Anil Markandya
Scientific Director
social sciences
BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change
Spain
Biography
Professor Markandya is a resource economist who has worked in this field for over thirty years and is acknowledged as one of the leading authorities. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science in Econometrics in 1968 and was awarded his Ph.D. on the Economics of the Environment in 1975.Since then he has divided his time between academic and advisory work. On the academic side he has published widely in the areas of climate change, environmental valuation, environmental policy, energy and environment, green accounting, macroeconomics and trade. Some of his best-known works include, ´Blueprint for a Green Economy’, ´Green Accounting in Europe’, ´Reconciling Trade and Development’ and ´Cleaning the Ganges’. He has held academic positions at the universities of Princeton, Berkeley and Harvard in the US and at University College London and Bath University in the UK.
Research Interest
Environmental economics and resources, Climate Change
Publications
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Anil Markandya, Deger Saygin, Asami Miketa, Dolf Gielen and Nicholas Wagner. 2016. The True Cost of Fossil Fuels: Saving On the Externalities of Air Pollution and Climate Change.
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Markandya, A. 2017. Improving Irrigation Water Use Efficiency Holds the Key to Tackling Water Scarcity in South Asia: Technical, Potential and Financing Options. 39. 11.
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A.Markandya. 2017. State of Knowledge on Climate Change, Water and Economics. Water Global Practice Discussion Paper,World Bank. 1. 33. DOI (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26491).
