The Blue Economy An Asian Perspective

Dr. Somnath Hazra is a trained ecological economist, with expertise in climate change economics, forest economics, sustainable development, ecosystem services, environmental valuation and policy analysis. He has vast research experience in different Indian research centres as well as teaching experiences at UG and PG level in different universities in West Bengal. He has experience in managing and executing development programmes in various capacities for government, international development organizations and the private sector. He has visited different countries all over the world for performing different project assignments and also for the presentation of research articles on climate change and environmental and development economics. He has more than 50 research articles and six edited volumes related to environmental economics and sustainable development to his credit. 

Dr. Anindya Bhukta , an Associate Professor of Economics in a college in rural West Bengal, is well known for his scholarly articles on Economics and Environment and also for a few outstanding text books in Economics. He has so far written more than 300 hundreds articles on these two subjects. He has authored nearly 70 books in Bengali and English, among which the most remarkable are his two dictionaries in Bengali, one on Economics and the other on Environment. One of his Bengali books on the ‘History of Indian Planning’ has been highly acclaimed by the readers. He is also very popular to the readers in Bengal for his creative writings. The main essence of his writings is lucidity of language, easy presentation with an in-depth analysis of the subject matter. Presently he is editing an online internationally peer-reviewed journal ‘Economy Polity Environment’.