India’s Wind Potential Atlas at 120m agl
<p>India is blessed with abundant sources of renewable energy and by March 2019 about 77.6 GW RE based capacity has already been installed in the country along with45.4GW of large hydro capacity. Out of
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Wind Data Sharing Policy (WDSP)
The Ministry approved Wind Data Sharing Policy proposed by National Institute of Wind Energy. The Wind Power development programme in India was initiated at the end of Sixth Five Year Plan, in 1983-84.
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The tradeoffs between GHGs emissions, income inequality and productivity
Rising emission of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) and growing economic inequalities have emerged as key challenges for policymakers over the past two decades and the problems are likely to intensify in the foreseeable
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Economic incentives for the conservation of Bharathapuzha river: focus on sand mining
Rivers in Kerala are assailed by pollution, sedimentation, sand mining, and constriction of flows. The indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining, even in the midst of many regulatory and protective measures
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Does carbon tax makes sense? assessing global scenario and addressing Indian perspective
Carbon taxes have been frequently advocated as a cost-effective instrument for reducing emissions. However, in the practice of environmental policies, only few countries have implemented taxes based on
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Consumer’s acceptance towards genetically modified crops and growth of the economy: a theoretical approach
This paper develops a three-sector theoretical growth model to capture the role of consumers’ acceptance towards the second generation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the long run growth process
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Determinants of child health: an empirical analysis
Infant and child mortality rates in India have fallen by almost half from the time of adoption of millennium development goals to 2012 but there has not been a concurrent decrease in morbidity and under-nutrition
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Impact of agricultural related technology adoption on poverty: a study of select households in rural India
This paper applies a program evaluation technique to assess the causal effect of adoption of agricultural related technologies on consumption expenditure and poverty measured by different indices. The
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Biofuel feedstock cultivation in India: implications for food security and rural livelihoods
Biofuels are acquiring importance due to their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The two most important biofuels – viz., bioethanol and bio-diesel, are largely considered supplementary to
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Low carbon finance for the state of Tamil Nadu: investments, gaps, and barriers
The absence of a clear articulation of low carbon funding requirements and an audit of low carbon investment at the sub-national level has encouraged this study. As a case in point, this study assesses