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71: Options and Determinants of Rice Residue Management Practices in the South-West Region of Bangladesh

Mohammed Ziaul Haider

70: Measuring Health Benefits from Air Pollution Reduction in Kathmandu Valley

Naveen Adhikari

69: Analyzing Institutions in Resource and Development Econometrics: Recognizing Institutions, Exploring Levels and Querying Causes

Vikram Dayal

68: Is the Deposit Refund System for Lead Batteries in Delhi and the National Capital Region Effective?

Yamini Gupt

67: Inclusive National Accounts: Introduction

Partha Dasgupta

66: Causes of Emissions from Agricultural Residue Burning in North-west India: Evaluation of a Technology Policy Response

Ridhima Gupta

65: Consumer Responses to Incentive to Reduce Plastic Bag Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Urban India

Kanupriya Gupta

64: Indigenous Communities, Cooperation, and Communication: Taking Experiments to the Field

Rucha Ghate, Suresh Ghate and Elinor Ostrom

63: Estimating the Value of Statistical Life in Pakistan

Rafiq Muhammad

62: Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Waste-Water Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands

Vivekan, A Mukherjee and Gautam Gupta

61: The Welfare Impacts of Leasehold Forestry in Nepal

Bishnu Prasad Sharma

60: Motives for Firms to Adopt Solid Waste Management Controls: The Case of Food Processing Sector in Sri Lanka

Udith Jayasinghe-Mudalige and Menuka Udugama

59: Rights, Responsibilities and Resources: Examining Community Forestry in South Asia

Priya Shyamsundar and Rucha Ghate

58: Valuing the Recreational Uses of Pakistan's Wetlands: An Application of the Travel Cost Method

Ali Dehlavi and Iftikhar Adil

57: User-based Financing of Marine Protection in the Maldives

Mahadev G. Bhat, R. C. Bhatta and Mohamed Shumais

56: Transactions Matter but They Hardly Cost: Irrigation Management in the Kathmandu Valley

Ram Ch and Ra Bhattarai

55: Targeting and Distribution of Post-Tsunami Aid in Sri Lanka: A Critical Appraisal

Asha Gunawardena and Kanchana Wickramasinghe

54: Are Private Defensive Expenditures against Storm Damages Affected by Public Programs and Natural Barriers? Evidence from the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh

Sakib Mahmud and Edward Barbier

53: Joint Forest management, Role of Communication, and Harvesting Behavior: Evidence from Field Experiments in India

Rucha Ghate

52: To Develop or to Conserve? The Case of the Diyawanna Oya Wetlands in Sri Lanka

Thusita Dilhani Marawila and Manoj Thibotuwawa

51: Unbelievable but True -- Improved cook-stoves are not helpful in reducing firewood demand in Nepal

Mani Nepal, Apsara Nepal and Kristin Grimsurd

50: Environmental Literacy and NGOs: Experience from the Microcredit Based Social Forestry Program of Proshika in Bangladesh

Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury

49: The Relative Efficiency of Water Use in Bangladesh Agriculture

Nasima Tanveer Chowdhury

48: Designing Economic Instruments and Participatory Institutions for Environmental Management in India

M. N. Murty

47: Morbidity Costs of Vehicular Air Pollution: Examining Dhaka City in Bangladesh

Tanzir Chowdhury and Mohammad Imran

46: Prevalence and Costs of Childhood Diarrhoea in the Slums of Dhaka

M. Jahangir Alam

45: Climate Sensitivity of Indian Agriculture Do Spatial Effects Matter?

K.S. Kavi Kumar

44: Revisiting the Need of Improved Stoves: Estimating Health, Time and Carbon Benefits

Min Bikram Malla Thakuri

43: Productivity of Pesticides in Vegetable Farming in Nepal

Ratna Kumar Jha and Adhrit Regmi

42: Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms? An Analysis of House Damage due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa

Saudamini Das

41: Should Shrimp Farmers Pay Paddy Farmers? The Challenges of Examining Salinisation Externalities in South India

L. Umamaheswari et. Al

40: Rough Guide to Impact Evaluation of Environmental and Development Programs

Subhrendu Pattanayak

39: A Glimpse of the Tiger: How Much are Indians Willing to Pay for It?

