Environmental Valuation in South Asia

A. K. Enamul Haque is Professor of Economics at United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. M. N. Murty specializes in public economics and environmental and resource economics. He is a retired Professor from the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India. Priya Shyamsundar is Program Director for the South Asian Network for Environment and Development Economics, Kathmandu, Nepal.

'Valuation of environmental resources is essential in designing socially desirable policies. This book gives an insightful review of valuation studies in South Asia. It should make an interesting read [for] environmental and ecological economists. Development economists and politicians can also benefit from this book to boost their understanding of how valuation can improve their recommendations and decisions in development planning.' Karl Goran Maler, Former Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Swedish Academy of Sciences

• 1. Introduction; 2. Environmental valuation: a review of methods M. N. Murty, P. Shyamsundar and A. K. Enamul Haque; 3. Valuing the environment as a production input Jeffrey R. Vincent; 4. Should shrimp farmers pay paddy farmers?: The challenges of examining salinisation externalities in South India L. Umamaheswari, K. Omar Hattab, P. Nasurudeen and P. Selvaraj; 5. Evaluating gains from de-eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka W. R. Rohitha; 6. Pesticide productivity and vegetable farming in Nepal Ratna Kumar Jha and Adhrit Prasad Regmi; 7. Forests, hydrological services and agricultural income: a case study from the Western Ghats of India Sharachchandra Lele, Iswar Patil, Shrinivas Badiger, Ajit Menon and Rajeev Kumar; 8. Can mangroves minimize property loss during big storms?: An analysis of house damages due to the super cyclone in Orissa Saudamini Das; 9. Valuation of recreational amenities from environmental resources: the case of two national parks in Northern Pakistan Himayatullah Khan; 10. Valuing the land of tigers: what Indian visitors reveal Indrila Guha and Santadas Ghosh; 11. Estimating welfare losses from urban air pollution using panel data from household health diaries Usha Gupta; 12. Children in the slums of Dhaka: diarrhoea prevalence and its implications M. Jahangir Alam; 13. Red wells, green wells and the costs of arsenic contamination in Bangladesh M. Zakir Hossain Khan and A. K. Enamul Haque; 14. Air quality and cement production: examining the implications of point source pollution in Sri Lanka Cyril Bogahawatte and Janaranjana Herath; 15. Revisiting the need for improved stoves: estimating health, time and carbon benefits Min Bikram Malla Thakuri; 16. Benefits from reduced air pollution in Delhi and Kolkata: a hedonic property price approach M. N. Murty, S. C. Gulati and Avishek Banerjee; 17. The value of statistical life K. R. Shanmugam and S. Madheswaran; 18. An assessment of demand for improved household water supply in southwest Sri Lanka Herath Gunatilake, Jui-Chen Yang, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Caroline van den Berg.