Important Editorial / Academic works done  :

 

  1. Member of the Editorial Board : Encyclopedia on Quality of Life, (Publisher: Springer Science Publishers), Forthcoming.
  2. Editorial Board Member of the Journal : Social Indicators Research (Publisher : Springer Science Publishers, formerly it was published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers) since January 1998.
  3. Editorial Board Member of the Journal : Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Research.
  4. Reviewer of the Journals : (i)Ecological Economics (Publisher : Elsevier) (International Society for Ecological Economics) (ii) Review of Social Economy (Publisher : Routledge) (iii) Social Indicators Research (Publisher :  Springer  Science Publishers, former publisher :Kluwer Academic Publishers) (iv) Sociological Forum  (Publisher : Springer Science Publishers). (v) Journal of Happiness (Publisher : Springer Science Publishers)
  5. Member of the Board of Directors, International Society for Quality of Life Studies (2005-2006).
  6. Chaired sessions : (i) The Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities, held in Singapore during 8th to 10th March  2000.
  7. Appointed Track Co-chair : 6th ISQOLS Conference  held in Philadelphia (USA) during November 10-13, 2004.
  8. Appointed Track Chair  8th ISQOLS Conference to be  held in California (USA) during December 6-9, 2007.
  9. Moderator of two Round Tables : 6th ISQOLS Conference  held in Philadelphia (USA) during November 10-13, 2004.
  10. Panelist for Asia-Pacific Region for a Panel on Global and Regional trends in QOL: 6th ISQOLS Conference  held in Philadelphia (USA) during November 10-13, 2004.
  11. Faculty of the Workshop 4 on Constructing QOL Indicators and Indexes :   6th ISQOLS Conference  to held in Philadelphia  (USA) during November  10-13, 2004.
  12. Member of the Abstract Oversight Committee : 6th ISQOLS Conference held in Philadelphia (USA) during November 10-13, 2004.
  13. Member of the International Planning Programme Committee : 6th ISQOLS Conference   held in Philadelphia (USA) during November 10-13, 2004.
  14. Listed International Referee for the Quality of Life Indicators, since 1998.
  15. Referee for Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities held in Singapore during 8th to 10th March 2000.
  16. Appointed one of the Judges for selecting best authors of the papers presented in the Second International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities held in Singapore during 8th to 10th March 2000.
  17. Invited  Discussant for the session : “Human Development and   Economic Growth” in the Annual Conference of the Association for  Social  Economy held  in  Atlanta, January 2002.
  18. Invited as a Panel Discussant in the International Development Studies Conference to be held in Bhubaneswar, January, 2002.
  19. Seminars : (i) University of Southampton (UK) on 06.09.99. (ii) Institute of Social Studies (The Netherlands) on 16.09.99. (iii) Leicester University  (UK) on 29.09.99.
  20. Professor Siv Gustafsson of Amsterdam University consulted me for her Ph.D. student  Mr. Abu Ray Choudhury on 16.09.99.
  21. Guest Speaker in One-week Training Programme on Environmental Economics for Government Officials at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta during 18.01.99 to 23.01.99, conducted under the World Bank Aided "India Environmental Capacity Building" Technical Assistance Project.  Topic of  the Speech was : "Sustainable Development : Potential Reality or a Passing Fad ?"
  22. Invited Lecture on "Measurement of Well-being" at the Academic Staff College (Department of Economics) of the University of Calcutta. The participants were college teachers in Economics of the under graduate colleges attached to the  University of Calcutta, January, 1996.
  23. Two papers presented in the Seminar on Women Studies held in the Department  of Economics, University of Calcutta, April, 1996.
  24. Views on  Population Policy was sent to the Member-Secretary of the Expert Group on the National Population Policy in response to a letter No. NIHFW/DIR/1-31/93, Sept. 20, 1993 from the same.
  25. "Efficacy of Central Plan Grants for State Plans : a Cross-Sectional Analysis": Paper presented by A.K. Gour in the Conference on Planning and Economic Policy in India,  held in Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta 1993.
  26. Conversation with the Malaysian Economists on 5.09.1997.

 

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