TY - BOOK AU - Purkayastha, Gautam. TI - Environmental Economics: Theory, Problems and Solution SN - 9789327239096 U1 - 338.927 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Kalyani Publishers N1 - Chapter-1: Evaluation of environmental economics; Chapter-2: Sustainable development; Chapter-3: Economics of resources, pollution and materials balance model; Chapter-4: Public goods and externalities; Chapter-5: Market, efficient level on pollution and coase theorem; Chapter-6: Command and control approach vs. market approach; Chapter-7: Biodiversity; Chapter-8: Environmental degradation in LDCs and policy choices; Chapter-9: Pollution haven hypothesis and debt-for-nature swap; Chapter-10: Environmental degradation in Assam and other North Eastern States in India; Chapter-11: Global environmental concerns and initiatives; Chapter-12: Environmental impact assessment; Chapter-13: Environmental impact assessment; Chapter-14: Population and environmental quality; Chapter-15: Interlinking of rivers: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges; Chapter-16: Watershed management, deforestation and solid waste management; Chapter-17: Common property resources and the tragedy of the commons; N2 - Environmental economics focuses on all the different facets of the relationship between environmental quality and the economic behaviour of mankind. In this book, many important theories and concepts of environmental economics have been covered so as to cater the needs of the undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics/environmental economics under Indian Universities, North-Eastern Universities in particular. The book would also be of immense help as a reference source to social activities, policy makers and the nature lovers ER -