My Books

Technical Books

Environmental Management towards Sustainability

This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet. It presents the critical state of our resources and threats to resource security due to overconsumption, pollution and poor and uneven governance. Role of key stakeholders such as the Government, Financing Institutions, Business and Communities is important. These stakeholders need to collaborate at multiple levels – viz. Local, Regional, National and Global. Chapters are devoted to describing the role of the above stakeholders with numerous case studies. The book can serve as a textbook to academia, a reference for policy makers and planners and a resource for conducting continuing education programs for the professionals to introduce both the concepts and practice experience on sustainability.

Conducting Environmental Assessment in Developing Countries

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a policy and management tool for planning and decision-making, allowing the identification, prediction and evaluation of the environmental impact of proposed development projects. This book provides an introduction to EIA, with sections on its process, methods and tools. It discusses the implementation of specific environmental measures and the need for their constant monitoring, as well as reviewing the final reporting of an EIA.

Practicing Circular Economy

Circular Economy (CE) is considered as one of the important strategies in addressing Sustainable Development Goals.  The book provides an overview of CE, covering its evolution, describing the key concepts, programs, policies, and regulations. It illustrates several business opportunities over a hundred hand-picked case studies that encompass numerous sectors, various scales of operations and geographies. Another unique feature of the book is the activities listed in each chapter to invoke thoughts, frame assignments, and generate discussions. Each chapter lists key additional reading materials and takeaways.

The book is an important resource for mid- and senior-level managers, policy makers, investors, entrepreneurs, consultants, researchers, professors, and academic students involved in the subject of environmental management and sustainability.

Blog Books - English

Sixty shades of Green

This collection of thoughts or Sixty shades of Green, is an attempt to raise important environmental concerns specific to India. The issues discussed are however common across the World.

This book is a collection of blog posts written by the author and published on his blog (prasadmodakblog.com) penning his thoughts on various issues on Environment and Sustainability. In all his articles, he uses humour and satire to discuss issues on environment using stories. Most stories are created from his experiences and are suitably crafted for the purpose of sharing.

Blue, Green and Everything in Between

This book is a compilation of the author’s extensive career as a Professor, Consultant and Entrepreneur with a unique blend of his personal globetrotting experiences. His experiences have helped him acquire a holistic perspective on environmental management and sustainability, which are described vividly through his articles on his blog

Blue, Green and Everything in Between is a compilation of 50 blog articles each reflecting his personal (called Blue) and professional experiences (called Green) which deal with issues related to Environmental Management and Sustainability. One can seldom divide these experiences strictly into Blue and Green as there are several overlaps and intersects that represent various SHADES of BLUE and GREEN. Most stories are created from his experiences and are suitably crafted for the purpose of sharing. Professor Friend is a character, who is essentially created to provide another point of view. Each article has thought provoking takeaways in the form of hidden messages. The book could potentially be used as a supplement to a course on Environmental Management & Sustainability. Some of the posts could be used to open up group discussions or formulate assignments.

Pebbles in Turquoise

This book is a collection of stories in the sustainability space sharing personal experiences and encounters in author’s life. This collection is the third publication of the author based on his blogs. Through these stories and musings, the author attempts to raise important environmental concerns that do not have easy answers. Sometimes, he relates to his experiences as an academician and consultant uses humour and satire to discuss various environmental issues. The messages are often hidden and Knowledge is embedded in an implicit manner. The book can therefore serve as additional reading material (as “light reading”) for a graduate course on environmental management and sustainability. In his three decades of international work, the Author has been to places and met with people. In these encounters he has had extraordinary experiences that enriched his life. The stories take in these cases a form of a travelogue and share some of his memoirs. This makes the reading interesting as the stories are a blend of “blue” and “green” and appear like pebbles in “turquoise”, scattered on a seashore!

Blog Books - Marathi

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope refers to a small tube, with mirrors on the inside of it. This tube generally is filled with tiny, colourful pieces of glass that depict vivid patterns. ‘Kaleidoscope’ as it is a beautiful medley of stories, that are held together with a beautiful thread of environmental tourism. This book tries to convey the importance of conservation of the environment to its readers through an imagined, fantasy like narrative, which happens to be the author’s forte. This book is a collection of stories drawn from the author’s personal blog where he documents his ethnic voyages and globetrotting experiences as an environmentalist. His book ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a collection of some of his most interesting blog posts, which have been translated into Marathi from English, by his elder sister.

Antarang

Antarang is a handpicked collection of short autobiographical stories with a pinch of fiction, drawn from the author’s personal blog. The blog posts have been translated into Marathi from English, by his elder sister and published in the form of short stories in this book. The selected stories depict the author’s thoughts and emotions based on his day-to-day experiences which are easy to relate and enlightening to read.