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Educational
Qualifications:
Ph.D in
Economics from
University of
Madras (through
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies) Chennai
(2002).
Thesis Title:
Economic
Valuation of
Water Used in
the Household
Sector: A
Contingent
Valuation
Approach in a
Developing
Country Context.
M.Phil in
Economics from
Annamalai
University,
Tamil Nadu
(1992).
Thesis Title:
Economic
Analysis of
Water Pollution
with Special
Reference to
Neyveli Region.
M.A. in
Economics from
Annamalai
University,
Tamil Nadu
(1990).
Academic Awards
/ Scholarships /
Fellowships:
Fulbright-Nehru
Senior Research
Fellow,
Department of
Agricultural and
Resource
Economics,
University of
California at
Berkeley, USA,
September
2009–April,
2010.
Visiting Fellow,
Fondation Maison
des Sciences de
l'homme (FMSH),
Paris, France,
under the
Indo-France
Cultural
Exchange
Programme,
September-
October, 2007.
Visiting Fellow,
University of
British
Columbia,
Vancouver,
Canada, under
the
Indo-Canadian
Studies Faculty
Research
Programme,
during June -
July, 2006.
Visiting Fellow,
Cornell
University,
Ithaca, United
States of
America, during
March - April,
2004;
Visiting Fellow,
Overseas
Development
Group,
University of
East Anglia,
United Kingdom,
during October
1997;
Japanese Award
for Outstanding
Research on
Development,
Eighth Annual
Global
Development
Network
Conference,
Beijing, China,
January, 2007;
Reserve Bank of
India Doctoral
Fellowship,
1992-1996;
The 42nd All
India Economics
Conference Prize
for outstanding
performance in
the subject of
economic growth
in M. A.
Economics;
Thiru S. R. N.
Badri Rao
Endowment Prize
for outstanding
performance in
M. A. Economics;
The Sir. J.
Simson Prize for
outstanding
performance in
M. A. Economics;
The Sir.
Nataraja Gold
Medal for
outstanding
performance in
M. A. Economics.
Areas of
Research and
Teaching:
Environmental
Economics,
Ecological
Economics,
Institutional
Economics and
Behavioural
Economics.
Research / Work
Experience:
Associate
Professor of
Economics at
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies,
Chennai, from 1
December, 2006.
Assistant
Professor of
Economics at
Institute for
Social and
Economic Change,
Bangalore, from
August 2002 to
November 2006.
Consultant-
Environmental
Economist on the
World Bank
Assisted Water
Resources
Consolidation
Project at the
Water Resources
Organisation,
Public Works
Dept. Government
of Tamil Nadu
from 1st August,
2001 to 28th
August, 2002.
During this
period, I was
working with the
World Bank Team
in developing
the Decision
Support Tool for
Palar and
Thambirabharani
river basins of
Tamil Nadu,
India. I was a
technical
consultant for
the River Basin
Bord created for
the Palar River
Basin.
Research
Associate at
Madras School of
Economics,
Chennai on a
project entitled
"Pondicherry
Vision 2020",
from 1 December,
2000 to 31 July,
2001. This
project involved
sectoral
analysis for
various sectors
in the Union
Territory of
Pondicherry and
making
perspective plan
for the U.T;
Consultant
Environmental
Economist for
the
Environmental
Economics
Component of the
World Bank Aided
India:
Environmental
Management
Capacity
Building
Technical
Assistance
Project in the
Ministry of
Environment and
Forests,
Government of
India, New Delhi
from 24 June,
1998 to July 27,
2000;
List of Refereed
Publications:
1. Venkatachalam,
L and Yves
Saillard (2009).
Alternative
Institutions in
Urban Water
Supply Sector: A
Critique of
Public Private
Partnership
(PPP) Model, In:
Yves Saillard
and G. S. Sastry
(Eds.). Access
to Water in
Urban Areas:
Case Studies of
India and
France, Hermes
Academic
Publishing,
Oslo,
Forthcoming.
2. Venkatachalam,
L with S.
Vanathy (2009).
