Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability

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Release Date: December, 2019|Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 320
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0315-7
ISBN13: 9781799803157|ISBN10: 1799803155|EISBN13: 9781799803171
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In today’s global economy, the role of public policy in managing and ensuring sustainability is an emerging area of research considering modern day issues such as climate change and the depletion of energy resources. The impact that these environmental concerns have on human life has brought to light a new era of economic theories and initiatives to promote a better lifestyle.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability is an essential reference source that discusses the role of public policy in managing sustainability within a wide variety of professional industries such as health, education, and business. Featuring research on topics such as sustainable finance, environmental regulation, and information economics, this book is ideally designed for environmental and policy scientists, researchers, conservationists, policymakers, government officials, lawmakers, academicians, and students seeking coverage on the practices of sustainability pertaining to economic development.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Eco-Innovation
  • Energy Economics
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Healthcare Services
  • Human Capital Theory
  • Information Economics
  • Private Education Market
  • Renewable Resources
  • Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Finance
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Regarding chapter 9, "Future of Life-Cycle Assessment in a Smart and/or Sustainable World "

This book chapter is dedicated to improve the vision on the role and status of Life Cycle Assessment processes in the future of the world, based on the clarification of the distinction and overlap between Sustainable Development and Smart Development, and in particular, it highlights that "smartness" should be aimed to serve the Sustainable Development Goals. This chapter proposes some shortcuts and practical strategies in this regard through reasoning, review and synthesis of literature, theories and data.

– Aryan Shahabian, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Rituparna Das teaches at the School of Economics and Commerce of Adamas University as Professor. Prior to this, he taught at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies as Associate Professor, headed the Centre for Studies in Banking and Finance, established by the Reserve Bank of India corpus. His PhD on Management and Economics is preceded by dual Master’s in Economics and Management. Earlier he taught at National Law University, National Institute of Bank Management (established by the Reserve Bank of India), National University of Juridical Sciences and Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management. His areas of preference and international publications include Strategies, Bank Risk Management, Financial Economics and Policy Research. He is Life Member of the Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Economic Association and Indian Econometric Society. He received the honours of being ‘Financial Economics and Risk Educator and Author’ from Marquis Who’s Who and ‘One of the IBC’s Leading Educators of the World’ from International Biographical Centre. He was invited for Fulbright Nehru Academic Excellence Fellowship. He is invited to teach by many reputed institutions including City University of Hong Kong. His academic profile is https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=resultslist&authorId=57212055469&zone=.

Nivedita Mandal, Associate Professor and founder Head of the Department of Economics at Adamas University. She specialises on econometrics, microeconomics and financial economics but traverses on a host of interdisciplinary areas like education economics and health economics. She received Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. Previously Professor Mandal was associated with the Management Department, Koneru Lakshmaiah University and the Department of Management Studies, ICFAI University, Hyderabad. There are several reputed conference papers and journal papers to Professor Manda's credit – both national and international. Professor Mandal’s research outputs include papers in reputed peer reviewed journals like Business Science International Research Journal and conferences hosted by Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Currently she is in the Editorial Advisory Board of IGI Global’s book project. For outstanding performance at Adamas University, Professor Mandal has been awarded promotion before time.

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