Nilanjan Ghosh
Dr. Nilanjan Ghosh (DOB: July 19, 1975) is one of the leading ecological economists and development analysts of South Asia. He is considered a pioneer in the application of neoclassical and heterodox economics in water governance.
Currently, he is a Director at Observer Research Foundation, heading two centres at the Foundation, namely, the Kolkata Centre and the Centre for New Economic Diplomacy. Nilanjan is also the current President, The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) for 2022-24.
His previous positions at various points in time include Senior Fellow and Head of Economics at ORF Kolkata, Senior Vice President & Chief Economist at MCX (I) Limited in Mumbai, and Professor of Econometrics at the TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Delhi.
He visited the Linnaeus University, Sweden, in 2008 and 2015, and has also visited Uppsala University (Sweden), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and Stanford University (USA), at various points in time.
A natural resource economist and econometrician by training, Nilanjan obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and certification in Water Diplomacy from the Harvard University-MIT-Tufts University-housed programme on the subject. His research interests also include international trade and financial markets, viewed through the lens of the developmental discourse.
Till recently, Nilanjan advised WWF India for setting up their Ecological Economics practice. He has conducted a large number of consultancy/advisory assignments for organisations like IUCN, FORMAS-The Swedish Research Council, UNCTAD-India, Chinese Consulate in Kolkata, WWF-UK, IWMI-WLE, World Bank, and many others.
Nilanjan's publications include ten books and monographs (authored and/or edited), and 80+ peer-reviewed research papers in cherished journals like Frontiers in Environmental Science, Water Policy, Conservation and Society, Journal of Index Investing, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Indian Ocean Region, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, etc and chapters in edited volumes, as also Occasional Papers. He is a regular columnist in Indian national dailies and portals like Mail Today, The Hindu Business Line, The Economic Times, The Third Pole, WION, etc.
Nilanjan was Vice President of The Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) during 2012-14, and delivered the Presidential Address at the Seventh Biennial Conference of INSEE in December 2013.
Challenging the neo-Malthusian creed in water conflicts and governance
In 2009, in a paper published in the journal, Water Policy[1], he challenged the "scarcity induces conflicts" thesis, as was largely believed in explanations of water conflicts, and explained that trans-boundary water disputes are functions of "scarcity value" (measures the degree of deprivation and creates the basis for conflicts), rather than the mere physical availability of the resource under consideration.
He continues with this position on challenging the age-old paradigms that govern water in South Asia and more specifically India [2] and emphasizing the need for adopting basin level governance keeping in view the integrity of the ecosystem[3] .
Ecological Economics
Nilanjan's research on valuation of ecosystem services at various scales in India has been significant from various perspectives. In a very recent application, he evaluated the monetary benefits of "managed and strategic retreat" of the population from the Indian Sundarbans Delta, by integrating values of ecosystem services in the cost-benefit matrix of adaptation projects[4] [5] . His research, time and again, has challenged the neoclassical frameworks, in a faith in establishing the heterodox economic frameworks in explaining the challenges at the interface of environment and development [6][7]
References
- ↑ Ghosh, Nilanjan; Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta (2009-04-01). "A scarcity value based explanation of trans-boundary water disputes: the case of the Cauvery River Basin in India". Water Policy. 11 (2): 141–167. doi:10.2166/wp.2009.017. ISSN 1366-7017.
- ↑ "Sustaining the Liquid Mosaic". Economic and Political Weekly. 51 (52): 7–8. 2015-06-05.
- ↑ Ghosh, Nilanjan (2018), Kathuria, Rajat; Ray, Saon; Bandyopadhyay, Kuntala, eds., Low Carbon Pathways for Growth in India, India Studies in Business and Economics, Springer, pp. 161–176, doi:10.1007/978-981-13-0905-2_11, ISBN 978-981-13-0905-2 Missing or empty
|title=(help);|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ Ghosh, Ph.D, Nilanjan (2018-05-01). "Climate Change and Agrarian Systems: Adaptation in Climatically Vulnerable Regions". Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 73.
- ↑ Ghosh, Nilanjan. "Promoting a 'GDP of the Poor': The imperative of integrating ecosystems valuation in development policy". ORF. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
- ↑ Ghosh, Nilanjan; Uddhammar, Emil (2013-10-01). "Tiger, Lion, and Human Life in the Heart of Wilderness: Impacts of Institutional Tourism on Development and Conservation in East Africa and India". Conservation and Society. 11 (4): 375. doi:10.4103/0972-4923.125750. ISSN 0972-4923.
- ↑ Ghosh, Nilanjan (2017), "Ecological Economics: Sustainability, Markets, and Global Change*", Global Change, Ecosystems, Sustainability: Theory, Methods, Practice (First ed.), SAGE Publications, Inc., pp. 10–23, doi:10.4135/9789353280284, ISBN 9789386446466, retrieved 2020-05-26
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