Analysing Water
Supply Issues in
Chennai: An
Economic
Theoretic
Approach, In:
Yves Saillard
and G. S. Sastry
(Eds.). Access
to Water in
Urban Areas:
Case Studies of
India and
France, Hermes
Academic
Publishing,
Oslo,
Forthcoming.
3. Venkatachalam,
L (2008). Role
of Information
on Water Quality
in Influencing
Household
Behavior: A case
study in a peri-urban
context, Journal
of Urban Policy,
Vol. 3 (2): 7
-15.
4. Venkatachalam,
L (2008).
Behavioral
Economics for
Environmental
Policy,
Ecological
Economics, Vol.
67 (4): 640 -
645.
5. Venkatachalam,
L (2008).
Theories of
Failure, Failure
of Theories and
Non-Market
Valuation: A
Survey,
International
Journal of
Ecological
Economics and
Statistics,
Vol.11 (S08):
114 - 133.
6. Venkatachalam,
L (2007)
Environmental
Economics and
Ecological
Economics: Where
They Can
Converge?
Ecological
Economics, Vol.
61 (2-3): 550
-558.
7. Venkatachalam,
L (2006)
Public-Private
Partnership
(PPP) in Urban
Water Supply
Sector: Some
Issues, Journal
of Urban Policy,
Vol. 1 (2):
7-15.
8. Venkatachalam,
L (2006).
Factors
Influencing
Household
Willingness to
Pay (WTP) for
Drinking Water
in Peri-Urban
Areas: A Case
Study in the
Indian Context,
Water Policy,
Vol. 8 (5): 461
- 473.
9. Venkatachalam,
L (with K. V.
Raju) (2006).
Water Resources
Development and
Irrigation
Infrastructure
in Karnataka, in
Karnataka
Development
Report, The
Academic
Foundation, New
Delhi;
10. Sharad Lele
and
Venkatachalam, L
(2006).
Assessing the
Socio-Economic
Impact of
Changes in
Forest Cover on
Watershed
Services. In:
Jagdish
Krishnasamy,
Sharachchandra
Lele, and R.
Jayakumar (Eds.)
Hydrology &
Watershed
Services of the
Western Ghats
(India): Effects
of Land Use and
Land Cover
Change, Tata
McGraw-Hill
Publishers, New
Delhi.
11. Kadekodi,
Gopal and
Venkatachalam, L
(2006). Human
Development,
Environment and
Poverty Nexus in
India,
Background Paper
on Environment
and Poverty,
UNDP, New Delhi.
12.
Venkatachalam, L
(2005). Damage
Assessment and
Compensation to
Farmers: Lessons
from Verdict of
Loss of Ecology
Authority in
Tamil Nadu,
Economic and
Political
Weekly, Vol. XL
(15), April 9,
pp: 1556 - 1560.
13.
Venkatachalam, L
(2005).
Demand-Side
Versus
Supply-Side
Approach: The
Case for
Sustainable
Management of
Water Supply in
Developing
Countries - A
Case Study, In:
Chenoweth J and
Bird, J (Eds.)
Business of
Water Supply and
Sustainable
Development,
Green Management
International
Publisher,
Sheffield, UK,
pp. 238 - 250.
14. R.S.
Deshpande,
Venkatachalam,
L. and
Narayanamoorthy,
A (2004).
Policies for
Access, Equity
and Equality:
Physical
Resources and
Human Resources.
In: Sundaram, K.
V., Moni, M and
Jha M. M (Eds.)
Natural Resource
Management and
Livelihood
Security:
Survival
Strategies and
Sustainable
Policies,
Concept
Publishers, New
Delhi, pp: 401 -
447.
15.
Venkatachalam, L
(2004). Sources
of Government
Failure and the
Environmental
Externality:
Analysis of
Groundwater
Pollution in
Tamil Nadu,
India, Water
Policy, Vol. 6
(5), October,
pp: 413 - 426.
16.
Venkatachalam,
L. (2004). The
Contingent
Valuation
Method: A
Review,
Environmental
Impact
Assessment
Review, 24(1):
89 - 124.
17.
