دانلود کتاب Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Aim and scope
Plan of the book
References
Part I: Agriculture
Chapter 1: Risk and risk management in agriculture
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Nature and source of risks in agriculture
1.2.1 Nature of risk
1.2.2 Sources of farm revenue risk
1.3 Models of decision-making under risk
1.3.1 Expected utility theory
1.3.2 Non-expected utility theory—rank dependent utility theory and cumulative prospect theory
1.3.3 Models based on securebased on security principle – safety principle, safety first, safety fixed and maximin
1.4 Risk and technology adoption
1.5 Risk management and its efficacy
1.5.1 Informal risk management strategies of farmers in rain-fed regions
1.5.2 Formal risk management strategies of farmers in rainfed regions
1.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Assessment of water footprint under wheat cultivation in Uttar Pradesh
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Defining Water Footprint
2.3 Methods and methodology
2.4 Results and discussion
2.5 Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 3: Productive efficiency of agricultural sector in Uttar Pradesh
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Agriculture in Uttar Pradesh: Past and present
3.3 Methodology
3.4 Empirical analyses and findings
3.5 Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Agricultural productivity in Bihar and its determinants: A district-level analysis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Literature on agricultural productivity in various parts of India
4.3 Total factor productivity: An index-based approach
4.4 Empirical work
4.5 Results
4.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Part II: Energy and climate change
Chapter 5: Indian youth’s willingness to pay for climate change policies: A contingent valuation study
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Related literature
5.3 Theoretical framework
5.4 Empirical framework
5.4.1 Results
5.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 6: An advance methodology for estimating the elasticities and rebound effect
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Theoretical discourse on price elasticities and rebound effect
6.3 Household behavior and the AIDS framework
6.4 The case study: Consumption expenditure of households with rural non-farm employment in West Bengal, India
6.4.1 Data
6.4.2 Estimation of elasticities and RE
6.4.3 Regression analysis
6.4.4 Elasticity parameter estimates
6.4.5 Rebound effect
6.5 Summary and conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7: Index decomposition analysis of energy use in India
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Measuring energy intensity
7.3 IDA: Understanding the drivers of change in energy use
7.3.1 LMDI to understand activity, structure and energy intensity–based drivers of change in energy use
7.3.1.1 Additive framework
7.3.1.2 Multiplicative framework:
7.3.2 LMDI to understand the relative strength of the drivers
7.3.3 LMDI with more drivers and more sectors
7.4 Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 8: A framework for renewable energy policy modeling: A multistate model for India
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Policies for renewable energy sources
8.2.1 Market for renewable energy certificates
8.3 Methodology
8.3.1 Logistic supply function for renewable energy/renewable energy certificates
8.4 Models for alternate scenarios
8.4.1 No–renewable energy trade (no-trade model)
8.4.1.1 Renewable energy supply function
8.4.1.2 Renewable energy demand function
8.4.1.3 The equilibrium condition
8.4.1.4 Objective function
8.4.2 RE trade with state-specific RE market (RE_Local Model)
8.4.2.1 Renewable energy supply function
8.4.2.2 Renewable energy demand function
8.4.2.3 The equilibrium condition
8.4.2.4 Objective function
8.4.3 Model III: Renewable energy trade with national renewable energy market
8.4.3.1 Renewable energy supply function
8.4.3.2 RE demand function
8.4.3.3 The equilibrium condition
8.4.3.4 Objective function
8.4.4 National REC market (REC_National Model)
8.4.4.1 Renewable energy certificate supply function
8.4.4.2 Renewable energy certificate demand function
8.4.4.3 The equilibrium condition
8.4.4.4 Objective function
8.4.5 State-specific renewable energy certificate market (REC_Local Model)
8.4.5.1 Renewable energy certificate supply function
8.4.5.2 Renewable energy certificate demand function
8.4.5.3 The equilibrium condition
8.4.5.4 Objective function
8.5 Measure of economic efficiency
8.6 Results and discussion
8.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part III: Environment and resources
Chapter 9: Integrating natural and human factors for sustainable development in Himachal Pradesh
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Tools for analysis
9.2.1 Human indicators (Quality of life)
9.2.1.1 Demographic indicators
9.2.1.2 Infrastructural indicators
9.2.2 Environmental indicators (Quality of environment)
9.3 Demographic indicators
9.3.1 Literacy rate (2011)
9.3.2 Urbanization rate (2011)
9.3.3 Unemployment rate (2011)
9.4 Infrastructural indicators
9.4.1 Educational facilities (2010–2011)
9.4.2 Health facilities (2010–2011)
9.4.3 Communication network (Telephone connections)
9.4.4 Electricity
9.4.5 Banking facilities (Credit–deposit ratio)
9.5 Environmental indicators
9.5.1 Forest land
9.5.2 Culturable wasteland
9.5.3 Barren and un-culturable land
9.5.4 Fallow land
9.5.5 Fertilizer consumption (2010–2011)
9.6 Composite index
9.7 Results and discussion
References
Chapter 10: An input–output approach to study environmental impact
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The input-output approach
10.3 Input–output tables and the fundamental relationships
10.3.1 Basic input–output model
10.4 Environmental studies under input–output framework
10.4.1 Leontief’s model of environmental repercussions
10.5 Industrial structure, technical change and effluent generation
10.6 Empirical analysis using I-O tables
10.7 Water pollution data
10.8 Results and discussion
10.8.1 Changes in aggregate pollution due to change in technology
10.9 Summary and conclusion
References
Appendix 10A
Chapter 11: Investigating the existence of environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the South Asian region
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Theoretical background and review of past studies
11.3 Materials and methods
11.3.1 Data and sources
11.3.2 Econometric strategy
11.4 Results using country-level data for the South Asian region
11.5 Results using state-level data for India
11.6 Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 12: Coping with changing climate: The case of water conservation structures in Eastern India
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Analytical framework, data and methodology
12.2.1 Analytical framework
12.2.1.1 Data
12.2.2 Econometric model specifications
12.2.2.1 Binary logit
12.2.2.2 Multivariate probit model
12.2.2.3 Independent variables and their hypothesized effects
12.3 Results and discussions: Perceptions about and adaptation to climate change
12.3.1 Household perception of climate change
12.3.2 Household adaptation to climate change
12.4 Results and discussion: Determinants of household choice of adaptation strategies
12.5 Conclusion and policy implications
Notes
References
Part IV: Health
Chapter 13: Determinants of child survival at the household level: An insight of the method of factor analysis
