Anil Shishodia is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Sardar Patel University (SPU), Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He was a World Bank Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA, from August 1999 to May 2000, where he credited and audited a number of advanced courses in natural resources and environmental economics, including a course in environmental ethics. At SPU, he was instrumental in designing and offering a post-graduate level course in Environmental Economics. He has about 11 years of experience in teaching and research, and has published a number of articles on the subject.