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During 2008-2013 he was a Professorial Research Fellow at the [[University of Manchester]]'s Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He was also an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large from 2007 until 2013 at [[Cornell University]] and from 2010 until 2011 President of the [[European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]] (EAERE). He has been a patron of the population concern charity [[Population Matters]] (formerly the Optimum Population Trust) since 2008. During 2011-2014 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the [[International Human Dimensions Programme]] (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change, Bonn. He served as Chair of the Central Government Expert Group on Green National Accounting for India which submitted its report in 2013. He is Chairman of the Management Committee of the [[Centre for the Study of Existential Risk]] at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>[https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1236756 Denial of Catastrophic Risks], Science 8 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6124 p. 1123 DOI: 10.1126/science.1236756</ref><ref name=CV>{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE|url=https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/emeritus/pd10000/CV.pdf|website=www.econ.cam.ac.uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728122132/https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/emeritus/pd10000/CV.pdf|archive-date=28 July 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Dasgupta has been honoured by elections as: Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]]<ref name=who /> (1975); Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (1989); Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] (2004); Fellow of the [[Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory]], 2013; Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017; Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019; Fellow of the Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis; Member of the [[Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences]] (1997); Fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] (formally the Academy of Science for the Developing World), 2001; Member of [[Academia Europaea]] (2009); Foreign Member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] (1991);<ref name=who /> Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=who /> (1991); Foreign Associate of the [[US National Academy of Sciences]] (2001); Foreign Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (2005);<ref name=who /> Foreign Member of [[Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti]] (2009); Honorary Fellow of the [[London School of Economics]] (1994<ref name="efdinitiative.org"/>); Honorary Fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (2010); Honorary Member of the [[American Economic Association]] (1997); Distinguished Fellow, [[Center for Economic Studies|CES]], [[University of Munich]], 2011; and President of the [[Royal Economic Society]] (1998–2001), the [[European Economic Association]] (1999), Section F (Economics) of the BA ([[British Association for the Advancement of Science]]) Festival of Science (2006), and the [[European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]] (2010–2011).

Dasgupta was co-recipient (with [[Karl-Göran Mäler]]) of the 2002 [[Volvo Environment Prize]];<ref>[https://www.environment-prize.com Volvo Environment Prize]</ref> and (also with Mäler) of the 2004 Boulding Award of the [[International Society for Ecological Economics]];,<ref>[https://www.isecoeco.org/boulding-award/ Kenneth E. Boulding Award]</ref> co-recipient (with Geoffrey Heal) of the [[Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]]' "Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003" for their book, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; recipient of the [[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]], 2007, of the [[American Agricultural Economics Association]]; recipient of the [[Zayed International Environment Prize]] (II: scientific and technological achievements) in 2011; and recipient of the European Lifetime Achievement Award (in Environmental and Resource Economics) from the [[European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]], 2014. In 2007, together with [[Eric Maskin]] he was awarded the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, a joint prize of the Kempe Foundation and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He was awarded the 2015 [[Blue Planet Prize]] for Environmental Research,<ref name="bpa">{{Cite web|url=https://scienceportal.jst.go.jp/news/newsflash_review/newsflash/2015/06/20150619_02.html|title=ブループラネット賞英米2経済学者に|date=2015-06-19|publisher=SciencePortal ([[:w:ja:科学技術振興機構|Japan Science and Technology Agency]])|language=ja|access-date=2015-08-09}}</ref> the 2016 [[Tyler Prize]], and the Kew International Medal, 2021 of the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew. In 2022 he was honoured by Freedom of the City of London by Special Invitation.