, in Mahalaya Chatterjee and Anis Mukhopadhyay eds. ‘Urbanization in Howrah: A Socio Economic Perspective’. Primus Publishers New Delhi, ISBN 978-93-84082-39-0, pp 268-284

Current Research Area/Interests:
Impact Evaluation of Environmental Regulations and Mechanism design
Non-market Valuation
Rural Livelihood, Common Property Resource and Climate Change

Ms. Purnima Dasgupta
Ford Foundation Chair in Environmental & Resource Economics ; Acting Head, Environmental Economics Unit
Institute of Economic Growth
Address :
University of Delhi Enclave, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
25-07-2003 to 25-01-2005
SANDEE Publications :
Dasgupta, P. (2006), ‘Common Property Resources as Development Drivers: A Study of a Fruit Cooperative in Himachal Pradesh, India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 15 – 06
Dasgupta, P. (2006), ‘Common Land – Commercialization Vs. Conservation’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 14 – 06
Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Health Economics
Development Economics
Research Methods

Mr. R. Balasubramanian
Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Address :
Coimbatore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
17-11-2000 to 17-05-2002, 22-08-2011 to 22-08-2013
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Balasubramanian, R. (2015), ‘Ground water and farm incomes at risk from climate change in Tamil Nadu, India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 91-15
  2. Balasubramanian, R. (2015), ‘Climate Sensitivity of Groundwater Systems Critical for Agricultural Incomes in South India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 96-15
  3. Balasubramanian, R. (2004), ‘Tank Degradation and Poverty Reduction-The Importance of Common Property Resources in Sustaining the Rural Poor’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 2-04
  4. Balasubramanian, R. and K.N. Selvaraj (2004), Poverty, Private Property and Common Pool Resource Management: The Case of Irrigation Tanks in South India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 2-03

Other Publications:

  1. Balasubramanian, R. (2010), ‘Cooperating to Survive? Farmers’ Cooperation and Sustainable Management of Rural Common Property Resources in South India’, Korean Journal of Cooperative Studies, 28(3):129-153.
  2. Mohanasundari, T. and R. Balasubramanian (2015), ‘Impact of Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors on Groundwater Irrigation in South India’, in K.W. Hipel, L.Fang, J.Cullmann and M.Bristow (Eds.), Conflict Resolution in Water Resources and Environmental Management, Springer International Publishing, pp.277-291.
  3. Balasubramanian, R. (2014), ‘Agricultural Research and Extension in India: Reflections on the Reality and a Roadmap for Renaissance’, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69(1): 14-43 and Keynote Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.
  4. Kathuria V. and R. Balasubramanian (2013), ‘Environmental Cost of Using Top-soil for Brick Making: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu, India’, Review of Market Integration, 5(2): 171-201
  5. Balasubramanian, R. and Seung-Churl Choi (2010), ‘Urbanization, Population Pressure and Agricultural Intensification: Evidences from Tamil Nadu in India’, Journal of Rural Development (Korea Rural Economic Institute), 33 (2):87-108.

Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
Economics of Land and Water Use.

Mr. R.K. Amit
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology
Address :
Chennai, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2013 to 14-09-2015
SANDEE Publications :
Coping Strategies and Coping for Accessing Safe Water in Chennai, India (Ongoing Research Project)

Ms. Ridhima Gupta
Senior Research Fellow
Indian Statistical Institute
Address :
Delhi,India
SANDEE Grant Period:
06-10-2009 to 06-01-2011
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Gupta, R. (2012), ‘Causes of Emissions from Agricultural Residue Burning in North-West India:Evaluation of a Technology Policy Response’, SANDEE Working Paper No.66 -12
  2. Gupta, R. (2014), ‘The Happy Seeder: An Agricultural Solution to Air Pollution in South Asia, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 61-14

