| List of Tables and Figures | x |
| About the Authors | xiv |
| Foreword | xxi |
| Acknowledgements | xxiii |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Section I: Theoretical Perspectives |
| Chapter 1: Carbon Capturing Smart Construction Industry Model to Foster Green and Sustainable Total Factor Productivity Growth of Industries | |
| Begum Sertyesilisik | 11 |
| Chapter 2: Trade-Off Between Environmental Emission and Consumption and Some Related Issues: An Optimal Growth-Theoretic Analysis | |
| Mainak Bhattacharjee and Debashis Mazumdar | 25 |
| Chapter 3: Politics, Development and Environment: Question of Sustainability | |
| Md. Saifullah Akon, Md. Juel Mia and Rathindra Nath Biswas | 39 |
| Chapter 4: Environmental Emission, Green Technology and International Trade | |
| Nilendu Chatterjee and Tonmoy Chatterjee | 53 |
| Chapter 5: The Role of Nuclear Energy to Reduce Carbon Emission | |
| Serhat Yüksel, Hasan Dinçer, Çağatay Çağlayan and Gülsüm Sena Uluer | 67 |
| Chapter 6: Politic, Economic and Environmental Dimensions of Water Resources: The Jordan Perspective | |
| Egemen Sertyesilisik and Mehmet Akif Ceylan | 79 |
| Section II: Empirical Perspectives |
| Chapter 7: The Influence of Energy Consumption, Economic Growth, Industrialisation and Corruption on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from Selected Asian Economies | |
| Sarbapriya Ray, Ishita Aditya and Mihir Kumar Pal | 93 |
| Chapter 8: Economics of Environmental Emission: A Theoretical Appraisal on Solovian Line and an Empirical Overhaul | |
| Mainak Bhattacharjee, Sanghita Ghosh and Dipti Ghosh | 111 |
| Chapter 9: Long-run and Short-run Linkages Between Efficiency of Energy Use in National Output and Carbon Emission: Analysis for the Panel of South Asian Nations | |
| Imran Hussain, Swarup Samanta and Ramesh Chandra Das | 125 |
| Chapter 10: People’s Awareness on Improvement in Environmental Quality in the Industrial Belts of West Bengal: An Assessment Through Contingent Valuation Method | |
| Nilendu Chatterjee | 139 |
| Chapter 11: A Time Series Analysis of Productivity Growth and Environmental Emission in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry | |
| Md Rakibul Hasan, Mihir Kumar Pal and Pinki Bera | 155 |
| Chapter 12: Globalisation and Carbon Emission: Lessons from the Developing Economies | |
| Madhabendra Sinha | 169 |
| Chapter 13: Does Air Pollution Affect Labour Productivity in Indian Manufacturing? Evidence from State-level Data | |
| Susobhan Maiti and Chandrima Chakraborty | 183 |
| Chapter 14: Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture in India: Emerging Pathways for Growth and Sustainability | |
| Amartya Pani and Pulak Mishra | 195 |
| Chapter 15: Impact of Environmental Regulations on Inward FDI in Emerging Countries: A Static Panel Data Approach | |
| Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and Dipankar Das | 215 |
| Chapter 16: Economic, Environmental and Social: Three Components to Measure the Perception of Sustainable Development | |
| Enrico Ivaldi, Andrea Ciacci and Riccardo Soliani | 229 |
| Chapter 17: Impact of Pollution and Economic Growth on the Maldives and Bangladesh: Interrogative Economic Development and Environmental Governance | |
| Debasish Nandy | 249 |
| Chapter 18: Measuring TFPG and Its Components Using Frontier Approaches: A Study of 4-Digit Manufacturing Industries of Chemical and Chemical Products in India | |
| Prasanta Kumar Roy and Mihir Kumar Pal | 261 |
| Chapter 19: The Implication of Pollution Control Acts & Protocols and COVID-19 on Air Quality: A Case Study of Mumbai, India | |
| Shrabanti Maity, Ummey Rummana Barlaskar and Nandini Ghosh | 277 |
| Chapter 20: Smart City Mission and Urban Environmental Sustainability in India | |
| Daisy Singh and Pulak Mishra | 291 |
| Chapter 21: Energy Intensity, Capacity Utilisation and Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Iron and Steel Industry: A Cost Function Approach: 1980–1981 to 2016–2017 | |
| Mihir Kumar Pal, Pinki Bera and Md Rakibul Hasan | 313 |
| Chapter 22: A Joyless City: Long-Run Trend of Air Pollution Levels of Kolkata, India | |
| Asish Kumar Pal and Atanu Sengupta | 331 |
| Chapter 23: Emission Intensity of Indian Unorganised Manufacturing Enterprises: Effect of Firm Characteristics and Capital Intensity | |
| Akash Dandapat and Pinaki Das | 343 |
| Index | 357 |