Venkatachalam,
L. (2003).
Designing
Contingent
Valuation (CV)
Surveys for
Estimating Use
Values: Some
Experience from
a Case Study of
a Water Supply
Project, Journal
of Social and
Economic
Development,
Vol. 5 (2): 267
- 284.
Working Papers:
Venkatachalam,
L. (2003).
Factors
Influencing
Willingness to
Pay for Water: A
Case Study, ISEC
Working Paper
No. 123,
Institute for
Social and
Economic Change,
Bangalore.
Venkatachalam, L
(2003). Theories
of Failure,
Failure of
Theories and
Non-Market
Valuation: A
Survey, ISEC
Working Paper
No. 122,
Institute for
Social and
Economic Change,
Bangalore.
Venkatachalam, L
(1995). Natural
Resource
Accounting (NRA)
for Sustainable
Development: A
Survey, MIDS
Working Paper
No. 130, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies,
Chennai.
Other
Publications:
Draft
Environmental
Policy:
Inadequate
economic inputs.
The Hindu
Business Line,
November 5,
2004.
Environmental
Economics for
Efficient Water
Resource
Management: A
Guide, for
non-economic
professionals in
the Water
Resources
Organisation,
Public Works
Department,
Government of
Tamil Nadu,
India, 2001.
Allocation of
Water among
Agriculture and
Industry
Sectors: A
Trade-off
Analysis, Report
prepared for the
Water Resources
Organisation,
Government of
Tamil Nadu,
India, 2001.
Monograph on
Natural Resource
Accounting and
Economic
Valuation
prepared as part
of UNDP project
on Natural
Resource
Accounting for
Water: A Case
Study of Bhavani
River Basin
conducted by
Madras Institute
of Development
Studies,
Chennai, 1996.
Household
Willingness to
Pay for Water: A
Case Study of
Thudiyalur Town
Panchayat,
Coimbatore
District, Tamil
Nadu (with P.
Arunachalam),
Proceedings of
National Seminar
on Environmental
Aspects of Water
Resources
Development &
Management,
Trivandrum, June
1995, PP IV
25-28.
Natural Resource
Accounting (NRA)
for Forest
Resources, BPST
Bulletin,
January 1995
Sustainable
Irrigated
Agriculture in
Tamil Nadu: Need
for a Quality
Oriented
Approach (with
Prakash Nelliyat),
Proceedings of
the Seminar on
Irrigation Water
Management in
Future, IMTI,
Trichy, January
1994.
Books Reviewed:
Mehta, Shekhar,
Sudipto Mundle
and U. Sankar
(1997).
Controlling
Pollution:
Incentives and
Regulation.
Sage, New Delhi
in Review of
Development and
Change, Vol. III
(2), July-
December,
Pp.369-373;
Kahkonen, Satu
and Macur Olson
(2000). A New
Institutional
Approach to
Economic
Development.
Vistaar
Publications,
New Delhi in
Journal of
Social and
Economic
Development,
Vol. VI (1):
Jan- June 2004:
134 - 137.
Research
Projects
Completed
Recently:
Human
Development,
Environment and
Poverty Nexus in
India (Prof.
Gopal K.
Kadekodi and L.
Venkatachalam).
This project was
sponsored by
UNDP, New Delhi
and completed in
2005.
Investment
Subsidy to
'Tourism
Industry' in
Karnataka: An
Evaluation (L.
Venkatachalam).
This project was
sponsored by
Government of
Karnataka and
completed in
2005.
Infrastructure
and Agricultural
Development in
Karnataka State
(L.
Venkatachalam).
This project was
sponsored by
Government of
Karnataka and
completed in
2003;
Reforms in Urban
Water Supply
Sector in
Developing
Countries: A
Critique of
Existing and
Alternative
Approaches (ISEC
sponsored
Study).
Member in
Academic Society
/ Organisation:
International
Union for the
Scientific Study
of Population (IUSSP);
International
Association for
the Study of
Common Property
(IASCP;)
International
Institute of
Fisheries
Economics and
Trade (IIFET);
European
Association of
Environmental
and Resource
Economics (EAERE)
International
Society for
Ecological
Economics (INSEE).
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