The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE)
5th Biennial Conference
January 21-23 2009

 

Technical Session-I (Sub Themes F and G)

Sub Theme F: Gender Issues in Environmental Governance
Sub Theme G: Law, Judiciary and Environmental Governance

Chairperson: Dr. Purnamita Dasgupta, Associate Professor, IEG, Delhi

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
F 01	Sahu Nirmal Chandra, Bali Santosh Kumar, Issac Aleyamma (paper to be presented by Dr. Mrutyunjaya Mishra)	Economy of the Fisherwomen in Ganjam District of Orissa: Conditions for Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development.
F 02	Sharma Shobha, Dr. Alokkumar	Environment Governance – The Need of Gender Dimension
F 03	Tyagi Rani	Role of Mountain Women in Environment Governance in India.
G 01	Malik Arun Kumar	Political Assessment of Water Governance.
G 02	Sahu Geetanjoy	Implication of Judicial Intervention on Environmental Jurisprudence in India: Contributions and Complications
G 03	Shastry Pooja, Rashmi Bela	Need of separate Environment Courts in India.

Technical Session-I (Sub Themes H and I)

Sub Theme H: Global Environmental Governance – Climate Change, WTO, etc.
Sub Theme I : Alternate frameworks for Environmental Governance – Green Parties, Green Consumerism, Etc

Chairperson: Prof. Gopal Kadekodi, Former Director, ISEC, Bangalore

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
H 01	Kumar Deepesh, Bhaskar Banerji	Global Environmental Governance – Climate Change, WTO, etc.
H 02	Mansatta Bhargav	Global Environmental Governance – Climate Change, WTO, etc. WTO and Environmental Issues.
H 03	Kakkar Jhalak	The Scope and Limitation of CDM towards improving the Global Environment.
I 01	Prasad M.S.V., B. Sandhya Sri	Corporate Environmental Governance What do stakeholders expect?
I 02	Shukla Nimisha	Self-discipline as a Regulatory Instrument for Environmental Governance (EG) and Gandhian Approach.
I 03	B. Sandhya Sri , Prasad M.S.V.	An assessment of Environmental Governance among learning stakeholders in India.

Technical Session-II D

Sub Theme D: Markets & Environmental Governance, Carbon Credits, etc.

Chairperson : Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh, Senior Vice President, MCX Academia of Economic Research, Mumbai

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
D 01	Gupta Anita Chattopadhyay	An Investigation into the relationship between Fish Biodiversity and Profit Maximization.
D 02	Kashwan Prakash	“REDD Blues”: Trading In Forestry Carbon Credits Without Trading Off Sustainability”
D 04	Srivastava S K, Kumar Ranjit, Singh R P	Irrigation Development and Groundwater Extraction in Uttar Pradesh state: Emerging Issues of Distribution and Sustainability
D 05	Mr. Thomas Alex	Green Marketing Economy: A Model that Leads Market Economy in to ‘Common Future’

Technical Session-II (Sub Theme E)

Sub Theme E: Information Knowledge and IPR Regimes for Environmental Governance

Chairperson : Dr. Sundararaman. Former General Secretary, IPCC, Geneva

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
E 01	Lalitha N., Vishvanathan P K	Pesticide Applications in BT cotton Farms: Issues relating to Environment and Non Tariff Barriers.
E 02	Mitra Ananya, Mukherji Protyaya	Fraternizing with the Enemy: A Reassessment of the Conflict(S) between Environmental Governance and IPRs
E 03	Sabharwal Shruti, Kripalani Rahul	Defining the role and Scope of I.P.R. in the Realm of Environmental Governance in India:

Technical Session-III (Sub Theme A)

Sub Theme E: Emerging Concepts and Applications of Interdisciplinary Knowledge involving Ecology and Economics.

Chairperson : Prof. Joan Martinez Alier, Former President, ISEE

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
A 01	Gupta Vijaya, Hegde D S, Mythili G, Patil Rajesh	Valuation of Urban Environmental Amenities in Mumbai and its Suburbs: A Hedonic Pricing Approach.
A 02	Somnath Mukharjee, Chattopadhyay Pranab Kumar	Ecological Degradation and the Tribal Livelihood in Purulia, A District, W.B.
A 03	Prof. Parthasarathy R., Raja Soumini	A Paradox in Environment and Economic Development in the context of Probable Impacts due to Sea Level in Low Elevation Coastal Zones: The Case of Surat City.
A 04	Sharma Rakesh Kumar, Sankhayan Prem Lall, Singh Ranveer	Analysis of Land Use Changes and Forest Degradation in a Micro Watershed of Himachal Himalaya “An Application of Bio-Economic Modeling”
A 05	Srinivasan Jeena T Reddy V Ratna	Waste water Irrigation in the Peri-Urban areas of Hyderabad: A Case Study of the Health Risks

Technical Session-III (Sub Theme B)

Sub Theme D: Regulatory Institutions Regulatory Failures, Pollution Control Boards, EIA Debate, Etc.

Chairperson : Prof. Amita Shah, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
B 01	Mukherjee Aparajita	Environmental Impact of some Rural Industrialization Programmes in West Bengal: Need for new Instrument of Environmental Governance.
B 02	Sathyapalan Jyothis, Srinivasan Jeena T	Maintaining a viable small-scale Fishery: A Study of Regulatory Failures and Over Capitalization in the Palk Bay Fishery.
B 03	Sekar C., Chandrasekeran M., and Maheswari M	An Inquiry into the Industrial Growth, Agricultural Production System and Environmental Deterioration in Bhavani Taluk of Tamil Nadu.
B 04	Mishra Mrutyunjaya, Sahu Nirmal Chandra	Environmental Governance and State Pollution Control Boards.
B 05	Chandramohan B.P., Bharathi D.	Role of Public Governance in the Conservation of Urban Wetland System: A Study of Pallikkaranai Marsh
B 06	Datta Ashokkumar	The Incidence of Fuel Taxation in India
B 07	Gulati Monish	Improving Environmental Compliance through Mandatory Disclosures: A Home Grown Model for Indian States
B 08	Dr. Kaushik Gupta	Pollution Control and Welfare in General Equilibrium: is there a Trade Off between Tax and Standard?
B 09	Dr. Leena Thatte and Ms. Sujata Khadilkar	Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of Solid Waste Management Practices in Navi Mumbai

Technical Session-IV (Sub Theme C)

Sub Theme D: Institutions for Natural Resources Management and Needs for Innovation.

Chairperson : Prof. R. Parthasarathy, Director, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad

S.No.	Name of Paper Presenters	Title
C 01	Banerjee Sudeshna	Overseeing the Disappearance of an Ecosystem: Governance in West Bengal and the Wetlands to the East of Kolkata.
C 02	Mishra Prajna Paramita Jagannath Harish Pranav	Corporate Social Responsibility in Coal Mining: A Case of Singareni Collieries Company.
C 03	Nagar Shailesh	Biofuels in India: Contextualizing the Discourse.
C 04	Puttaswamaiah S., Raju K V	Compensation and Reward for Ecosystems Services: A New Approach for Natural Resource Management.
C 05	Dr. Tapas Kumar Sarangi	An analysis of Forest Institutions in Orissa
C 06	Dr. N C Narayanan and Ms. Jayati Chourey	Environmental Governance: Concept, Complexity and Contextual Illustration through the Case of Three Indian Wetlands