Economic Growth and Ecological Sustainability in India

The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mukhopadhyay, Pranab ^a   Shyamsundar, Priya ^b  

^a GOA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Economic sustainability; Forest cover; Growth strategy; Indian economy; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924966220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734580.013.0020     Document Type: Chapter

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