Tag Search: “pollution”
Carbon dioxide emissions from India’s industries: Data sources and discrepancies
Industries are one of the most significant contributors to energy-related carbon-dioxide (energy-CO2) emissions in India – the share of industries in the total emissions was 25%, second only to power ...
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Manisha Jain
02 May, 2022
- Perspectives
How cleaner cookstoves and fuels could benefit women’s health and the environment
With lesser access to financial resources and greater domestic responsibilities, women face the brunt of the climate change crisis. In particular, women are more affected by indoor air pollution cause...
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Siobhan Siu Bai McDonough
Nikita Sharma
07 March, 2022
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Economics and the environment
Published in February 2021 by the UK government, the ‘Dasgupta Review’ calls for changes in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world. ...
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Partha Dasgupta
E. Somanathan
21 December, 2021
- Podcasts
Economics and the environment
Published in February 2021 by the UK government, the ‘Dasgupta Review’ calls for changes in how we think, act and measure economic success to protect and enhance our prosperity and the natural world....
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Partha Dasgupta
E. Somanathan
20 December, 2021
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Environmental relocation and firm outcomes
Industrial relocation policies have become increasingly popular as a policy tool to combat pollution in the developing world. Using Economic Census data from 2005 and 2013, this article examines the i...
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Michael Gechter
Namrata Kala
26 April, 2021
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Budget 2021-22: A gender lens
Examining the 2021-22 union budget through a gender lens, Nalini Gulati discusses what the budget does – and does not do – for women in the Indian economy, particularly with respect to the digital pus...
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Nalini Gulati
02 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Challenges of solid waste management: The case of Patna city
Rapid urbanisation with insufficient planning has led to problems of solid waste management in several Indian cities. In this note, Uma Sarmistha discusses preliminary findings from a field study in t...
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Uma Sarmistha
25 January, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Agricultural worker exits and crop fires
While the process of moving workers from low- to high-productivity sectors is considered critical for economic development, its environmental impact remains largely unexplored. This article shows that...
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Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla
22 December, 2020
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Reducing the flow of plastic to oceans in India
Growing consumer demands are causing the generation of colossal amounts of plastic waste, and the poor state of waste management implies that large proportions of this litter is making its way into th...
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Shiv Kumar
Ravinder Kumar
Siddhi Mankad
Poornima Sheelanere
18 December, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Pollution from coal-based power units and anaemic status of children and women
An extensive literature has considered the impact of air pollution on health. While studies have mainly focussed on outcomes such as general morbidity and mortality, this article evaluates the impact ...
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Sourangsu Chowdhury
Gaurav Datt
Sagnik Dey
Pushkar Maitra
Nidhiya Menon
Ranjan Ray
02 December, 2020
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Tracking India’s greenhouse gas emission intensity target
One of the targets in India’s ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is to reduce the greenhouse gas emission intensity of GDP by 33-35%...
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Manisha Jain
21 August, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future
The impact of the ongoing Covid pandemic is turning out to be multidimensional, and among the long-run considerations that it has brought to the fore are population and pollution. In the run up to Wor...
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Shweta Gupta
Rishabh Mahendra
03 June, 2020
- Perspectives