CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
1.Environmental Governance: The Crucial Interface of Science, Economics and Policy
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Kanchan Chopra and Nilanjan Ghosh 1
SECTION 1: APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
2.The Politics of Environmental Science: Recent Trends and Important Questions 17
Tim Forsyth
3.Segmented Knowledge, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Governance 32
Richard B. Norgaard
4.Climate Change and Environmental Governance 47
Nitin Desai
5.Environmental Governance and IP'CC 59
N. Sundararaman
6.Judicialization of Environmental Governance in India and its Implications 72
Geetanjoy Sahu
SECTION 2: IMPERATIVES AND INSTANCES
7.Ecological Distribution Conflicts and Economic Growth 101-J. Martinez-Alier
8.Role of Ecological Economics in Policy-Making 133
Kirit S. Parikh
9.The Future of Indian Agriculture 145
Yoginder K. Alagh
10.Is JFM Really Helping Communities and Forests? Need to Focus on Institution Building
Rucha Ghate, Harini Nagendra and Deepshikha Mehra 163
11.Overseeing the Disappearance of an Ecosystem: Governance in
West Bengal and the Wetlands to the East of Kolkata 190
Sudeshna Banerjee
12.Biofuel Policy Process in India: Context, Actors and Discourses 226
Shailesh Nagar
SECTION 3: METHODS AND TOOLS
13.Self-discipline as a Regulatory Instrument for Environmental Governance (EG) and Gandhian Approach 265
Nimisha Shukla
14.Forest Certification: A Voluntary Instrument for Environmental Governance 281
Karin Kaechele, Peter May, Eeva Primmer and Grit Ludivig
15.Pollution Control and Welfare in General Equilibrium:
Is there a Tradeoff between Tax and Standard? 301
Kausik Gupta
16.Dynamics of Land Use Changes and Forest Degradation in a
Himalayan Watershed: An Application of Bio-economic Modelling 316
Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Prem Lai/ Sankbayan and Ranveer Singh
17.An Investigation into the Relationship between Fish Biodiversity and Profit Maximization
Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta 340
Index 371
Contributors 379
The Editors 385