Vacancy Announcement Environmental Economist, SANDEE Deadline: 30th June 2008 SANDEE Sunderban Study in the News - Tourism benefits elude Sunderbans If you are booking a package tour to the Sunderbans carrying supplies from the city and with boarding and lodging completely aboard the vessel, you may be taking in your fill of the mysterious mangrove world but you are giving it nothing back in return. Readmore » Dissemination Workshop Tourism in the Sundarbans and Conservation Institutions, Buxa Tiger Reserve, Kolkata, 13th June, 2008 16th Biannual Research and Training Workshop Bangkok, Thailand 30th June - 3rd July, 2008 Program Evaluation for Environment and Resource Economists AIT CC, Pathumthani, Thailand 4th July, 2008 Promise, Trust and Evolution: Managing the Commons of South Asia - SANDEE Book This book, edited by SANDEEites Rucha Ghate, N.S. Jodha and Pranab Mukhopadhyay, was recently published by Oxford University Press, UK. The contributors to the book range from Sir Partha Dasgupta in Cambridge to a host of colleagues from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. The book is largely based on SANDEE research. The book is available from Oxford University Press   Annual Report 2007 Newsletter No. 16, Spring 2008 Climate Science and Policy Bangkok, Thailand 12th -13th Jan. 2008 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Gothenburg, Sweden, 25-28 June 2007 Grant Receipient January 2008 Policy Brief No. 24 Mangroves are best defence against cyclones Read the Full Policy Brief by Saudamini Das, a SANDEE Research Associate New Bibliography on Economics of Climate Change Working Paper 24-07 Shifting Cultivation and its Alternatives in Bangladesh: Productivity, Risk and Discount Rate by M. A. Monayem Miah and S. M. Fakhrul Islam John Kenneth Galbraith Prize 2007 to Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta We are delighted to announce that Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta has won the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize 2007 given by the American Agricultural Economics Association for 2007. The 2006 recipient was Prof. Ken Arrow. Congratulations from all of us!

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