About the Book: Hill Economies and Sustainable Development In India Emerging
Realities
This book is a compendium of 22 research papers presented at the National
Seminar on Hill Economies and Sustainable Development in India: Challenges and
Prospects organised by the Centre for Development Studies. Department of
Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar. Sustainable development has become
a buzz word in development literature in view of growing degradation of natural
resources. It is important to promote sustainable development to ensure
efficiency and intergenerational equity in resource use and sharing of benefits.
The hill region of India comprises of 11 States. Each of them has its own
comparative advantage as well as