Ms. Rucha Ghate
Senior Governance and NRM Specialist
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Address :
Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal
SANDEE Grant Period:
12-06-2001 to 24-07-2005, 06-11-2007 to 06-11-2009
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Ghate,R., S.Ghate, E.Ostrom (2011), ‘Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field’, SANDEE Working Paper No.64 -11 
  2. Shyamsundar,P. and R.Ghate (2011), ‘Rights, Responsibilites and Resources: Examining Community Forestry in South Asia’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 59-11
  3. Ghate, R. and P. Shyamsundar (2011), ‘Is Community Forest Management Good for the Environment and the Poor? A Review’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 54 -11
  4. Ghate,R.(2010), ‘Joint Forest Management, Role of Communication, and Harvesting Behaviour: Evidence from Field Experiments in India, SANDEE Working Paper No. 53-10   
  5. Ghate, R. (2010), ‘Community Management is Good for Forests: Results from a Field Experiment in India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 48-10
  6. Ghate, R. ( 2004), ‘Participatory Forest Management: Collective Action Under Three Different Institutional Regimes’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 3-04
  7. Ghate, R. (2004), ‘Ensuring ‘Collective Action’ in ‘Participatory’ Forest Management’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 3-03

Other Publications:

  1. Matta, JR, R. Ghate and H. Nagendra (2013), ‘The sustainability of traditional community forest management systems: Lessons from India.’ Unasylva, 64(1): 50-56
  2. Ghate, R, S. Ghate and E. Ostrom (2013), ‘Cultural norms, cooperation, and communication: Taking experiments to the field in indigenous communities,’ International Journal of the Commons, 7(2): 498-520
  3. Ghate, R., S. Ghate and E. Ostrom (2013), ‘Can Communities Plan, Grow and Sustainably Harvest from Forests?’ Economic and Political Weekly, 48(8): 59-67
  4. Nagendra, H., R. Ghate and J. Rao (2013) ‘Governing the Commons’. Seminar, 641: 88-93
  5. Ghate, R., H. Nagendra and D. Mehra (2012), ‘Is JFM Really Helping Communities and Forests? Need to Focus on Institution Building?’ In J. Bandhopadyay, K. Chopra, N. Ghosh (eds) Environmental Governance: Approaches, Imperatives and Methods, INSEE and Bloomsbury, New Delhi
  6. Ternström, A., P. Mukhopadhyay and R. Ghate (2010), ‘Sustainability, autonomy, and benefits from forest commons’, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:E52.
  7. Ghate, Rucha, and Mehra, Deepshikha (2008), ‘Integrating informal with formal forest management institutions for sustainable collective action in India’, in Webb, E. and Shivakoti, G. (eds.) Decentralization, Forests and Rural Communities, Sage Publications: New Delhi.
  8. Ghate R. and H. Nagendra (2006), ‘Role of Monitoring in Institutional Performance: Forest Management in Maharashtra, India’, Conservation and Society Vol. 3(2), July-December: 509-532.
  9. Ghate R. & D. Mehra (2004), ‘The Land on which the Forest Stands is not ours, so what? Forest Products are ours! A Study of Three Collective Action Based Forest Regimes Operating Without Land Tenure’, Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 14 (2, 3, 4)

Current Research Area/Interests:
Governance of natural resources
Institutional economics
Environmental economics.

Ms. Ruchi Badola
Scientist & Professor
Wildlife Institute of India
Address :
Post Box 18 Chandrabani Dehra Dun. 248001 Uttarakhand, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-10-2012 01-10-2014
SANDEE Publications :
Economics of living in the wild: cost-benefit analysis for the forest corridor linking the Rajaji-Corbett National Parks, Uttarakhand (SANDEE Research Project)

Mr. S. Madheswaran
Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Policy
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Address :
Nagarbhavi (PO), Bangalore
SANDEE Grant Period:
30-07-2001 to 30-05-2003
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Madheswaran, S. (2005), ‘Valuing Life and Limb: Understanding the Risk-return Trade-off’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 7 -05
  2. Madheswaran, S. (2005), ‘Measuring the value of life and limb: Estimating compensating wage differentials among workers in Chennai and Mumbai’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 9-04

Other Publications:

