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Environmental and Social Sustainability: Key Issues and Concerns

by K.C. Chakrabarty (Address by Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the Yes Bank–GIZ–UNEP Sustainability Series event on Environment and Social Risk Management, on April 23, 2013 at Mumbai) There are different aspects to sustainability viz., environmental and social that we need to understand. ‘Environment sustainability’ refers to the need [...]

Development and Ecological Sustainability in India:Possibilities for the Post-2015 Framework

By Ashish Kothari Oxfam India Working Paper no.16, March 2013 This paper is aimed at policy level discussions, as well as an aid to civil society to push for necessary changes to take Indian economy, society, and polity towards the goal of human well-being with ecological sustainability as one fulcrum. It provides a context of [...]

Equity in Climate Change:A Suggested Approach

by Prodipto Ghosh Economic and Political Weekly, March 23, 2013 The Rio Declaration of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change emphasises that human beings are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development and are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony with nature. This principle affirms that considerations of human [...]

A Survey of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices in Indian Manufacturing Firms

by Subrata Mitra and Partha Priya Datta IIMC Working Paper no.723, February 2013 Research on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has attracted increased attention in recent years. Although SSCM has been studied for developed and developing countries, there has been little information about the adoption of SSCM practices in India. This paper presents one of [...]

Negative Influence of Fiscal Subsidies on Environment:Empirical Evidence from Cross-Country Estimation

by Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty NIPFP WP no. 2013-117, January 2013 It has been observed that a number of developed as well as developing countries provide subsidies to their resource-intensive sectors like agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing etc. However, overproduction and consequent pollution as well as overexploitation of natural resources resulting from the provision of input [...]

Is the Clean Development Mechanism Promoting Sustainable Development?

Yongfu Huang, Jingjing He and Finn Tarp UNU-WIDER  Working Paper No. 2012/72 One of the dual objectives of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol is to promote sustainable development in the host countries. With different CDM indicators for 58 CDM host countries over 2005-10, this paper empirically assesses whether CDM project development [...]

New eco-tourism guidelines likely to favour tourism industry

By Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava The government is about to finalise the new guidelines for tourism in tiger reserves even though there is no consensus among members of the panel set up to draft them. A few non-official members of the panel have strongly opposed some of the recommendations of the panel that suit the interests of the tourism [...]

Going beyond GDP, UNDP proposes human development measure of sustainability

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2012—In a high-level forum at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) presented the conceptual groundwork for a  future “Sustainable Human Development Index,” which would recognize the cost of human development to future generations. The UNDP forum  was prompted by the call made [...]

Green rider for GDP

by Richard Mahapatra/Jun 30, 2012 After using gross domestic product, or GDP, as the universal measurement of economy for six decades, the world has begun looking beyond this gold standard for measuring a country’s economy. On May 25, 10 African countries agreed to incorporate their natural capital, or value of their natural resources, into their [...]

India’s Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability:What Are the Tradeoffs?

by Muthukumara Mani; Anil Markandya; Aarsi sagar and Sebnem Sahin WB Policy Research Paper no.WPS6208, September 2012  One of the key environmental problems facing India is that of particle pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels. This has serious health consequences and with the rapid growth in the economy these impacts are increasing. At the [...]

Working towards sustainable development: Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy

Published by ILO/UNEP, June 2012 A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if accompanied by the right policy mix, create more and better jobs, lift people out of poverty and promote social inclusion. In fact, the growth model of the [...]

Computing Research for Sustainability

Lynette I. Millett and Deborah L. Estrin, Editors [2012] A broad and growing literature describes the deep and multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by the United States and the world. Despite the profound technical challenges involved, sustainability is not, at its root, a technical problem, nor will merely technical solutions be sufficient. Instead, [...]

Innovation, Investment, Enterprise: Generating Sustainable Livelihood at Grassroots through Honey Bee Philosophy

by Anil K Gupta IIMA Working Paper No. 2012-06-04, June 2012 In memory of Dr. C.V. Seshadri, a maverick scientist and a social change agent, it is suggested that a new model for sustainable livelihoods is followed. The ex-ante and ex-post transaction costs of innovators, investors and entrepreneurs will have to be reduced if the [...]

Working towards sustainable development :Opportunities for decent work and social inclusion in a green economy

Published by International Labour Organization, June 2012 A green economy is necessary if sustainable development is to be realized. However, as this report emphasizes, a green economy can also, if accompanied by the right policy mix, create more and better jobs, lift people out of poverty and promote social inclusion. In fact, the growth model [...]

Research for Sustainable Development: Foundations, Experiences, and Perspectives

Edited by Urs Wiesmann and Hans Hurni, 2011 Achieving sustainable development requires knowledge-based and value-conscious social, political, and economic decisions and actions at multiple levels. Research aiming to support sustainable development must co-produce knowledge at the interfaces between disciplines, between science and society, between knowledge cultures in the global North, South, and East, and between [...]

Reframing Sustainability? Climate Change and North–South Dynamics

Tiina Kontinen & Irmeli Mustalahti (2012) Forum for Development Studies, 39:1, 1-4 Climate change is a major global challenge that elicits diverse and often conflicting views from researchers, policy-makers and civil society activists. Accordingly, the theme of climate change has increasingly entered the domain of development research,policy and practice, thus challenging our conceptualisation of sustainability [...]

