Shyamasree Dasgupta

• Ph.D in Economics
• Professor (Assistant) at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

Recognizing that no central authority can combat climate change, scholars have pointed to the potential of polycentric governance in tackling climate change. Yet, empirical evidence for such a claim is scarce, particularly in the Global South. This study analyzes the characteristics, promises, and pitfalls of polycentric governance to promote clima...

Floods are one of the most recurrent and destructive natural hazards that pose a significant threat to human lives, infrastructure and the environment. In north eastern India, floods caused substantial damage during 2018 to 2023 destroying approximately 7.1 lakh houses, crop loss of 8.5 lakh hectares and loss of roughly 927 human lives. The Brahmap...

Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) is highly vulnerable to climate change and its variability. The present study employs an indicator-based approach to assess the district-level (132 districts) vulnerability of the IHR, based on a modified risk assessment framework proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR5). Based on Moron's I...

This paper analyzed users’ willingness to pay (WTP) for safe drinking water in a resource-poor region in West Bengal, India, with dangerously high groundwater arsenic concentrations. The study was carried out during the installation of an Electro Chemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) water treatment plant at the site. Using a contingent valuation met...

This study evaluated a potential transition of India’s power sector to 100% wind and solar energy sources. Applying a macro-energy IDEEA (Indian Zero Carbon Energy Pathways) model to 32 regions and 114 locations of potential installation of wind energy and 60 locations of solar energy, we evaluated a 100% renewable power system in India as a concep...

This article presents a critical assessment of 40 years of research that may be brought under the umbrella of energy efficiency, spanning different aggregations and domains—from individual producing and consuming agents to economy-wide effects to the role of innovation to the influence of policy. After 40 years of research, energy efficiency initia...

Citation: Das, N.; Dasgupta, S.; Roy, J.; Langhelle, O.; Assadi, M. Emission Mitigation and Energy Security Trade-Off: Role of Natural Gas in the Indian Power Sector. Energies 2021, 14, 3787. https://doi.org/10.3390/ Abstract: India's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) aim to increase the share of non-fossil fuel, especially renewables, in p...

This brief introduction describes the organization and contents of our book. This volume is an effort to present, in one readable collection, the diversity of environmental issues. Researchers from different fields of subject like Political Science, Environmental Science, Economics, Geography, Pollination Biology, History, English, Earth Sciences a...

While access to cleaner fuel is a sustainable development goal, the transition from traditional to modern fuel is yet to be achieved in India. This paper estimates fuel costs associated with such transitions and analyses the determinants of access to electricity for lighting and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for cooking. State-level regression mode...

Abstract This article states the fundamental concepts of economics that are used to address the issue of climate change mitigation and based on empirical examples, it explains the complexity of solutions towards mitigation compared to standard economic problems. Anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases is a ‘bad’ generating transboundary negativ...

While input-output (IO) tables have been widely employed to study energy and environmental issues, Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) which further considers the interactions of the production system, primary factors, households and social institutions in the economy is rarely seen in this field. This paper thus compares the transmission dynamics under...

It is beyond debate now that future ‘global’ stabilization target is fundamental to manage climate change, impacts and associated risks. Mainstream debate is around the nature of coordination among the national goals with global target of limiting the average temperature increase to 1.5 or below 2 degrees centigrade above the pre-industrial level....

Driving economic growth through a low carbon trajectory will be a challenge as well as an opportunity for India in next three decades with a billion plus population. Cities are going to play a major role in this rapidly urbanising India. The scope of this article is to focus on some of the ongoing city-scale actions, which clearly indicate that Ind...

In the lead up to the Paris Agreement (2015), the Nationally Determined Contribution that India has announced included a reduction in emissions intensity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 33–35% below 2005 levels and an increased share of non-fossil fuels to 40% with respect to power generation (as compared to 11% in 2010) by 2030. In this respect...

This paper has two research objectives: first, it derives and analyses energy intensity trends for seven energy intensive manufacturing industries and the aggregate manufacturing sector in India for the period 1973–1974 to 2011–2012 and compares the same with best practice benchmarks. Second, based on Index Decomposition Analysis, it studies the ex...

Energy-intensive industries in India have successfully increased their output while simultaneously lowering their energy-intensity. Over time, as technological solutions have been increasingly adopted at a cost, producers have responded in textbook fashion to rises in the price of energy and substitutes and to top down policy measures etc. to maint...

Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) has emerged as a significant policy tool to mandate decrease in specific energy consumption (SEC) of the energy-intensive industries in India. As there are similar cap and trade policies operating in different other parts of the world, learning and experience derived from those will be helpful to make PAT more effec...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of energy demand behaviour of seven energy intensive manufacturing industries and the aggregate manufacturing sector in India during 1973–74 to 2011–12. The policy Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) has mandated energy efficiency targets for these manufacturing industries in India. We focus on two major dr...

Both technology and user behavior matter in shaping a growth path. Productivity enhancement of the factors of production through technological progress has so far made the economies advance on a resource efficient path. Producers and consumers weigh costs and benefits to make choices among factor inputs and final products respectively to achieve co...

Actual climate benefit in terms of reduction in fossil fuel use and resultant climate benefit achieved through energy efficiency strategy can be correctly measured only when rebound effect is netted out. Although basic mechanism of rebound is widely accepted, the magnitude of the same is highly debated in the literature. Whole range of possibilitie...

Since the 1990s, private providers have made a significant contribution to increasing the size of the schooling marketplace. However, qualitative data collected as part of the probe Revisited survey in 2006-07 reveals that the expanded school market has become a new locus along which existing social inequalities are being reproduced and entrenched....