  1. Mandal, S.K. and S. Madheswaran (2010 ), ‘Environmental efficiency of the Indian cement industry: An interstate analysis’, Energy Policy 38(2), 1108-1118.
  2. Mandal, S.K. and S. Madheswaran (2010), ‘Energy use efficiency of Indian cement companies: A Data Envelopment Analysis’, published online in Energy Efficiency, Vol.4, No.1, 57-73
  3. Mandal, S.K. and S. Madheswaran (2010), ‘Causality between energy consumption and output growth in the Indian cement industry: An application of the panel vector error correction model’, Energy Policy 38 (11), 6560-6565 (Elsevier Publication).

Current Research Area/Interests:
Public Policy, Economics of Labour
Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics.

Ms. Sangeeta Bansal
Professor
Centre for International Trade and Development, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Address :
New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-06-2015 to 31-12-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility Expenditure in India: Effect of New Regulation Regarding Mandatory CSR (Ongoing Research Project)
Other Publications:
  • Bansal, S., M. Parks and D. Zilberman (2015), ‘Technology Adoption under Fit Risk: What Should Development Project Donors and Managers Know?’, Procedia Engineering, Science Direct, 107, 3-10 (2015).
  • Bansal, S.(2015), ‘Environmental quality: impact of economic growth’, Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press 20, 673 – 696
    doi:10.1017/S1355770X14000564  or http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A93SGVba
  • Bansal, S. (2015), ‘Environmental Concerns, the Global Commons and the Indian Economy’, in India and the International Economy (ed) Jayati Ghosh, Oxford University Press.
  • Arora, A., and S. Bansal (2015), ‘Impact of Price Controls on Diffusion of Bt Cotton and Profitability of Seed Providers’, in India’s Tryst with Bt Cotton: Learnings from the First Decade (ed.) N. Lalitha and P.K. Viswanathan, Concept Publications.
  • Bansal, S. and A. Arora (2015), ‘Genetically Modified Crops in India: An Economic Analysis’, in Sustainability of Growth of the Indian Economy ; The Role of Economic, Technological and Environmental Factors (ed) Manmohan Agarwal, World Science.
  • Arora A., S. Bansal and P. S. Ward (2015), ‘Eliciting Farmers’ Valuation for Abiotic Stress-Tolerant Rice in India’, IFPRI Discussion Paper 01409.
  • Bansal S., S. Chakravarty and B. Ramaswami (2013), ‘Information and Signaling Impacts of Labels: Experimental Evidence from India on GM Foods’, Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, 18(06), 701-722 (2013).
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X13000326

Current Research Area/ Interests:
Environmental and agricultural economics and policy, development economics, economics of technological change, information economics and micro-economic theory.
Website:
www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sbansal/

Mr. Santadas Ghosh
Associate Professor in Economics
Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati Santiniketan
Address :
West Bengal, India
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Dynamics of Households: Adaptation and Resilience: Sundarban after Cyclone Aila (Ongoing Reserach Project)
  2. Guha, I. and S.Ghosh (2007), ‘Does Tourism Contribute to Local Livelihood? A Case Study of Tourism,Poverty and Conservation in the Indian Sundarbans’, SANDEE Working Paper No.26-07
  3. Guha, I. and S.Ghosh (2009),’A Glimpse of the Tiger:How much are Indians Willing to pay for it?’,SANDEE Working Paper No.39-09
  4. Guha, I. and S. Ghosh (2009), ‘Valuing the Land of Tigers ? What Indian Visitors are Willing to Pay’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 35-09

Other Publications:

 