PRODUCTIVITY: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL, Volume 51, Issue 4, Jan-Mar 2011

Contents ®       Energy Efficiency Initiatives in India D. Pawan Kumar and J. Nagesh Kumar ®       Development & Production of Eco-Friendly Humic Acid from Neyveli Lignite for Sustainable Agriculture R. Kandasamy, B.Sivagnanam, S.Santhanam, and V. Manoharan ®       Municipal Solid Waste Management in India M. Balasubramanian and V. Dhulasi Birundha ®       Productivity Improvement in an Engineering Firm [...]

Resilent People Resilent Planet: A Future Worth Choosing

The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability Date: Jan-2012 The long-term vision of the panel is to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality and make growth inclusive, and production and consumption more sustainable, while combating climate change and respecting a range of other planetary boundaries. in light of this, the report makes a range of recommendations to take forward the panel’s [...]

The Myth of Sustainable Tourism

By Richard Sharpley CSD Working Papers Series 2009/2010 – No.4 The term ‘sustainable tourism’ first entered the language of tourism development policy some two decades ago. Reflecting the emergence and subsequent widespread adoption of sustainable development more generally, it was seen as an appropriate response to the challenges posed by the scale, scope and consequences of [...]

Public services and expenditure need equalization : reflections on principles and worldwide comparative practices

by Anwar Shah WB PolicyResearch Paper no. WPS 6006, March 2012 This paper reviews the conceptual challenges as well as lessons from worldwide experiences in implementing public services and expenditure need compensation in fiscal equalization transfers with a view to developing guidance for practitioners. The paper concludes that while in theory a strong case for [...]

Cambridge Journal of Economics· Volume 36, Issue 2, March 2012

Articles Ontology and the study of social reality: emergence, organisation, community, power, social relations, corporations, artefacts and money Tony Lawson The world improvement plans of Fritz Schumacher John Toye Dynamic Keynesian economics: cycling forward with Harrod and Kalecki Peter Kriesler and J. W. Nevile A suggestion for a new definition of the concept of finance [...]

Exploring Sustainable Solutions for Increasing Global Food Supplies: Report of a Workshop

Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge; National Research Council Year: 2011 Exploring Sustainable Solutions for Increasing Global Food Supplies summarizes the second of two National Research Council workshops, addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all. The workshop was held in May 2011. While sustainable food security depends both [...]

Unleashing India’s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Mark A. Dutz, Editor (2007) The goals of this book and the collaborative process underlying its preparation are to develop concrete actions that strengthen India’s innovation environment, enhance productivity growth, and reduce poverty. Because innovation is a broad topic, this volume covers a vast array of areas ranging from India’s broader economic and institutional regime—with [...]

CSR Orientation of Indian Banks and Stakeholder Relationship Marketing Orientation: An Empirical Investigation

by Ramendra Singh IIMC WPS No.683,  October 2011   We address the research questions, (1) Are business metrics of Indian banks associated with its CSR orientation? and (2) Is the CSR orientation of banks focused on areas which is driven by nature of its target markets, such that there is an alignment between CSR orientation and [...]

Sustainability and the U.S. EPA

Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Research Council (2011) Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food [...]

STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION FOR INDIAN POWER SECTOR TO GENERATE CLEAN ENERGY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sukanya Ghosh and P.P. Sengupta INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT (ICM 2011) PROCEEDING Energy is an important input for economic development, but world’s energy supply is still largely based on fossil fuels and nuclear power. These sources of energy will not last forever and have proved to be contributors to our environmental problems. India’s energy demand is increasing [...]

The Global Social Crisis: Report on the World Social Situation 2011

United Nations, New York, 2011 This Report on the World Social Situation explores the ongoing adverse social consequences of the crisis. The global economic downturn has had wide-ranging negative social outcomes for individuals, families, communities and societies, and its impact on social progress in areas such as education and health will only become fully evident [...]

Population, Poverty, and Sustainable Development :A Review of the Evidence

by Monica Das Gupta;John Bongaarts and John Cleland WPS 5719, June 2011 There is a very large but scattered literature debating the economic implications of high fertility. This paper reviews the literature on three themes: (a) Does high fertility affect low-income countries’ prospects for economic growth and poverty reduction? (b) Does population growth exacerbate pressure [...]

Growth and Sustainability in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa

OECD Publishing. Date: Aug-2010 Growth and Sustainability in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa is based on the proceedings of a conference, organised by the OECD, on the growth performance of these large emerging-market economies. The book brings together contributions from distinguished policy makers and scholars. It discusses the growth experiences of these countries, [...]

World Development Volume 39, Issue 6 (June 2011)

Contents 1. Editorial Advisory Board Special Issue: Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability. Edited by Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink 2. Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability Original Research Article Niels Hermes, Robert Lensink 3. Microfinance and Investment: A Comparison with Bank and Informal Lending Original Research Article Lucia Dalla Pellegrina 4. Does Microfinance Work [...]

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