Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty -- Agricultural sector and environment -- Issues and options to control agricultural nonpoint source pollution / Sacchidananda Mukherjee -- Economics of sustainable shrimp aquaculture in India / Ramachandra Bhatta -- Impact of the monsoon trawling ban on marine fisheries in Tamil Nadu / Ierene Francis Part -- Manufacturing sector and environment -- Economics of "not" controlling pollution / L. Venkatachalam -- Environmental costs of the coal-based thermal power generation in India / Shrabani Mukherjee -- Environmental cost of using top-soil for brick making / Vinish Kathuria and R. Balasubramanian -- Environmental impacts (costs) of hydropower generation in India / Bimlesh Kumar and Achanta Ramakrishna Rao -- Service sector and the environment -- Growing environmental costs of urban water supplies / M. Dinesh Kumar -- Municipal solid waste management in India / Prasenjit Sarkhel -- Environmental cost of biomedical waste management / S. Srividhya and Paul P. Appasamy -- E-waste recycling : bridging the formal-informal divide / Ashish Chaturvedi, Rachna Arora, and Ulrike Killguss -- Trade and environment -- Agriculture and environment in India / Amita Shah -- Is India turning into a pollution haven? / Debashis Chakraborty -- Conclusion / Sacchidananda Mukherjee and Debashis Chakraborty.