  1. Ghosh, S. (2015), ‘Coping with Natural Disaster in the Sunderban Delta of India’, in A Sinha, A Bauer & P. Bullen (Ed) The Environments of the Poor in South Asia: Simultaneously Reducing Poverty, Protecting the Environment, and Adapting to Climate Change, (Chapter #8) Oxford University Press (New Delhi).
  2. Ghosh, S. (2014), ‘Resilience of Nature: Damage and Recovery of Sundarban Agriculture after Cyclone Aila’, in Artha Beekshan, Vol 23, No.2,
  3. Ghosh, S. (2013), ‘Extreme Event, Anthropogenic Stress and Ecological Sustainability in Indian Sundarban’, in Vidyasagar University Journal of Economics, Vol. XVII, pp. 132-148
  4. Ghosh, S. (2011), ‘Valuing the Land of Tigers: What Indian Visitors Reveal?’ (with Dr. Indrila Guha) in Haque A. K. E,, Murty M. N. and Shyamsundar P (ed.) Valuing the Invaluable: The Practice of Environmental Valuation in South Asia, SANDEE (Cambridge University Press)
  5. Ghosh, S. (2009), ‘Tourism, local livelihood, and conservation: a case study in Indian Sundarbans’, (with Dr. Indrila Guha) in Pushpam Kumar and Roldan Muradian (ed) Payment for Ecosystem Services, Oxford University Press (New Delhi).

Current Research Area/Interests:
Livelihood-Environment-Development interlinkage
Mangrove Ecosystems
Agriculture in North-eastern Himalayas

Mr. Saudamini Das
Associate Professor
Institute of Economic Growth (on lien from SSN College, University of Delhi)
Address :
Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
22-09-2005 to 22-09-2007, 23-08-2010 to 23-08-2012
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Das, S. and S. C. Smith (2012), ‘Do Awareness Campaigns Save Lives? Assessing the Odisha Government’s Efforts to Reduce the Impacts of Heat Waves’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 64-12
  2. Das, S. and S. C. Smith (2012), ‘Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 72 – 12
  3. Das, S. (2009), ‘Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms? An Analysis of House Damage due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa, SANDEE Working Paper No. 42-09
  4. Das, S. (2009), ‘Mangroves: A Natural Defense against Cyclones: An investigation from Orissa’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 24-07
  5. Das, S. (2007),’Storm Protection by Mangroves in Orissa: An Analysis of the 1999 Super Cyclone’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 25-07

Other Publications:

  1. Das, S. (2015), ‘Temperature increase, labor supply and cost of adaptation in developing economies: Evidence on urban workers in informal sectors’, Climate Change Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2015) 1550007 (24 pages) © World Scientific Publishing Company
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010007815500074
  2. Das, S. and H. Sandhu (2014), ‘Role of coastal vegetation: a review of ecosystem services of Casuarina equisetifolia L. in Australia and India’, Economic and Political Weekly, January 4, 2014 vol. XLIX (No. 1), pp 42-50.
  3. Das, S., Crépin, A.-S. (2013), ‘Mangroves can provide protection against wind damage during storms, Estuarine’, Coastal and Shelf Science, 134 (2013), 98-107
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2013.09.021
  4. Das, Saudamini and Kanchan Chopra (2012), ‘Towards ‘Green Growth’: Measuring the Trade-off between Conservation of Protected Areas and Hydel Power Generation’, Economic and Political Weekly, Dec 22, 2012, Vol. XLVII, no 51, 59-68.
  5. Das, Saudamini and Stephen C. Smith (2012), ‘Awareness as an Adaptation Strategy for Reducing Mortality from Heat Waves: Evidence from a Disaster Risk Management Program in India,’ Climate Change Economics, Vol.3, No. 2 1250010 (29 pages)
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010007812500108
  6. Das, S. (2012), ‘The role of natural ecosystem and socio-economic factors in the vulnerability of coastal villages to cyclones and storm surge’, Natural Hazards, Vol. 64, 531-546.
    DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0255-9
  7. Das, S. (2011), ‘Examining the Storm Protection Services of Mangroves of Orissa during the 1999 Cyclone’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLVI No 24, pp 60-68.
  8. Vincent, J. R. and Saudamini Das (2009), ‘Reply to Baird et al–Mangroves and storm protection. Getting the numbers right’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 106, No. 40, 29 Sept.2009
  9. Das, S. and Jeffrey R Vincent (2009), ‘Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian Super Cyclone’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 106, No. 18, 5th May: 7357-7360

Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental Valuation
Natural disaster, natural buffers
Coastal vulnerability and disaster management
Climate change, adaptation and evaluation of adaptation programs

Ms. Seema Purushothaman
Professor
Azim Premji University
Address :
Bangalore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
06-07-2001 to 06-07-2003
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Purushothaman, S. (2006), ‘Making Tribal Land Profitable – A Study from the Western Ghats of India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No.12-06
  2. Purushothaman, S. (2006), ‘Land-use Strategies, Economic Options and Stakeholder Preferences: A Study of Tribal Communities in Forest Peripheries’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 13-05

Website:
azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/SitePages/seema-purushothaman.aspx

Mr. Shrachandra Lele
Senior Fellow, Programme Leader (Forests & Governance), Convenor (Centre for Environment & Development)
ATREE
Address :
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
16-06-2004 to 16- 01-2006
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Lele, S., I. Patil, S. Badiger. A. Menon and R. Kumar (2008), ‘Are Forests Always a Good Thing? Understanding the Linkages among Forests, Watersheds and Agriculture in the Western Ghats of India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 33-08
  2. Lele, S., I. Patil, S. Badiger. A. Menon and R. Kumar (2008), ‘The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India’,SANDEE Working Paper No. 36-08

Website:
atree.org/sharad_lele

Mr. Somnath Hazra
Senior Consultant , Forestry and Biodiversity
CTRAN Consulting Ltd
Address :
Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
14-03-2011 to 14-03-2013
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Hazra, S., J. Lewis, I. Das and A. K. Singha ( 2014), ‘Understanding adoption decisions as India scales up the use of Improved Cookstoves-Lessons from Odisha, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 80 -14
  2. Hazra, S., J. Lewis, I. Das and A. K. Singha ( 2014), ‘Adoption and Use of Improved Stoves and Biogas Plants in Rural India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 86 – 14

Current Research Area/Interests:
Forest Economics
REDD+
Environmental valuation
Climate Change
Energy Economics
Development Economics

Mr. Sudhakar Patra
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Ravenshaw University
Address :
Cuttack, Odisha, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-09-2011 to 30-08-2013
SANDEE Publications :
Does Non-timber Forest Products Price Policy in Odisha Need to Change? (SANDEE Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental economics
Natural Resource Management
Tribal and Rural Studies

Mr. Sumeet Patil
CEO and Research Director
NEERMAN
Address :
Mumbai, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2009 to 15-03-2011
SANDEE Publications :
Effect of Climate on Health, Water Quality, and Adaptive Behaviours: A Household Production Approach (SANDEE Research Project)

Mr. Surender Kumar
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
Address :
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-04-2014 to 30-06-2015
SANDEE Publications :
Embodied Carbon Trade and Trade Resistances: Evidence from South Asian Countries (Ongoing Research Project)
Other Publications:

  1. Kumar, S. and Kumar, S. (2015), ‘Does Modernization Improve Performance: Evidence from Indian Police’, European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 39, pp. 57-77
  2. Kumar, S. (2013), ‘Comprehensive Wealth and Sustainable Development in India’, Journal of Income and Wealth vol 34, no. 2, pp. 3-15
  3. Kumar, S., and Yalew, A. W. (2012), ‘Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Secondary Activities: A Literature Review’ Low Carbon Economy vol. 3, pp. 39-48
  4. Kumar, S., Managi, S. and Matsuda, A. (2012), ‘Stock Prices of Clean Energy Firms, Oil and Carbon Markets: A Vector Autoregressive Analysis’, Energy Economics, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 215-226
  5. Kumar, S., and Managi, S. (2011), ‘Substitutability and Non-separability among Water Pollutants: Evidence from India’ Environment and Development Economics Vol. 16, no 6, pp. 709-733
  6. Khanna, M. and Kumar, S. (2011), ‘Corporate Environmental Management and Environmental Efficiency’ Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 227-242
  7. Kumar, S., and Managi, S. (2010), ‘Environment and Productivities in Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide’, Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 91, No. 07, pp. 1580-1592
  8. Kumar, S., and Managi, S. (2010), ‘Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: Trading and Technological Progress’, Ecological Economics Vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 623-631

