Health Damage Cost of Automotive Air Pollution: Cost Benefit Analysis of Fuel Quality Upgradation for Indian Cities

Ramprasad Sengupta and Subrata Mandal (subrata@nipfp.org.in)

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Abstract: An analysis of the economic implication of judicial activism of the apex court of India in the regulation of automotive air pollution is analysed. It estimates the health damage cost of urban air pollution for 35 major urban agglomerations of India arising from automotive emissions and the savings that can be achieved by the regulation of fuel quality so as to conform to the Euro norms. It has used the results of some US based study and has applied the transfer of benefit method from the US to the Indian situation for the purpose. The paper finally makes a benefit cost analysis of refinery upgradation for such improvement of fuel quality.

Keywords: fuel quality; health; urban pollution; air; cost benefit analysis; US; Indian; ecoomic implication; automotive; Euro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
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