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About the Book

The present book is designed with twofold objectives. One is to build the capacity of civil society organisations to participate in and lead ecological economics research on sustainability issues for the benefit of their organisational goals, while other is to enrich ecological economics research with highly valuable activist knowledge. This book is compilation of 84 chapters, covering all the aspect of ecological economics that will be a reference tool for the concepts and methods of ecological economics and political ecology.

About the Book

Ravi Ghosh is an ecological economist by training, with interests in environmental and development economics, and commodity derivatives markets. He obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and Masters’ in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has been involved in various global environmental assessments, including the UNEP’s flagship GEO-4 as lead author. He has conducted research and consultancy projects funded by illustrious donors like WWF, UNCTAD, UNEP, and many others. He has published four books, and a host of peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, apart from popular articles in newspapers and periodicals. Presently, he is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University in Sweden.