Journal of Pollution Effects & Control
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Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Environmental Cost of Air Pollution Due to Stubble Burning: Evidence from New Delhi
  Author(s): Arti Agarwal* and Nachiketa Tiwari
  
  Objective: Stubble burning in North India has been a major contributing factor to the growing menace of air pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR) of India for the last two decades. Though the health aspects of air pollution due to stubble burning have been extensively studied, its economic costs due to environmental damage have not been studied holistically. We attempt to estimate these costs using Instrumental Variable (IV) Analysis. Methods: Using VIIRS Data from NASA, we count the number of field fires per day in Punjab and Haryana during the September-December harvesting season, called FIRECOUNT. We use FIRECOUNT as the IV to estimate the concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 due to stubble burning. This is then regressed against the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of New Delhi to identify the effect of increase in PM2.5 or PM10 o.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2375-4397.24.12.400

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