Water Resource Economics

     MG Chandrakanth is currently Professor and University Head of Agricultural Economics and former Dean of College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore (UASB), India. He completed BSc (Agri) in 1974, MSc (Agri) in Agricultural Economics in 1976 under Professor Noel SP Rebellow, and obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1981 under Dr JV Venkataram from the UASB.  He served the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India, as Assistant Professor in the Rural Economics Unit from 1982-1983 and joined the UASB as Associate Professor in 1983. He has been teaching agricultural economics, production economics, mathematical economics, advanced micro economics, institutional economics and history of economic thought, natural resource and environmental economics  courses.      Dr. Chandrakanth pursued post doctoral studies with fellowship from the Ford Foundation, USA in forest resource economics in 1987-1988.  He was awarded the Ciriacy-Wantrup Post Doctoral Fellowship for 1988-1990 period, in institutional economics of natural resources at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and worked under Prof Jeff Romm specializing in water resource economics and policy.        He was nominated Vice President of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics in 2000 and as member of Editorial board of the Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics in 2012.  He facilitated student exchange program with the University of Gent with Prof Guido Van Huylenbroeck in Rural Development  (IMRD) and was Erasmus Mundus visiting scholar, University of Ghent, Belgium in 2008; DAAD scholar at  Humboldt University, Berlin 2010 and 2012.  He is a member of the Water Policy Law Group of the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.      Dr. Chandrakanth was awarded the Fellow of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics in 2013 and Dr Ramesh Chandra Agrawal Award of excellence for his outstanding contributions in Agricultural Economics in 2014. He has published in Natural Resources Journal, Natural Resources Forum, Ecological Economics,  Water Policy, Environment and Development Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, Ind Jr of Agri Economics, Agricultural Economics Research Review (http://www.toenre.com/). He handled projects funded by the Ford Foundation from 1995 to 2005 on Groundwater resource economics and has been the leader of the Team of Excellence in Natural Resource Economics since 2000.  Dr Chandrakanth is a student and admirer of Professors  R. Ramanna, S Bisaliah, HS Krishnaswamy, HG Shankaramurthy,  NSP Rebellow, KN Ranganatha Sastry,  MV Nadkarni, VM Rao, K Palanisami and RS Deshpande for their academic  excellence and commitment to teaching and is attempting to tread his path on similar lines with his passion for teaching and research in agricultural economics. 

1. Water for Irrigation: An overview.- 2. Externality in Irrigation.- 3. Unidirectional and Reciprocal externality in irrigation.- 4. Sand Mining Externality.- 5. Relationship between rainfall and recharge.- 6. Marginal productivity of Water.- 7. Costing water for irrigation.- 8. Locating interference and valuing water.- 9. Demand side economics of Micro irrigation.- 10. Supply side economic contribution watershed program to groundwater recharge.- 11. Water markets.- 12. Sustainable path of extraction of Ground water in tank and canal command areas.- 13. Water Policy.- 14. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) for water.- 15. Economics of artificial recharge of borewell in hard rock areas.