Mr. Unmesh Patnaik
Assistant Professor
Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Address :
Mumbai, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
15-09-2013 to 15-09-2015
SANDEE Publications :
Effect of Livelihood Intervention Programmes on Adaptive Capacity of Households Odisha,India (Ongoing Research Project)
Current Research Area/Interests:
Economic Impact Evaluation, Urban Economics
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Development Economics

Ms. Upasana Sharma
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Address :
New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
05-04-2015 to 31-12-2016
SANDEE Publications :
Assessing value of agro-met advisory services of India Meteorological Department to farmers in Haryana (Ongoing Research Project)

Ms. Usha Gupta
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Economics, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi
Address :
Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, Delhi, India
SANDEE Publications :
Gupta,U.(2006), ‘Valuation of Urban Air Pollution:A Case Study of Kanpur City in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No.17-06
Gupta, U. (2006), ‘The Benefits of Clean Air – Case Study from India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 16-06 

Mr. V. Saravana Kumar
Assistant Professor
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Address :
Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-02-2010 to 01-08-2011
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Saravana, V. Kumar (2015), ‘Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture – Implications for Food Production in Tamil Nadu, India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 86 – 15
  2. Saravana, V. Kumar (2015), ‘Impact of Climate Change on Yield of Major Food Crops in Tamil Nadu, India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 91 -14

Mr. Vijay P. Ojha
Professor
Institute of Management Technology
Address :
Raj Nagar Ghaziabad – 201001, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
05-06-2002 to 05-06-2003
SANDEE Publications :

  1. Ojha, V. P. (2005), ‘Can India Afford to Tackle Global Warming? A Peek at the Year 2020’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 11-05
  2. Ojha, V. P. (2005), ‘The Trade-Off among Carbon Emissions, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 12-05

Other Publications:

  1. Ojha, Vijay P. (2011), ‘Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in South Asia’,  in R. Jha (ed.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics, London and New York, Routledge, 2011, pp. 309-322.
  2. Ojha, Vijay P. (2010), ‘International Trading of Emission Rights : Its Implications for Low-Carbon Growth in India’ in India Infrastructure Report, 2010 : Infrastructure Development in a Low Carbon Economy, “3i Network, New Delhi, Oxford University Press,2010, pp. 144-154.
  3. Ojha, Vijay P. (2009), ‘Carbon Emission Reduction Strategies and Poverty Alleviation in India’ , Environment and Development Economics (Cambridge University Press), vol. 14, issue 03,pp 323-348 .

Current Research Area/Interests:
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling with applications in Trade
Poverty, Human Capital and Climate Change

Mr. Vinish Kathuria
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology
Address :
Mumbai, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
13-12-2000 to 13-06-2002
SANDEE Publications :

  • Kathuria, V. (2004), ‘Informal Regulation of Pollution in a Developing Country: Empirical Evidence from India’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 6-04
  • Kathuria, V. (2004), ‘Industrial Pollution – Can The News Media Influence Change?’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 6-05

Other Publications:

  • Kathuria, V (2007), ‘Informal Regulation of Pollution in a developing country – Evidence from India’, Ecological Economics, Vol. 63 (2-3), pp. 403-17
  • Kathuria, V. (2006), ‘Controlling Water Pollution in Developing and Transition Countries: Lessons from three successful cases’, Journal of Environmental Management 78(4): 405-26.
  • Kathuria, V. and S. Mukherjee (2006), ‘Is economic growth sustainable? Environmental Quality of Indian States after 1991′ International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 9(1): 38- 60.
  • Kathuria. V. (2004), ‘Informal Regulation of Pollution in a Developing Country: A study of India’, Working Paper No. 2, Madras School of Economics. Chennai.
  • Kathuria. V. (2004), ‘Controlling pollution from SSIs’, Economic and Political Weekly XXXIX (26), June 25-July 2004.
  • Kathuria, V. (2004), ‘Informal Regulation of Pollution in a Developing Country: A study of India’, Madras School of Economics, Working Paper No. 2.
  • Kathuria, V. (2003), ‘Failure of Collective Action as an Institution: Lessons from Kundli, Haryana’, Institute of Economic Growth, Working Paper, E/230/2003, February, Delhi
  • Kathuria, V. and G.S. Haripriya (2002), ‘Industrial Pollution Control – Need for Flexibility’, India Development Report 2002, eds. K. Parikh and R. Radhakrishna, Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp. 140-56.

