[HTML][HTML] Air pollution, climate change, and human health in Indian cities: a brief review

R Kaur, P Pandey - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change and air pollution have been a matter of serious concern all over the world in
the last few decades. The present review has been carried out in this concern over the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 strict lockdown impact on urban air quality and atmospheric temperature in four megacities of India

SC Pal, I Chowdhuri, A Saha, M Ghosh, P Roy… - Geoscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic has forced to lockdown entire India starting from 24th March 2020 to
14th April 2020 (first phase), extended up to 3rd May 2020 (second phase), and further …

Urban ecology and human health: implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus

N Singh, S Singh, RK Mall - Urban ecology, 2020 - Elsevier
The urban population has increased from about 750 million in 1951 to 4.2 billion in 2018.
This uncontrolled population growth has resulted in an unplanned, fast and unsustainable …

New directions: air pollution challenges for developing megacities like Delhi

P Kumar, M Khare, RM Harrison… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - openresearch.surrey.ac.uk
Most major cities around the world experience periods of elevated air pollution levels, which
exceed international health-based air quality standards (Kumar et al., 2013). Although it is a …

Impact of lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic on the air quality of North Indian cities

A Saxena, S Raj - Urban Climate, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization, which proclaimed the COVID-19 a pandemic in
early March 2020, imposed a partial lockdown by the Government of India on 21 March …

[HTML][HTML] Significant impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on urban air pollution in Kolkata (India) and amelioration of environmental health

B Bera, S Bhattacharjee, PK Shit, N Sengupta… - Environment …, 2021 - Springer
The fatal novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic disease smashes the normal tempo of
global socio-economic and cultural livelihood. Most of the countries impose a lockdown …

COVID-19 lockdown and air quality of SAFAR-India metro cities

R Yadav, N Korhale, V Anand, A Rathod, S Bano… - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
A drastic decline in the sources of emissions of pollutants under COVID-19 induced
lockdown resulted in an unprecedented trends in most hazardous pollutants PM 2.5, PM 10 …

[HTML][HTML] Social and travel lockdown impact considering coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on air quality in megacities of India: present benefits, future challenges and …

S Jain, T Sharma - Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2020 - aaqr.org
ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) created enormous pressure across the
globe due to an increasing number of COVID-19 infected cases. All the governments' …

New directions: can a “blue sky” return to Indian megacities?

P Kumar, S Jain, BR Gurjar, P Sharma, M Khare… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Deterioration of air quality in Indian megacities (Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata) is much more
significant than that observed in the megacities of developed countries. Densely packed …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of COVID-19 outbreak on urban health and environment

A Girdhar, H Kapur, V Kumar, M Kaur, D Singh… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2021 - Springer
The WHO announced coronavirus disease a Public Health Emergency on 30 January 2020,
and it spreads across the whole planet. Aftermath of outbreak of this disease at the global …