Editors
Niranjan Roy
Department of Economics
Assam University
Silchar, Assam, India
Shubhadeep Roychoudhury
Department of Life Science
and Bioinformatics
Assam University
Silchar, Assam, India
Sunil Nautiyal
Centre for Ecological Economics
and Natural Resources (CEENR)
Institute of Social and Economic
Change (ISEC)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sunil K. Agarwal
Science for Equity, Empowerment
and Development (SEED) Division
(Innovation, Technology Development
and Deployment), Department of Science
and Technology
Ministry of Science and Technology
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Sangeeta Baksi
Technology Information, Forecasting
and Assessment Council (TIFAC)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISSN 1863-5520
ISSN 1863-5539 (electronic)
Environmental Science and Engineering
ISSN 1431-6250
ISSN 2661-8222 (electronic)
Environmental Science
ISBN 978-3-030-32462-9
ISBN 978-3-030-32463-6 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6
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Niranjan Roy
Department of Economics
Assam University
Silchar, Assam, India
Shubhadeep Roychoudhury
Department of Life Science
and Bioinformatics
Assam University
Silchar, Assam, India
Sunil Nautiyal
Centre for Ecological Economics
and Natural Resources (CEENR)
Institute of Social and Economic
Change (ISEC)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sunil K. Agarwal
Science for Equity, Empowerment
and Development (SEED) Division
(Innovation, Technology Development
and Deployment), Department of Science
and Technology
Ministry of Science and Technology
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Sangeeta Baksi
Technology Information, Forecasting
and Assessment Council (TIFAC)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISSN 1863-5520
ISSN 1863-5539 (electronic)
Environmental Science and Engineering
ISSN 1431-6250
ISSN 2661-8222 (electronic)
Environmental Science
ISBN 978-3-030-32462-9
ISBN 978-3-030-32463-6 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from
the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
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