 

Mr. Vivekanda Mukherjee
Professor
Department of Economics, Jadavpur University
Address :
Kolkata, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
09-06-2008 to 09-03-2010
SANDEE Publications :
Gupta, G. and V. Mukherjee (2011), ‘Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Waste-Water Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands’, SANDEE Working Paper No. 62 -11
Gupta, G. and V. Mukherjee (2011), ‘Wastewater Irrigation, Heavy Metals and the Profitability of Rice Cultivation – Investigating the East Calcutta Wetlands in India’, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 57 – 11
Other Publications:

  • Mukherjee, V., A. Das, A. Akhand and G. Gupta (2013), ‘Toxicity and profitability of rice cultivation under wastewater irrigation: The case of the East Calcutta wetlands.’ Ecological Economics, Vol. 93: 292-300
  • Mukherjee, V., D. Rubbelke and T. Sanyal (2014), ‘Technology Transfer as a Means to Combat Global’, in Sugata Marjit and Meenakshi Rajeev (ed.) Emerging Issues in Economic Development: A Contemporary Theoretical Perspective, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 219 – 247.
  • Mukherjee, V., S. Pandit, and T. Sanyal (2011), ‘Public Economics and the Environment’, India Macroeconomics Annual, 79 – 99.
  • Mukherjee, V., and G. Gupta (2006), ‘Of Guns and Trees: Impact of Terrorism on Forest Conservation’, Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 11, 221 – 233.

Current Research Area/Interests:
Applied Microeconomics
Public Economics

Ms. Yamini Gupt
Associate Professor
Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi South Campus
Address :
Benito Juarez Road New Delhi, India
SANDEE Grant Period:
01-07-2009 to 01-01-2011
SANDEE Publications :
Gupt,Y.(2012), ‘Is the Deposit Refund System for Lead Batteries in Delhi and the National Capital Region Effective?’, SANDEE Working Paper No.68-12
Gupt, Y. (2012), ‘Is the Deposit Refund System for Lead-acid Batteries in Delhi and the National Capital Region Effective?, by Yamini Gupt, SANDEE Policy Brief No. 62-12
Other Publications:

  • Gupt (2014), ‘Economic instruments and the efficient recycling of batteries in Delhi and the National Capital Region of India’, Environment and Development Economics
    Available on CJO 2014 doi :10.1017/S1355770X14000382
  • Gupt and Sahay (2015), ‘Review of Extended Producer Responsibility: A Case Study Approach’, Waste Management and Research. Vol. 33, no. 7
  • Gupt and Sahay (2015), ‘Managing Used Lead Acid Batteries in India: Evaluation of EPR-DRS Approaches’, Journal of Health and Pollution, Vol. 5, no. 8
  • Gupt and Dalei (2014), ‘Livelihood Sustainability of Forest Dependent Communities in a Mine-spoiled Area’, International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics, Vol.35, no. 4
  • Gupt  (2014), ‘Policy Measures and Incentives for Green Recycling of Lead in India’, Published by Blacksmith Institute, USA.
  • Gupt (2014), ‘Green Recycling of Lead for a Sustainable Future’, Minerals and Metals Review, Vol. XL, no. 7, July 2014, pp 24-27

Current Research Area/Interests:
Environmental and Resource Economics
Economics of Waste Management in formal and informal sectors
Industrial and Spatial Economics

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