INTRODUCTION 01. THE GLOBAL POLICY space since Stockholm conference — exactly half a century ago — has recognised that ecological sustainability of the relevant ecosystems are necessary for sustaining a given economic system (say Si). Such ‘relevant’ ecosystems can be identified through two ways: the direct one includes all such spaces…

* This is a slightly edited version of the proposal submitted to RBI for its Scholarship Scheme for Faculty Members from Academic Institutions — 2021. The proposal was selected. Work will start in February 2022 and output will be presented before RBI in May 2022. As it is well known…

[1] This is to thank Ravi Chellam and Kamal Bawa, my colleagues at BC, Akshay M and Shreya Bedia, my ‘associates’ and Rukmini Sen, my partner, for their comments that improved the quality in multiple ways. 0. Blurb: Even with a clear scientific base, able and committed scientists, and assured…

[1] Acknowledgement: This is my tribute to Krishna Bharadwaj (21 August 1935–8 March 1992) whom I never met in person. As a part of responsibilities connected with my UGC Junior Research Fellowship during doctoral studies at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi I came…

[1] Author has contributed to the Bioeconomy component of the Detailed Project Report for the ‘National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-being’ as a part of a project funded by a grant awarded by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (Project No. SA/PM-STAIC/ATREE/ Biodiversity/2019…

It is reasonable to expect the reader to ask the following questions: why have I decided to write through this blog and why have I chosen medium.com as its host. Short answers are fluidity and freedom [1] that can help me to contribute to ‘knowledge commons’.[2] Responses to my ‘posts’…

* This is an edited version of the handout for a class on ‘fact value’ in Methods of Research in Economics course on 15.09.2021. The other handout was the shapes used as ‘mask’ in wordclouds.com (one example is here). …

Preface/Motivation/Alaapcharita/Alaap/Overture Rukmini [1] and myself planned to write blogs for many months. We have even discussed having a common blog: nawn-sens. On 15.08.2017. she started Between Mountains and Sea with ‘Karna and ….’. I will refer to this work in ‘Workspace at the time of Covid’. It was Karna’s ‘entry’…

B./Baobab/Da/Dada/Dr. Nawn/N./Nandan/Nandan-da/Nandan Nawn/Professor Nawn/S./Sir* nawnsense noun nawn-sen-se | non-sense Ordinary meaning: nawn’s way of making sense of his reality Alternative uses: nawn-sens-ing verb Ordinary meaning: act of expressing thoughts through nawnsense.medium.com * The author of this work is variously called by these. He considers himself to be a Teacher, Researcher…