Energy is a basic prerequisite for the growth and development of national wealth. Based on primary research, Energy Economics and the Environment integrates a network of diverse disciplines to provide a theoretical and practical understanding of the constantly neglected challenges associated with conservation, preservation and sustainability of environment and energy. It highlights the issues and prospects in safeguarding environmental biodiversity and renewable energy efficiency, ecosystem chains and human living standards. This book studies the vulnerability associated with global climate alterations that limits direct social and economic benefits from ecosystem goods and services, and presents significant methods through illustrative case studies to tackle energy and environmental questions. In its final analysis, the book proposes possible unconventional mitigation strategies to restore sustainable biodiversity of ecosystems.

1. Ecosystem Services: Concepts, Methods and Synthesis of Valuation Techniques 2. Indigenous Knowledge for Ecological Resilience from Pre-mining Period of a Mined-Out Area 3. Natural Resources: Classification, Scarcity and Management 4. Economics of Bioenergy in India 5. Energy Governance in India: A Conundrum of Competing Claims 6. Waste-Based Power Generation Supply Chain: A Case Study 7. Rural Household Decision-Making about Water Consumption 8. Coal Mining: Development of Eco Parks 9. Environmental Externality to Human Health Near the Coal Mining Area 10. Global Sustainability Shift and Hydropower Development 11. Man-Nature Relationship in South Asia 12. Domino-Effect of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Food Security and Oceanic Acidification 13. Exploring the Sustainability of Urban Sanitation Models 14. CO2 Emission, Energy Consumption and Human Development Nexus in BRICS 15. The Multidimensionality of Water Scarcity