The Greening of India

1. National Mission for a Green India - government policy and stated aims - and how well or not they are realised 2. India as a rapidly developing countries - a Bric and the future - the role of the Indian economy and trade 3. Setting the scene -the situation today- social environmental and biodiversity and equality- women - minorities- facts and figures-stats literature GINI, GDP employment -stats 4. Social stats and women maternal mortality- population -recent murder on the bus and what it revealed - important writers and literature changing ideas in India 5. Indian in history and philosophy- eg Ghandi and 19th century- and Empire and 3000 years ago - background to Indian culture 6. Indian Green Buildings and Megacity issues- urban populations 7. Green Farming in India and rural issues and food and India's special biodiversity richness 8. Indian Industry and Environment 9. Green initiatives in India's Four Emerging Sectors: Telecommunications, IT Services, Transport and Banking 10. Renewable Energy, Carbon and its Challenges and climate change 11. Mining and Ecological Degradation 12. Green Health Sector in India 13 Greening Infrastructure in India 14 Beacon development industry and regeneration and green projects in India and geographies of green and other regeneration activity- regional challenges 15 Green accounting in India 16. Green Governance in India 17. Mountain issues 18. Desert issues 19. Water 20 The gifting economy Contents List of Contributors Foreword By Dr Natalie West Kharkongor 23 Part 1: Introduction - Setting the Scene 24 1.1 India: Introduction and Setting the Scene By Christopher Brook Part 2: Economics and Finance in India 33 2.1 Ecology Pricing & Ecology Cess By Dr Natalie West Kharkongor 2.2 Mawlynnong, the cleanest village in Asia By Prof. Dr Natalie West Kharkongor 2.3 Greening of the Economy: The Indian Perspective By Kanupriya Bhagat 2.4 Enriching Greens: Unlocking Investment potential for Green Growth in India By Jiya K. Shahani 2.5 Gifting: the New Approach to Economy By Manan Jain 2.6 Green Gujarat: a blueprint for sustainable development By Indira Dutta 2.7 A 'clean' view through the 'clouds'? : Challenges to community participation and impact of tourism and development in Cherrapunjee and Mawlynnong in Meghalaya" By Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman 2.8 Conservation Challenges and Prospects through Community Based Tourism (CBT) - A Comparative Case chapter of Laokhuwa-Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuaries, Assam By Persis Farooqy 7 The Greening of India: The Economic Miracle Part 3: Business 116 3.1 CSR: A Tool to Create Sustainable Tomorrow By A. Jayakumar and K.Geetha 3.2 Using Qualitative Research methods in Economics Research, examples and proposals By Dr Michael Taylor 3.3 Application of Green Economics in Business and Rural India: methods and tools Dr Natalie West Kharkongor 3.4 Examining and analyzing corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices amongst small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the leather industry of Agra, India By Kanupriya Bhagat Part 4: Nature, Environmental Change & Justice 194 4.1 Working with Nature, not Against it By Ranjit Barthakur 4.2 Green groundwater in India: the chapter of developed technologies for groundwater conservation By Ashok Kumar Maurya 4.3 Towards a People Centred Afforestation Programme for North East India By Abhijit Kumar Bezbarua 4.4 Learning to Re-Value Nature By Kristof and Stacia Nordin 4.5 Developing an ecotourism model for Meghalaya By Prachi Agarwal and Ujjawal Kumar Part 5: Renewable Energy 260 5.1 Renewable Energy - Blowing Right By Dr J Cyril Kanmony and Vinodh K Natarajan 8 The Greening of India: The Economic Miracle Part 6: Social Justice 280 6.1 Green Concern of Indian Education System: Status and Prognosis By Dr Seema Singh 6.2 Maternal Health in India By Dr Katherine Kennet 6.3 Gandhian Green Paradigm: A new vision for sustainable development By Indira Dutta 6.4 Gender and Employment Patterns amongst Indian Entrepreneurs By Michael Taylor Part 7: Green Economics: Aims and Features 333 8.1 What is Green Economics: A New Discipline By Volker Heinemann 8.2 Ten Key Values of Green Economics By Miriam Kennet, Jeffrey Turk, Ben Armstrong - Haworth & Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira 8.3 Green Economics: Its Recent Development and Background By Miriam Kennet and Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira 8.4 Moving From a Linear Economy to a Circular Economy By Bradley Panico 8.5 The Greening of Global Finance: Re-Conceptualizing, Reforming and Reclaiming Finance for Resilience, Survivability and Sustainability in the 21st and 22nd Centuries By Professor Maria Alejandra Madi and Miriam Kennet 9