Environmental Justice in India: Incidence of Air Pollution from Coal-Fired Power Plants
| Autor: | Johannes Urpelainen, Jacob Kopas, Erin York, Xiaomeng Jin, Ryan Kennedy, Shiran Victoria Shen, S.P. Harish |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Environmental justice
Pollution Economics and Econometrics 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Natural resource economics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Air pollution 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Power (social and political) Kuznets curve medicine Environmental science Coal business Emerging markets Externality 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Economics. 176:106711 |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106711 |
| Popis: | Air pollution is a vexing problem for emerging countries that strike a delicate balance between environmental protection, health, and energy for growth. We examine these difficulties in a study of disparate levels of exposure to pollution from coal-fired power generation in India, a country with high levels of air pollution and large, marginalized populations. With data on coal plant locations, atmospheric conditions, and census demographics, we estimate exposure to coal plant emissions using models that predict emission transportation. We find that ethnic and poor populations are more likely to be exposed to coal pollution. However, this relationship is sometimes non-linear and follows an inverted u-shape similar to that of an Environmental Kuznets Curve. We theorize that this non-linear relationship is due to the exclusion of marginalized communities from both the negative and positive externalities of industrial development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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