Nandan Nawn

National Islamic University · Department of Economics

Cement is among the highest pollution-generating industries in India, both directly (particulate matter) and indirectly (use of thermal-powered electricity as an input). With growing infrastructure requirements, the volume of cement production—globally ranked second—can only rise. At the same time, as a ‘Scavenger Industry’, it has the potential to...

A two-week Capacity Building Programme on Academic Writing and Publication Processes for early career teachers and researchers took place in December 2022, at and organised by Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia, with Biodiversity Collaborative and Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE). There were about 40 technical sessions, in...

Applications are invited from Teachers (preferably Lecturers and Assistant Professors) and Researchers in a UGC recognized Indian University/ Deemed to be University/ College/ Institutes of National Importance or ICSSR Research Institutes for participation in an ICSSR sponsored two-week capacity building programme (CBP) on ‘Academic Writing and Pub...

Making a case for opening of HEIs in India

Ranking follows from the scores obtained against a variety of criterion, aggregated using a set of weights. Improving performance in each criteria boosts the score, but weights will determine their relative effectiveness in augmenting it https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/can-an-indian-university-occupy-a-top-spot-in-global-rankings-1016243441...

CALL FOR PAPERS •RESEARCH PAPER: address substantive research questions, contribute new insight and/or provide new findings in the relevant knowledge domain. •THEMATIC ESSAY/SURVEY: provide an exhaustive account and a nuanced critique of the relevant knowledge domains. •COMMENTARY: short pieces on matters of contemporary relevance. •NOTES FROM THE...

Fourth issue of EPW Review of Environment and Development on the theme of biodiversity focused development pathways consists of five papers and one introduction.

Highly populated tropical countries face tremendous pressures in reconciling the needs for improved economic security and the protection of declining biodiversity. India is no exception and its biodiversity is under severe pressure due to complex interactions among land use change, other human economic activities, and climate change. Preservation a...

Highly populated tropical countries face tremendous pressures in reconciling the needs for improved economic security and the protection of declining biodiversity. India is no exception and its biodiversity is under severe pressure due to complex interactions among land use change, other human economic activities, and climate change. Preservation a...

Introduction to volume 2 of Review of Environment and Development in Economic and Political Weekly.

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This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other. In recent times, this ecology–economy–society interface has received unprecedented attention within the broader en...

This is a collection of selected papers presented in the INSEE-KILA International conference titled Sustainability, Institutions and Incentives: Voices, Policies and Commitments, the Ninth Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Ecological Economics (INSEE) at Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA), Thrissur between 8th and 10th Novem...

It is impossible to ignore the connection between economic development and ecological sustainability— overwhelming scientific evidence points to anthropogenic pressures slowly destroying life on Earth. The need for corrective action is, therefore, critical. This edited compilation studies the processes that are causing irreversible changes in the...

Sustainability in Higher Education for the Global South: A Conversation across Geographies and Disciplines

A workshop on 'Sustainability in Higher Education from the vantage of the Global Sou-th' was organized by the Azim Premji University between 12 and 14 January 2015 in Bengaluru, India. Its goal was to explore how sustainability can be integrated into undergraduate , postgraduate and professional courses. The workshop was divided into four sessions...

Sustainability of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) are contingent on both ‘weak sustainability’ and ‘strong sustainability.’ Rights-based approach, the most prevalent one in the international policy space towards sustained realization of development goals, is unlikely to ensure either of the sustainability notions. Rather it has to be the (mora...

In the literature on sustainability of agriculture, both labourers and workers are conspicuously absent. Here, the sustainability of agriculture has been defined in terms of whether the farm household in question is able to yield an energy surplus when its members and the animals in its possession are obtaining an adequate ‘energy income’ or Calori...

This paper offers a critical discussion of the rich source of information on farm-level data, the Cost of Cultivation Survey datasets, collected by the central and state governments. The paper also analyses a recent proposal to modify the schedules and mode of collection of data and concludes with a few specific suggestions on collection, documenta...

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/119882 This thesis defines the sustainability of agriculture in terms of whether the farm household is able to yield an energy surplus, when its members and the animals in its possession are obtaining an adequate Calorie intake. Appropriate Calorie norms have been assumed, their fulfilment being a nece...

Energy value (use-value) of irrigation under surplus rainfall conditions, as in all parts of state of West Bengal with an annual rainfall of 1000 mm or more, represents the value of the unsaved rainwater, an ecosystem function, to the farmer-cultivator, for meeting the water requirements of the planted crops, an ecosystem service. In such situation...