Indrila Guha and Santadas Ghosh

38: The Place of Nature in Economic Development

Partha Dasgupta

37: Determinants of Fuelwood Use in Rural Orissa: Implications for Energy Transition

Arabinda Mishra

36: The Economic Impact of Forest Hydrological Services on Local Communities: A Case Study from the Western Ghats of India

Sharachch, Ra Lele, Iswar Patil, Shrinivas Badiger, Ajit Menon and Rajeev Kumar

35: Property Rights and Natural Resources: Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implications of Common Property Resource Management

Bhim Adhikari

34: Poverty, Private Property and Common Pool Resource Management: The Case of Irrigation Tanks in South India

R. Balasubramanian and K.N. Selvaraj

33: Ensuring 'Collective Action' in 'Participatory' Forest Management

Rucha Ghate

32: Awareness and the Demand for Environmental Quality: Drinking Water in Urban India

Jyotsna Jalan, E. Somanathan and Saraswata Choudhuri

31: Demand for Eco-tourism: Estimating Recreational Benefits from the Margalla Hills National Park in Northern Pakistan

Himayatullah Khan

30: Informal Regulation of Pollution in a Developing Country: Empirical Evidence from India

Vinish Kathuria

29: Environmental and Resource Economics

Partha Dasgupta and Karl Goran Maler

28: The importance of being informed: experimental evidence on the demand for environmental quality

Jyotsna Jalan and E. Somanathan

27: Measuring the value of life and limb: Estimating compensating wage differentials among workers in Chennai and Mumbai

by S. Madheswaran

26: Land Degradation and Migration in a Dry Land Region in India

Amita Shah

25: Using Traditional Knowledge for Commercial Innovations: Incentives, Bargaining and Community Profits

K. Aparna Bhagirathy

24: The Trade-Off among Carbon Emissions, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in India

V. P. Ojha

23: Land-use Strategies, Economic Options and Stakeholder Preferences: A Study of Tribal Communities in Forest Peripheries

Seema Purushothaman

22: Heterogeneity, Commons and Privitization: Agrarian Institutional Change in Goa

Pranab Mukhopadhyay

21: Common Property Resources as Development Drivers: A Study of a Fruit Cooperative in Himachal Pradesh, India

Purnamita Dasgupta

20: Local Institutions and Forest Products Extraction: Evidence from Forest Management in Nepal

Arun Khatri-Chhetri

19: Valuation of Urban Air Pollution: A Case Study of Kanpur City in India

Gautam Gupta

18: Transaction Costs and Institutional Innovation: Sustainability of Tank Aquaculture in Sri Lanka

Athula Senaratene and Kalpa Karunanayake

17: Groundwater Irrigation in North India: Institutions and Markets

A. Banerji, J.V. Meenakshi and Gauri Khanna

16: Pesticide Use in the Rice Bowl of Kerala: Health Costs and Policy Options

P. Indira Devi

15: Estimating the Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from West Bengal

Joyashree Roy

14: Can Participatory Watershed Management be sustained? Evidence from Southern India

D. Suresh Kumar

13: Who Collects Resources in Degraded Environment? A Case Study from Jhabua District, India

Neetu Chopra, Supriya Singh, Shreekant Gupta, Urvashi Narain and Klaas Van't Veld

12: Shifting Cultivation and its Alternatives in Bangladesh: Productivity, Risk and Discount Rate

M. A. Monayem Miah and S. M. Fakhrul Islam

11: Discounting Climate Change

Partha Dasgupta

10: Storm Protection by Mangroves in Orissa: An Analysis of the 1999 Super Cyclone

Saudamini Das

9: Does Tourism Contribute to Local Livelihoods? A Case Study of Tourism, Poverty and Conservation in the Indian Sundarbans

Indrila Guha and Santadas Ghosh

8: Managing the Arsenic Disaster in Water Supply: Risk Measurement, Costs of Illness and Policy Choices for Bangladesh

M. Zakir Hossain

7: Pesticide Use in Nepal: Understanding Health Costs from Short-term Exposure

Kishor Atreya

6: Evaluating Gains from De-Eutrophication of the Dutch Canal in Sri Lanka: A Cost Benefit Analysis

W. R. Rohitha

5: Taxing the Pollution: A Case for Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Rubber Production in Sri Lanka

Jagath Edirisinghe, Susantha Siriwardana, Sarath Siriwardana, Punsara Pras and Ith

4: Nepal's Community Forestry Funds: Do They Benefit the Poor?

Ridish K. Pokharel

3: The Environment as a Production Input: A Tutorial

Jeffrey Vincent

2: Estimating Health Benefits when Behaviors are Endogenous: A Case of Indoor Air Pollution in Rural Nepal

Krishna Pd. Pant

1: Air Quality and Cement Production: Examining the Implications of Point Source Pollution in Sri Lanka

Cyril Bogahawatte and Janaranjana Herath