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| author | Podder Sumanta Narayan |
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| contents | <p>This dissertation, submitted under the Social Outreach Programme of the LL.M. degree at the University of Burdwan, examines the critical relationship between fossil-fuel-based transportation, urban air pollution, and ecological degradation in Kolkata. Drawing from environmental law, urban policy, and critical eco-political analysis, the study situates Kolkata’s worsening air quality within broader anthropogenic patterns of environmental harm.</p> <p>The research critiques the modern capitalist-technological paradigm that treats nature as an infinite resource, exposing how urbanization and transport-driven emissions produce systemic ecological violence. It explores the rise of suspended particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen and sulphur oxides, and CO₂ in the city’s ambient air, and maps how this degradation correlates with policy failure, legal inertia, and public indifference.</p> <p>More than a technical study, the dissertation challenges dominant narratives of “development” by questioning the unsustainable modes of production and mobility. It argues that the environmental crisis in Kolkata is not an isolated or accidental event but a <strong>structural outcome of human-nature alienation</strong>, enabled by legal frameworks that fail to see ecology as co-constitutive of human life.</p> <p>The project calls for a paradigmatic shift—from anthropocentric environmental governance to one based on ecological responsibility and intergenerational justice. It concludes that law must begin to <strong>see through the haze</strong>, not just measure it</p> |
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| publishDate | 2021 |
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| spellingShingle | VEHICULAR POLLUTION IN KOLKATA –AN EMPIRICAL STUDY Podder Sumanta Narayan environmental law air pollution Kolkata urban ecology law and environment capitalism and nature PM10 <p>This dissertation, submitted under the Social Outreach Programme of the LL.M. degree at the University of Burdwan, examines the critical relationship between fossil-fuel-based transportation, urban air pollution, and ecological degradation in Kolkata. Drawing from environmental law, urban policy, and critical eco-political analysis, the study situates Kolkata’s worsening air quality within broader anthropogenic patterns of environmental harm.</p> <p>The research critiques the modern capitalist-technological paradigm that treats nature as an infinite resource, exposing how urbanization and transport-driven emissions produce systemic ecological violence. It explores the rise of suspended particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen and sulphur oxides, and CO₂ in the city’s ambient air, and maps how this degradation correlates with policy failure, legal inertia, and public indifference.</p> <p>More than a technical study, the dissertation challenges dominant narratives of “development” by questioning the unsustainable modes of production and mobility. It argues that the environmental crisis in Kolkata is not an isolated or accidental event but a <strong>structural outcome of human-nature alienation</strong>, enabled by legal frameworks that fail to see ecology as co-constitutive of human life.</p> <p>The project calls for a paradigmatic shift—from anthropocentric environmental governance to one based on ecological responsibility and intergenerational justice. It concludes that law must begin to <strong>see through the haze</strong>, not just measure it</p> |
| title | VEHICULAR POLLUTION IN KOLKATA –AN EMPIRICAL STUDY |
| topic | environmental law air pollution Kolkata urban ecology law and environment capitalism and nature PM10 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15740700 |