Does Urbanization Affect Environment: Empirical Evidence From India

摘要

The aim of this paper is to examine the trends of urbanization in India and its affect on environment. The findings reveal that there is considerable increase of urbanization in the Indian economy but varies across its states/regions. The empirical investigation indicates that urbanization has a significant positive impact on environmental degradation, which is measured here in the form of air pollution only. The other factors that affect the environment are infrastructure and per capita SDP. While the former is partly significant, the later is no significant at all. The paper finally suggests that there is need of some policy measures that can control air pollution without much restriction on increasing urbanization, infrastructure and per capita SDP in the economy.