Background
Bandyopadhyay was born in Kolkata, India in 1947.
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The book is a scholarly presentation on various issues pertaining to water resource management and agriculture practices. These include water contamination and health; trade-off between private benefits and sustainable development; and trade and environment. The volume makes a significant contribution to methodologies for assessing environmental and economic costs and identification of appropriate policy framework for abatement. A special feature of the book is that it seeks to integrate the issues of suitability across water use for human consumption and for agricultural production by exploring a broad conceptual framework. Case studies from a number of countries such as India, Bangladesh, Belgium, and the European Union are covered.
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Bandyopadhyay was born in Kolkata, India in 1947.
He received an Master of Technology degree in 1969 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1976 from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
In December 1992 he retired from his position as Professor and Head of the Center for Development and Environment Policy at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. An internationally renowned professional on public interest research and environmental policy, Bandyopadhyay has authored fourteen critically acclaimed books and monographs, in addition to 130 papers and articles He has delivered invited lectures in many parts of the world.
After obtaining his doctorate, he turned his academic interest to the interdisciplinary area of Science and the natural Environment.
He soon got deeply interested in researching the reasons behind the forest rights movement in the Indian Himalaya, widely known as the Chipko Andolan. His professional life soon started to revolve around environment and environmental movements.In 1977 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States of America, as a visiting post-doctoral fellow in the area of science and economic policy.
Bandyopadhyay is closely associated with environmental research in South Asia, especially on issues related to the rivers emerging from the Himalaya. In 1997 he was invited by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) to establish the Centre for Development and Environment Policy.
He retired from his position at IIMC and spent a year (2015) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Visiting Professor.
He is adviser to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (International Union for Conservation of Nature) New Delhi, Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, Medford, United States of America.
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He has been a member of the faculty at Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, the International Academy of Environment (International Aero Engines), Geneva.