Global Change, Ecosystems, Sustainability: Theory, Methods, Practice

Pranab Mukhopadhyay is with the Department of Economics, Goa University. He studied at Presidency College (now Presidency University), Kolkata, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and is a Fellow of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). His current research interest has been ecosystem services, institutions, and development.

Nandan Nawn is an Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Policy Studies, TERI University, New Delhi, where he teaches various courses in the interface of environment, development, and economics. He is an economist by disciplinary training with a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests lie in ecological economics, agrarian studies, and environment and development. His works have been published in various journals including , and Recently, he has co-edited . Presently, he is a co-editor of the “Review of Environment and Development” in and the Secretary of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE).

Kalyan Das is with OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati. He obtained his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His present research interests are industry, environment, labour market, and livelihood issues, and he is involved in a number of research projects on Northeast India.

Ramachandra Bhatta is ICAR Emeritus Scientist (economics) and was with National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management. Earlier, he was associated with Erasmus Mundus Program of the European Union at Belgium and also a SANDEE Fellow/Consultant at Maldives during 2008–09.

Rabindra N. Bhattacharya is currently Honorary Adjunct Professor, School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Areas of his research interests include environmental economics and development economics. He has published in almost all the leading journals on environmental and development economics and supervised many PhD scholars.

Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati obtained his PhD in economics from Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. Currently he is with Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad. He will be joining Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati in September 2017. His research interests include climate change economics, economics of adaptation, loss and damage, natural resource management, impact evaluation, environmental economics, and development economics. He has published several research papers in the peer reviewed journals such as , , , , , and .

Kanchan Chopra was Director and Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, till 2009. She has published extensively and her latest book is titled . She is a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm, and of SANDEE. In 2011, she was elected Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences. In 2016, she received the Boulding Award conferred by the International Society for Ecological Economics.

Narendra Nath Dalei is presently with the Department of Economics and International Business in University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun. He is a recipient of certified reviewer award (2014) and outstanding reviewer award (2015) from . His current areas of research are on degraded ecosystems, mining activities, and livelihood patterns; climate change and agricultural ecosystems; and energy and environmental interactions. He has published several research papers in national and international journals of repute.

Saudamini Das is NABARD Chair Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth. She is presently a Fellow of SANDEE and has been a Maler Scholar at Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. She works on environmental and climate change issues, including extreme events. Her works have been published in journals such as and , besides as book chapters.

Vikram Dayal works at the Institute of Economic Growth. He is the author of the book titled , Springer Briefs in Economics series in 2014. In 2009, he co-edited the with Kanchan Chopra.

Utpal Kumar De is currently Head, Department of Economics, the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. His research interests are agricultural economics, issues on environmental and natural resource management, and empowerment of women. Besides completing a number of research projects, he has published 7 books and 75 research articles in various reputed international and national journals.

Sagar Dhara is a male and belongs to an upper caste and class, and to the most rapacious predator species that ever stalked the Earth—humans, and to a net destructive discipline—engineering, that has to take more than a fair share of the responsibility for bringing Earth and human society to tipping points.

Anantha Kumar Duraiappah is with the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), New Delhi. He has obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Texas in Austin, United States. He is an experienced environmental development economist with more than two decades of experience at the international level. His work focuses largely on the equity of access and use of ecosystem services. He has been the Executive Director of International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) hosted by the United Nations University, Bonn, Germany, and Chief of the Ecosystem Services and Economics Unit of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya, apart from teaching at universities in Singapore, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Marina Fischer-Kowalski is professor of Social Ecology and Founder of the Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, and is presently with Alpen Adria University and the University of Vienna. She has obtained her PhD in sociology from the University of Vienna. She is former President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and co-editor of the . Her latest book is .

Nilanjan Ghosh is a Senior Economic Advisor at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), New Delhi, and Senior Fellow at the Observation Research Foundation (ORF), Kolkata. An ecological economist by training, he obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. His publications include six books and a host of research papers in journals such as , , , , and , as well as book chapters.

