India’s Urban Environment: Air and Water Pollution and Pollution Abatement

Abstract: This paper focuses on air and water pollution in India’s cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local government that are used to address the challenges, discusses relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other policies which are aimed at “green” cities.

Key words: Urbanisation, Environment, Air pollution, Water pollution, Fiscal instruments

By: Kala S. Sridhar and Surender Kumar