Environmental Interventions and Air Pollution (Re)distribution in Delhi, India

21 Pages Posted: 4 Jul 2014

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Naresh Kumar

University of Miami

Marc Linderman

University of Iowa

Allen Chu

Government of the United States of America - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Sachidnand Tripathi

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur

Andrew D. Foster

Brown University - Department of Economics; Brown University - Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Dong Liang

University of Iowa

Date Written: June 8, 2014

Abstract

Delhi became an exemplary city by instituting radical environmental interventions to improve air quality between 2000 and 2002. This included introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) and closure of polluting industries. However, areas outside Delhi (but adjacent to Delhi’s border) did not institute similar interventions. This paper examines spatial (re)distribution of air pollution and its association with land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes in and around Delhi before and after these interventions. While the central parts of Delhi experienced an improvement in air quality, areas bordering Delhi experienced a significant deterioration in air quality after the interventions. This research suggests that air pollution is likely to (re)distribute if the environmental interventions are enforced uniformly in and around large cities.

Keywords: Environmental Intervention, Air Pollution, Environmental Justice, Land use and land cover changes, Delhi

JEL Classification: I18, G18, D78, D63, E65, R12, R14, R52

Suggested Citation

Kumar, Naresh and Linderman, Marc and Chu, Allen and Tripathi, Sachidnand and Foster, Andrew D. and Liang, Dong, Environmental Interventions and Air Pollution (Re)distribution in Delhi, India (June 8, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2462105 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2462105

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