management. There is an increasing concern in India today about ecological imbalance and the adverse effects on agriculture. With … applied to Indian agriculture in the context of technological changes and economic reforms. For India with more than one …

with air and water pollution. Finally, the paper examines whether environmental monitoring through inspections leads to …

Noise pollution, in the recent times, has been well recognized as one of the major trepidations that impact the quality … urbanized city and has started facing severe noise pollution problems. Day-time urban noise quality assessment was studied in … Silence zone. Noise pollution indices viz. L10, L50, L90, noise climate (NC), equivalent continuous noise level (Leq), noise …

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …

I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced … pollution from coal plants has a larger effect on agricultural productivity than other types of pollution. Given that the … agricultural sector is a refuge for the poor in many developing countries, these results suggest that the effects of pollution may …