Santadas Ghosh is with the Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He is a Fellow of SANDEE (Kathmandu) and a Senior Asian Fellow of Asian Centre for Development (Bangladesh). He worked extensively in remote islands in the Sundarbans delta in India, with his primary survey-based research work sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (Government of India), NABARD, and ICSSR. His work contributed to several book chapters in edited volumes on environment and development published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

Haripriya Gundimeda is with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and President of the International Urban Biodiversity Network. She had studied at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. Her research has been in diverse areas of environmental economics, energy economics, green accounting, and economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. She has written several monographs on incorporating natural resources and human capital into the national accounts, besides being the coordinating lead author for the chapter on Scenarios and Modelling of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Biodiversity for the Asia Pacific Regional Assessments.

Yamini Gupt is presently with the Department of Business Economics in University of Delhi. Her recent research has been on climate change and the waste sector; degraded ecosystems and change in livelihood pattern; and the economics of the waste sector, having worked on both formal and informal sectors (including hazardous waste). She has to her credit several publications and completed international and Indian projects in these areas.

Md Hafiz Iqbal is a Bangladesh Civil Service Cadre Officer and is with Edward College. He received his BSS (economics) and MSS (economics) from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Later, he did MS (development economics) from Hiroshima University, Japan, and MSc (climate change and development) from Independent University, Bangladesh.

Promita Mukherjee is currently a PhD Scholar at the Department of Economics, the University of Calcutta. Her area of research deals with forest conservation and rural livelihood. She has also published a couple of research articles in some leading journals.

Lekha Mukhopadhyay has obtained her PhD from the University of Calcutta and is presently Associate Professor in the Economics department of Jogamaya Devi College, University of Calcutta. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in Environmental Leadership Program (2012–13) and World Bank Post-doctoral Fellow (2001–02). For a number of research works, she collaborated with various internationally reputed universities and research institutes, including Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), United States and Asia, University of California Riverside, United States, and SANDEE. Her research interests encompass environmental planning and management, mining-environment-economy, common property resources, and participatory forest management.

M.N. Murty is a Professor of Economics (Retired), Institute of Economic Growth. He is currently Visiting Honorary Professor, TERI University, and Fellow, SANDEE. He specializes in public economics and environmental and resource economics. He has published 10 books including 6 books on environment and resource economics, and a large number of research papers in national and international journals of economics.

Priya Parasuram is presently with National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Chennai. Her research interest includes social aspects of the coastal vulnerability and coastal management, traditional wisdom, regional- and national-level solutions for livelihood security, and concepts on improved community-level resilience against coastal hazards.

Rajakumari S. is presently with National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Chennai. She has worked with several coastal/marine research studies, especially on pollution monitoring, delineation of sediment cells, assessment of tourism carrying capacity along the East coast of Tamil Nadu, multi-criteria analysis using remote sensing data, and coastal fishing space modelling.

Biswajit Ray is with the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. His research focuses on issues relating to environmental economics, experimental economics, social economics, and gender and development. He has published several research papers from leading publishers and also served as a referee of several journals.

Lok Mani Sapkota has been working in the different aspects of participatory forest management in Asia and the Pacific. He has MSc in natural resources management from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and is currently associated with RECOFTC—the Center for People and Forests, Thailand.

Anke Schaffartzik enjoys finding meaning through number crunching. As a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, she has immersed in an interdisciplinary environment in which collaboration with ecological economists and political ecologists allows her to investigate linkages between resource use and socio-economic development, focusing on international resource use and trade.

Stephen C. Smith is with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University, Washington, DC. Smith received his PhD in economics from Cornell University, New York. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, a Jean Monnet Research Fellow, an IZA Research Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, a member of the Advisory Council of BRAC USA, and an Associate Editor of the . Smith has co-authored (with Michael Todaro) , authored , and co-edited (with Jennifer Brinkerhoff and Hildy Teegen) . He has also authored or co-authored about 45 journal articles, numerous book chapters, and other publications.

Amarnath Tripathi doctorate in economics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, is with the Institute of Economic Growth. His research interests include agriculture, natural resource management, food security, food system, and climate change. He has published several articles in journals of high repute, such as Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, and Economic and Political Weekly.

P.K. Viswanathan serves as Professor (Economics) at the Amrita School of Business, Amrita University, Kochi, India. Earlier he was with Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad. He has obtained his PhD in economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Mysore University, Bengaluru. His research and teaching interests relate to economics of natural resources management; agrarian transformation and rural livelihoods; aspects of technology, institutions, policies, and governance; and Welfare Impacts of Trade Certifications in India's Plantation Sector.