Showing 1 - 10 of 34
commitments) on working women. Based on a survey of women workers in Calcutta’s IT sector, this paper agues that contextual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592957
National Urban Transport Policy, the guiding document for urban transport in India, emphasis movement of people and goods and not vehicles. The paper establishes that investment on walking and cycling facilities, and surface rail projects give maximum benefit compared to high cost motorised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259771
Over the recent decades, scholars and planning practitioners have developed strategies for directed urban decentralization, which aim at the optimization of urban commuting patterns by allowing households to locate closer to job opportunities. However, given ongoing changes in the socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617089
This dissertation treats the topic of environmentally unfriendly consumption behaviour in relation to air pollution and …) differences in the extent of pollution arising from environmentally friendlier vehicle use, and iii) the attitude of private … and behavioural factors determine the level of impact that private motorists have on urban air pollution. Also, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578221
Car use is an increasingly serious problem in many modern cities because of polluting emissions, noise, accidents and congestion. To examine this issue, this paper analyzes the individual choice between taking the car and using alternative transport modes (e.g. walking, cycling, taking the bus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107867
labour market creates pollution through its production and lowers the efficiency of workers. The analysis finds that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212786
types, and they cause adverse health impacts due to indoor air pollution. Within the households that use biomass fuels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259444
pollution intensity coefficients associated to production activities, environmental effects were estimated for the whole country … pollution and water and energy use levels per unit of output produced. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259487
monitoring stations, air pollution falls 19% during every-other-day and 8% during one-day-per-week restrictions. Based on hourly … parking garage entrance records. Our results contrast with previous findings of no pollution reductions from driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283806
consequence of pollution through field studies and quantitative analysis. It is now accepted that the benefit from … industrialisation in a region needs to be examined against the perceived costs of increasing pollution and has to be carefully studied … methods, it is inferred from the study that the residents are quite aware of the problems caused by pollution from the present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372628