Indian agriculture, air pollution, and public health in the age of COVID

被引:11
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作者
McDonald, A. J. [1 ]
Balwinder-Singh [2 ]
Jat, M. L. [2 ]
Craufurd, P. [3 ]
Hellin, J. [4 ]
Hung, N. V. [4 ]
Keil, A. [5 ]
Kishore, A. [6 ]
Kumar, V. [4 ]
McCarty, J. L. [7 ,8 ]
Pearson, P. [9 ]
Samaddar, A. [4 ]
Shyamsundar, P. [10 ]
Shirsath, P. B. [11 ]
Sidhu, H. S. [12 ]
Singh, A. K. [13 ]
Singh, Sudhanshu [14 ]
Srivastava, A. K. [14 ]
Urban, E. [1 ]
Malik, R. K. [2 ]
Gerard, B. [15 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Sch Integrat Plant Sci, Soil & Crop Sci Sect, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[2] Int Maize & Wheat Improvement Ctr CIMMYT, NASC Complex, New Delhi, India
[3] Int Maize & Wheat Improvement Ctr CIMMYT, South Asia Reg Off, Khumultar, Lalitpur Dist, Nepal
[4] IRRI, Los Bathornos 4031, Laguna, Philippines
[5] UNIQUE Forestry & Land Use GmbH, Schnewlinstr 10, D-79098 Freiburg, Germany
[6] IFPRI, New Delhi, India
[7] Miami Univ, Dept Geog, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
[8] Miami Univ, Geospatial Anal Ctr, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
[9] Int Cryosphere Climate Initiat ICCI, Pawlet, VT USA
[10] Nature Conservancy, 4245 N Fairfax Dr, Arlington, VA USA
[11] CIMMYT, BISA, CGIAR Res Program Climate Change Agr & Food Secur, New Delhi 110012, India
[12] BISA, Ludhiana 141008, Punjab, India
[13] ICAR Res Complex, New Delhi, India
[14] IRRI South Asia Reg Ctr ISARC, NSRTC Campus, Varanasi 221006, Uttar Pradesh, India
[15] Int Maize & Wheat Improvement Ctr CIMMYT, Apdo Postal 6-641, Mexico City 06600, DF, Mexico
关键词
NW India; Crop residue burning; Comorbidities; Agricultural sustainability; Rural-urban nexus;
D O I
10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105064
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Emerging evidence supports the intuitive link between chronic health conditions associated with air pollution and the vulnerability of individuals and communities to COVID-19. Poor air quality already imposes a highly significant public health burden in Northwest India, with pollution levels spiking to hazardous levels in November and early December when rice crop residues are burned. The urgency of curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigating a potential resurgence later in the year provides even more justification for accelerating efforts to dramatically reduce open agricultural burning in India. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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