Indian Institute Of Technology, Roorkee
Civil Engineering
This study evaluates the health risks in megacities in terms of mortality and morbidity due to air pollution. A new spreadsheet model, Risk of Mortality/Morbidity due to Air Pollution (Ri-MAP), is used to estimate the excess numbers of... more
- by Bhola Gurjar
Page 1. Corporate responses to the CDM: the Indian pulp and paper industry 255 CLIMATE POLICY ■ research article Corporate responses to the CDM: the Indian pulp and paper industry MALTE SCHNEIDER1*, VOLKER H. HOFFMANN1, BHOLA R. GURJAR2 ...
Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems and Perspectives in Different Countries Bhola Ram Gurjar and Manju Mohan* Introduction A number of industrial accidents, such as those at Flixborough in 1974, Seveso in 1976, Bhopal in 1984, and... more
2 Air Pollution Monitoring and Source Characterization Anita Lakhani, Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, and Bhola R. Gurjar Contents 2.1 Introduction...................................................... more
Megacities and other major population centers represent large, concentrated sources of anthropogenic pollutants to the atmosphere, with consequences for both local air quality and for regional and global atmospheric chemistry. The... more
Toxic or hazardous substances pose two types of risks in the environment, namely `short-term or acute risk' and `long-termor chronic risk'. The short-term risk is associated with the one-time acute exposure to potentially hazardous... more
Delhi is one of the many megacities struggling with punishing levels of pollution from industrial, residential, and transportation sources. Over the years, pollution abatement in Delhi has become an important constituent of state... more
Megacities and other major population centers represent important, concentrated sources of anthropogenic pollutants to the atmosphere, with consequences for both local air quality and for regional and global atmospheric chemistry. The... more
We examine the representation of emissions from megacities in three global anthropogenic emission inventories. Despite the many common sources of data between the inventories, and the similarities in their construction methodologies,... more