Evaluation of different environmental policies, regulations and programs and their implications for sustainable development

Governments and other organizations in South Asia put forward a variety of regulations and policies to manage local to global environmental problems. There is a need to examine alternate policy options and to evaluate their impacts in order to ensure that we are on a sustainable path. Under this theme, research will focus on:

a) program evaluation of the impacts of environmental policies, regulations and programs; and

b) assessment of the economic incentives associated with different regulatory and market mechanisms and their contribution to policy compliance.