India’s urban environment: air and water pollution and pollution abatement

Sridhar, Kala S. and Kumar, Surender (2012): India’s urban environment: air and water pollution and pollution abatement.

Abstract

This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local government that are used to address the challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other policies which are aimed at “green” cities.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Urbanisation, Environment, Air pollution, Water pollution, Fiscal instruments
• Subjects: R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R0 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling; N - Economic History > N9 - Regional and Urban History > N95 - Asia including Middle East

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