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Factor analysis
13.2.1 What are factors?
13.2.1.1 Methods of factoring
13.3 Analysis
13.3.1 Study area
13.3.2 Research design
13.4 Discussion and conclusion
References
Chapter 14: Access to drinking water and the health outcome
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Access to drinking water and health outcomes as a self-selection problem
14.3 Empirical model and the sample
14.4 Estimation results
14.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 15: Role of information in determining the willingness to pay for health insurance
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Health insurance in India
15.3 Factors affecting demand for private health insurance
15.4 Data and descriptive statistics
15.5 Methodology
15.6 Estimation results and discussion
15.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 16: Private and public dimensions to infectious disease risks: A case of Kolkata
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Literature
16.3 Theoretical framework
16.3.1 Model
16.3.2 Comparative statics
16.3.3 Welfare analysis
16.3.4 Valuation of marginal changes in community-level malaria control measures
16.3.5 Valuation of private-level risk-control measures
16.4 Field survey
16.5 Econometric specification
16.5.1 Empirical methods: The “Community-Level Health Intervention” treatment
16.5.2 Empirical methods: The “Private-Level Health Intervention” treatment
16.5.3 A cross-treatment valuation exercise
16.5.3.1 Probit estimation
16.5.3.2 A Likelihood Ratio (LR) test
16.6 Results and Policy
16.6.1 Percentage risk reductions
16.6.1.1 Full sample analysis
16.6.2 Absolute risk reductions
16.6.2.1 Full sample analysis
Notes
References
Part V: Society and policy
Chapter 17: Analyzing the poverty situation in India: Using a multidimensional approach
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Data and methodology
17.2.1 Education
17.2.1.1 Years of schooling
17.2.1.2 Child school attendance
17.2.2 Health
17.2.2.1 Child mortality
17.2.2.2 Nutrition
17.2.3 Standard of living
17.2.3.1 Electricity
17.2.3.2 Improved sanitation
17.2.3.3 Safe drinking water
17.2.3.4 Flooring
17.2.3.5 Cooking fuel
17.2.3.6 Assets
17.3 Results
17.3.1 Correlation analysis
17.3.2 Regression analysis
17.3.3 State-level results
17.4 Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix 17A
Chapter 18: Values, perception and the quality of life: An analytical framework and some critical observations from Sundarbans
18.1 Introduction
18.2 The background of the study
18.2.1 Survey area
18.2.1.1 Sampling design
18.2.2 Analytical framework: Existing work and the current study
18.3 Perception about personal well-being
18.4 Overall perception about public goods
18.5 Perception about community well-being
18.6 Value systems and priorities
18.7 Concluding remarks
References
Chapter 19: Sustainability of loan waiver programs in India
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Uttar Pradesh Gramin Vikas Rin Maa Yojana (2011)
19.3 Theoretical model
19.3.1 Probability of enforcement
19.3.1.1 Optimal choice of consumption
19.3.1.2 Comparative statics
19.3.2 High versus low penalty
19.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 20: Using path analysis to build a sustainable transport service quality model
20.1 Introduction
20.1.1 Literature review—Service quality and sustainability
20.1.2 Social sustainability
20.1.3 Economic sustainability
20.1.4 Environmental sustainability
20.1.5 Technology
20.2 Methodology
20.2.1 Path analysis (PLS–SEM)
20.2.2 PLS-SEM model assessment
20.2.2.1 Step 1: Measurement model assessment
20.2.2.2 Step 1a: Evaluating Variance Inflation Factor (VIF)
20.2.2.3 Step 1b: Evaluating reliability for internal consistency
20.2.2.4 Step 1c: Evaluating convergent validity
20.2.2.5 Step 1d: Evaluating Discriminant Validity
20.2.2.6 Step 1e: Evaluating indicator reliability
20.2.2.7 Step 2: Structural model assessment
20.2.2.8 Step 2a: Evaluating path-coefficients
20.2.2.9 Step 2b: Assessing effect size (f 2)
20.2.2.10 Step 2c: Assessing coefficient of determination (R 2)
20.2.2.11 Step 2d: Assessing predictive relevance (Q 2)
20.2.2.12 Step 3: Mediation analysis
20.2.2.13 Step 4: Moderation analysis
20.2.2.14 Step 5: Model fit assessment
20.2.2.15 Step 5a: Assessing chi-square values
20.2.2.16 Step 5b: Assessing normed fit index values
20.2.2.17 Step 5c: Assessing standardized root mean square
20.3 Conclusion
References
Appendix 20A