Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning

Parmod Kumar 
Surender Kumar 
Laxmi Joshi

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dc.contributor.author	Parmod Kumar Surender Kumar Laxmi Joshi
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-27T06:53:56Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-22T06:48:46Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-27T06:53:56Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-22T06:48:46Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.isbn	978-81-322-2014-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/58239
dc.description	This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary survey data from Punjab, India. It discusses emerging solu- tions to agricultural waste burning that are cost-effective in terms of both money and time. The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water, and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term. However, appropriate assessments have not been undertaken so far to demonstrate the relevant impact of agriculture-based pollution, especially residue burning. This book addresses this gap in the literature. Punjab has been used as a case study as it is the chief granary of India, contributing to 27.2 % of the Indian national produce of rice and 43.8 % of wheat. It is presumed that the findings from this state will be useful not only for other agricultural areas in India, but across the world. This book, therefore, sensitizes policy makers, researchers, and students about the impacts of air pollution caused by agricultural residue burning—a sub- ject not much dealt with in the literature—and provides a way forward.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.subject	Socioeconomic	en_US
dc.title	Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US