Ambient air pollution

Overview of evidence for integrated local and global action

Authors

  • Rupsha Mitra Senior Research Executive at Tech Mahindra Foundation
  • Vivek U. Padvetnaya Associate Professor, O.P Jindal Global University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54945/jjpp.v4i1.142

Keywords:

Air pollution, Climate change, Global burden of disease, Global warming, Sustainable development, sustainable development goals, World Health Organisation (WHO), public policy, public health

Abstract

Air pollution has emerged as a serious health emergency both locally and globally. The same air pollutants that cause illnesses and premature deaths also trap heat and cause global warming, interfere with rainfall and accelerate icecap and glacier melting, affect vegetation and ecosystems, and also have trans-boundary effects. This complex set of effects poses a serious challenge for public policy. While policy action itself has to gather momentum to meet the clean air targets across cities and regions to protect public health, policy action will also have to respond more holistically to a range of scientific evidence that has now established more a complex link between air pollution and several other environmental and climate impacts. But this is also an opportunity to adopt policy indicators that can be mainstreamed across sectors to align a full range of interventions for effective mitigation and achieve multiple co-benefits related to health and climate security and sustainable development goals. Keywords: Government, intervention, challenges, nutrition, maternal, mortality, resources

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Author Biographies

Rupsha Mitra, Senior Research Executive at Tech Mahindra Foundation

Rupsha Mitra is Senior Research Executive at Tech Mahindra Foundation. She is a graduate in Economics and has earned her Honours Degree from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. She has earned her Masters’ degree in Public Policy from O.P Jindal Global University. She has specialised in health policy and healthcare financing

Vivek U. Padvetnaya, Associate Professor, O.P Jindal Global University

Vivek U.Padvetnaya is an Associate Professor, O.P Jindal Global University who is a trained medical doctor with a Masters’ in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a Doctorate in public health (political-economy) from the University of Oxford. He holds a diploma in business management from ICFAI University

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Published

2020-07-01

How to Cite

Mitra, R., & Padvetnaya, V. U. (2020). Ambient air pollution: Overview of evidence for integrated local and global action. Jindal Journal of Public Policy, 4(1), 63–82. https://doi.org/10.54945/jjpp.v4i1.142

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020)

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