Achiransu Acharyya is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Visva-Bharati (A Central University) situated in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Previously he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. His areas of teaching and research are mainly in Natural resource and Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics and Economics of Water Resources. For the past several years, he has been working on areas involving property rights and ownership of land and water, the economics of groundwater resources in agriculture, the use of energy for agriculture and sustainable development. He has got several national and international publications in journals and books to his credit. He has done several national and international research projects related to agriculture, the environment, and sustainable development. He visited the University of Oregon, USA, on a Teaching cum Research Fellowship. He has also visited the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands as a Visiting Scholar. He has received various awards for his research, including the Third Prize in the James D. Wolfensohn Essay Competition sponsored by The World Bank, Washington D.C., and the Dr. N.A. Mujumdar Prize awarded by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics. He is the Chief Editor of a water related journal titled Indian Groundwater. He is also an Associate Editor of a reputed Bengali social science journal titled Anustup.

"Professor Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya’s research in environmental economics ranges from the micro to the macro, from investigations of common property resource institutions on land and at sea to the interrelationships among economic growth, energy consumption, and climate change. This volume assembles works written in his honour by a distinguished group of scholars from institutions in South Asia and around the world. In addition to paying tribute to Prof. Bhattacharya’s diverse contributions, the chapters demonstrate the ability of economics to help us understand and address some of the most challenging problems facing humanity."Jeffrey R. Vincent, Korstian Distinguished Professor in Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, USA

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of contributorsForeword by Partha DasguptaPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction and Overview: Environmental Economics in Developing CountriesAchiransu AcharyyaPart I. Environment, Ecology and Development1. Three Theories of Growth, Environment and Poverty NexusM N Murty2. Natural Capital, Pandemic and Development: Exploration of Nexus and Solutions Pushpam Kumar, Amelia Holmes and Samia Islam3. COVID-19: A Neo-Malthusian Event? Ecological links, Challenges and Opportunities Ramprasad Sengupta and Chetana Chaudhuri4. Electrification and Development: Empirical evidence on the effect of electricity provision on household welfareUjjayant Chakravorty and Martino PelliPart II. Economics of Nature Conservation5. Incentive-Based Approaches to Nature ConservationE. Somanathan6. Forests, Carbon Sequestration, and Ecosystem Services: Are There “Two-For-One” Deals?R. David Simpson7. Incentives for Rural Households to Establish Tree Cover on Agricultural Land in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaStella Z. Schons, Gregory S. Amacher, Kelly M. Cobourn, Nilesh Shinde and Haripriya Gundimeda8. Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical ForestsSusmita Dasgupta and David WheelerPart III. Climate Change and Development9. Regional Climate Vulnerabilities in South Asia: A Development PerspectiveAnil Markandya, Muthukumara Mani, Vaideeswaran Sankaran and Prema Sai Narasimhan10. Climate Smart Agriculture in Developing Economies: An Analysis of Strategies and PoliciesAchiransu Acharyya11. Pandemic, Climate Change and Sustainable DevelopmentJyoti K. ParikhPart IV. Economics of Environmental Policy12. Environmental Policy in India: Retrospect and Recent DevelopmentsKanchan Chopra13. Household waste management and the role of gender in NepalMani Nepal, Marina Cauchy, Apsara Karki Nepal and Chanda Gurung Goodrich14. Fabricated Electric Fencing: A Promising Strategy for Reducing Crop Damages from Wildlife in BhutanJamyang Choda, Heman Das Lohano and Priya Shyamsundar15. Revisiting the Regional Environmental Economics Networks: Some Lessons and ReflectionsBhim Adhikari and Lowine HillIndex

Achiransu Acharyya is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Visva-Bharati (A Central University) situated in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Previously he has taught at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. His areas of teaching and research are mainly in Natural resource and Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics and Economics of Water Resources. For the past several years, he has been working on areas involving property rights and ownership of land and water, the economics of groundwater resources in agriculture, the use of energy for agriculture and sustainable development. He has got several national and international publications in journals and books to his credit. He has done several national and international research projects related to agriculture, the environment, and sustainable development. He visited the University of Oregon, USA, on a Teaching cum Research Fellowship. He has also visited the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands as a Visiting Scholar. He has received various awards for his research, including the Third Prize in the James D. Wolfensohn Essay Competition sponsored by The World Bank, Washington D.C., and the Dr. N.A. Mujumdar Prize awarded by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics. He is the Chief Editor of a water related journal titled Indian Groundwater. He is also an Associate Editor of a reputed Bengali social science journal titled Anustup.

"Professor Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya’s research in environmental economics ranges from the micro to the macro, from investigations of common property resource institutions on land and at sea to the interrelationships among economic growth, energy consumption, and climate change. This volume assembles works written in his honour by a distinguished group of scholars from institutions in South Asia and around the world. In addition to paying tribute to Prof. Bhattacharya’s diverse contributions, the chapters demonstrate the ability of economics to help us understand and address some of the most challenging problems facing humanity."Jeffrey R. Vincent, Korstian Distinguished Professor in Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, USA

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of contributorsForeword by Partha DasguptaPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction and Overview: Environmental Economics in Developing CountriesAchiransu AcharyyaPart I. Environment, Ecology and Development1. Three Theories of Growth, Environment and Poverty NexusM N Murty2. Natural Capital, Pandemic and Development: Exploration of Nexus and Solutions Pushpam Kumar, Amelia Holmes and Samia Islam3. COVID-19: A Neo-Malthusian Event? Ecological links, Challenges and Opportunities Ramprasad Sengupta and Chetana Chaudhuri4. Electrification and Development: Empirical evidence on the effect of electricity provision on household welfareUjjayant Chakravorty and Martino PelliPart II. Economics of Nature Conservation5. Incentive-Based Approaches to Nature ConservationE. Somanathan6. Forests, Carbon Sequestration, and Ecosystem Services: Are There “Two-For-One” Deals?R. David Simpson7. Incentives for Rural Households to Establish Tree Cover on Agricultural Land in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaStella Z. Schons, Gregory S. Amacher, Kelly M. Cobourn, Nilesh Shinde and Haripriya Gundimeda8. Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical ForestsSusmita Dasgupta and David WheelerPart III. Climate Change and Development9. Regional Climate Vulnerabilities in South Asia: A Development PerspectiveAnil Markandya, Muthukumara Mani, Vaideeswaran Sankaran and Prema Sai Narasimhan10. Climate Smart Agriculture in Developing Economies: An Analysis of Strategies and PoliciesAchiransu Acharyya11. Pandemic, Climate Change and Sustainable DevelopmentJyoti K. ParikhPart IV. Economics of Environmental Policy12. Environmental Policy in India: Retrospect and Recent DevelopmentsKanchan Chopra13. Household waste management and the role of gender in NepalMani Nepal, Marina Cauchy, Apsara Karki Nepal and Chanda Gurung Goodrich14. Fabricated Electric Fencing: A Promising Strategy for Reducing Crop Damages from Wildlife in BhutanJamyang Choda, Heman Das Lohano and Priya Shyamsundar15. Revisiting the Regional Environmental Economics Networks: Some Lessons and ReflectionsBhim Adhikari and Lowine HillIndex