Dr Nandini Dasgupta

Nandini Dasgupta is a socio-economist, working at the interface of environment, institutions and socio-economic issues, with particular focus on industrial pollution in developing economies.  She has undertaken research and project management in over 12 developing and transition economies with issues related to pollution mitigation, institutions and improved environmental governance and consequent socio-economic benefits; energy policy and rural industries; and links between enterprise development, livelihoods and the role of local government; while making findings more widely available through public presentations and publications.  Through her international publications she has also contributed to improved understanding of the complexities of managing and mitigating pollution problems in clusters of industrial units; and to developing workable strategies to address the problems.

As a leading research manager she has organised and participated in symposia and seminars throughout the world. She has developed and delivered strategies for disseminating research outputs. She has contributed to DFID’s energy policy development in 1999 by demonstrating links between energy use-environment-poverty and by identifying sectors and activities where improved energy efficiency could have direct environmental and socio-economic gains for the poor.

Country experience: Albania, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Costa Rica, Bucharest, Bulgaria, India, Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Vietnam.

Research Interests

• Industrial pollution in developing countries and its mitigation through institutional strengthening and improved policy;
• Industrial pollution and governance;
• pollution in small and medium and medium scale units and incentive structures for pollution abatement and compliance; and
• rural energy use; development and livelihoods

Publications

Dasgupta. N. (2006) Capital, State and Petty Trading in Calcutta in Urban Studies,
S. Patel and K. Deb (eds). Oxford University Press

Dasgupta. N. (2003) Benefits of Improved Rice Husk Combustion. DFID-Energy Newsletter No 17 (November)

Dasgupta. N. (2002) Small is not always beautiful: Environmental Issues and Small Industries. In H. Katrak and R. Strange (eds.) Small Enterprises in Developing and Transitional Economies. Palgrave UK. ISBN 0-333-96864-6

Dasgupta. N. (2001) Book Review: India’s Energy: Essays in Sustainable Development. Audinet, P., Shukla, P. & Grare. F. (eds.). Energy and Environment

Shakur, T., Dasgupta. N. & Treloar. D. (2001) Unsustainable Environment and the Cities of the Developing World. Hegemon Press. Liverpool. ISBN: 0-9538098-5-4

Dasgupta. N. (2000) India: Policy Implications for Environmental Management in Small Scale Industries. Small Enterprise Development Vol. 11 No.2

Dasgupta. N. (2000) Environmental Enforcement and Small Industries in India: Re-working the Problem in the Poverty context. World Development. Vol. 28 No. 5

Dasgupta. N. (2000) Energy Efficiency & Environmental Improvements in Small-Scale Industries: present initiatives in India are not working. Energy Policy. Vol.27 No.14, 789-800

Dasgupta. N. (1999) Energy Efficiency and Poverty Alleviation, DFID-Energy Newsletter, No. 8

Dasgupta. N. et al (1999) Energy Efficiency and Poverty Alleviation. DFID-UK, Energy Sub-sector. Project No R7222

Dasgupta. N. (1998) Tall Blunders: Delhi’s Environment & Industrial Pollution: Present Strategies do more Harm than Good. Down to Earth Vol. 7 No. 9. Centre for Science & Environment, New Delhi

Dasgupta. N. (1997) Greening Small Recycling firms: The case of lead smelting units in Calcutta. Environment & Urbanisation, Vol. 9, No. 2

As a team member The Calcutta environmental Management Strategy and Action of GHK(1995)

A Situation Report. Government of West Bengal and ODA

Dasgupta. N & A. Shipley, (1994) Eco-audit of large firms: an assessment of their environmental Practices and strategies in Croydon. London Borough of Croydon

Dasgupta. N.(1992) Petty Trading in the Third World: the case of Calcutta. Avebury, Gower Publishing Group, UK

Dasgupta. N.(1992) Linkage, Heterogeneity and Income Determinants in Petty Trading. World Development, Vol. 20, No. 10

Dasgupta. N.(1991) Capital, The State and Petty trading in Calcutta. Economic and Political Weekly of India July 29, Vol. XIII

Dasgupta. N & Regional imbalance and socio-economic well being in the Eastern States

S. Banerje (1988) of India, in Development of India's Resource base: Patterns, Problems and Prospects, V.Vidynath & R. R. M. Rao (eds.), Gian Publishing House, Delhi

Dasgupta. N. & S. Ghosh (1988) Curriculum in Economic Geography in Calcutta University- a critique. Geographical Review of India. Vol. 50 No. 2 June

Dasgupta. N & Banerje (1986) The Geography Of Socio-Economic Well-Being In Maharastra & S. West Bengal in India Culture, Society and Economy, A.B. Mukerji & A. Ahmad (eds.) Inter India Publication, New Delhi

Dasgupta. N (1984) The Geography Of Socio-Economic Well-Being In India. University of Bombay

Unpublished Reports for Policy Development (available on web)

Dasgupta. N. & Marr. A , Approaches and Strategies for Industrial Effluent Pollution Control in Dhaka. World Bank (2007)

Dasgupta. N (ed.) 2005, Baseline Survey of Households, Enterprise and Socio-economic Infrastructure in five Districts of Bangladesh. (DFID-Bangladesh)

Dasgupta. N., et al. Energy Efficiency and Poverty Alleviation (1998-99) (DFID)

Dasgupta. N. Rice and Livelihoods in the Diversifying Economy of Bangladesh (2001) (PETRRA)

Dasgupta. N., et al. Local Government Institutions in two districts of Madhya Pradesh, India (2002) (World Bank-DFID)

Dasgupta, N. & Marter, A. Local Government Institutions in two districts of Orissa, India (2002). (World Bank-DFID)

Dasgupta. N., Kleih, U. Marter. A., & T. Wandschneider, India: Policy Initiatives for Strengthening Rural Economic Development: Case Studies from Madhya Pradesh and Orissa (Jan 2004). (DFID)