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The concept of sustainable development finds echo in the writings of early economists like Malthus when he talks about depletion of natural resources. The United Nations has been seized of the idea at least since the Human Development Conference held in Stockholm in 1972. The Introduction presents a brief history of the concept of sustainable development and the evolution of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It expounds how the concept gels with India’s own development policies and commitments and India’s development paradigm shifted from quantity to quality in its efforts to achieve the SDGs, which is the focus of the volume. Introduction also contains a brief overview of all the other chapters.
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It was evident in the famous work by W. Stanley Jevon’s The Coal Question of 1866.
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World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future. Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development.
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Chaturvedi, S., James, T.C., Saha, S., Shaw, P. (2019). Introduction: Sustainable Development Goals and India. In: Chaturvedi, S., James, T., Saha, S., Shaw, P. (eds) 2030 Agenda and India: Moving from Quantity to Quality . South Asia Economic and Policy Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9091-4_1
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