Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning

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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


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