Subject(s): Economic growth -- Biodiversity -- Environmental economics and traditional economics -- Environment, economy and development : Environment and development -- basic concepts and theories : Environmental goods, Consumption and demand, Production and supply, marginal analysis, Government intervention and public policy failure -- basic concepts and theories : Social benefits, costs and welfare function, Pareto Principle of paretian criterion, Prisoners dilemma (PD) game, Olson theory of collective action, Optimal stationary policies for renewable resources, Social cost benefit analysis (SCBA), Cost effectiveness analysis (CEA) -- Environmental valuation : Intangible benefits of the environment -- Environmental accounting : Historical development of national accounts in India, SEEA, Forest resource accounting, Integration of environmental accounts into the system of national accpunts -- Instruments of environment management -- Land and environment : land degradation -- Water and environment : Water resources and water related issues -- Forest and environment : Role of forest in India's economy, Deforestation and degradation of forest and their environmental consequences, Degradation and depletion of forest resources -- Fisheries and environment : Optimal level of harvesting of marine fishes, Instruments of managing fisheries, Policies and programmes for fishery development -- Biodiversity conservation and environment : ecosystem and biodiversity, Biodiversity conservation -- Climate change and environment : Acid rain, Global warming, Ozone depletion, Climatic aberrations -- Ideal environment management policy : Management systems for environment policy, India's environment policy