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IIT Kharagpur
CURRICULUM VITAE
Amrita Basu (Sengupta)
AddressC/O. Dr Subhabrata Sengupta, B-402, Doctor’s Quarters, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Tadong, Gangtok, Sikkim. Mobile No: +91-9474355459.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Work Experience
• Currently working as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Management Studies, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim, from February 2006.
• Worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Wetland Management and Ecological Design, Government of West Bengal from August 2001 to July 2002
Education
Passed Masters with 1st Class in Economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 2001.
Publications
“Sustainable Development of Natural Resources: An Indian Perspective” with N. C. Nayak, published in Kaushik Deb and Leena Srivastava (eds.), “Transition towards Sustainable Development in South Asia", The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi.
“Meeting Millennium Declaration Goals in India: Rhetoric and Realities” with N. C. Nayak was published in M. C. Behera (eds.) “Perspectives of Rural Development”, Common Wealth Publishers, New Delhi.
“Sustainability Revisited: Development and the Environmental Degradation in the forestry Sector” with N. C. Nayak, Social Science Abstracts, Volume xxvii, Indian Academy of Social Sciences. India.
“Underlying Factors of Forest Cover Change in Orissa, India” with N.C. Nayak accepted by Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier.
“Assessing Forest Cover Change and Relative Forest Sustainability Index for the Districts of Orissa” with N. C. Nayak, submitted to the Journal of Regional Science, Wiley.
“Determining Forest Sustainability and Factors Causing Forest Cover Change: A Review” with N.C. Nayak, submitted to the Journal, Development and Change, Wiley.
“Environmental Quality and Economic Growth: Some Empirical Evidences” published in Jha and Munjal (eds.), “Bio-Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in North East India: Status, Vision and Challenges”, Readworthy Publications.
