Pooja Sharma

• PhD , Energy Studies Program (ESP), School of International Studies (SIS), JNU
• Jawaharlal Nehru University

Rapid economic growth coupled with urbanization has led to massive detrimental environmental quality. In addition to the severe crises of climate change, several metropolitan cities in India have experienced an additional impact on environmental quality. This paper examines the air and water quality in two metropolitan cities in India, Delhi and Ko...

With increasing urbanization, accompanied by the growing population, the number of vehicles in metropolitan cities has negatively impacted the environment and climate across all metropolitan cities in India. This excessive urbanization has overloaded the limited, scarce resources, and deteriorated the environmental quality, affecting natural resour...

Apart from being a leading energy consumer, South Asia has the most significant carbon emission. Significantly all South Asian countries have ratified the Paris Agreement. Consequently, they must craft a robust transition policy to meet their commitment. Though the local context essentially defines the transition strategy, the global processes have...

Many of the Global South’s population lacks electricity access. In addition, Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. Against this backdrop, the paper attempts to evaluate the accessibility of electricity and clean energy in the rural areas of the region Global South...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a critical role in economic growth and development. It is imperative to examine factors such as socioeconomic, political, and environmental factors that are responsible for determining the potential to attract foreign investment. The paper attempts to evaluate the attractiveness of FDI in India in other words,...

The study of the health impact of air pollution in East Delhi is mentioned in the paper. People's health suffers as a result of air pollution, and a significant portion of their income is spent on medical expenses. The primary goal of this research is to estimate the benefit that an individual would receive in East Delhi if there is a reduction in...

The paper highlights the role of subsidies in the PV solar installments both from the lenders and from the receiver’s perspective, evaluating the existing financial incentives contributing to the adoption of PV solar technology. It evaluates the costs and benefits accumulated by the installation of grid-connected PV solar panel of size 2.5 and 10 k...

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a substantial need to introspect the socio-economic systems of specifically the developing nations has emerged. The outbreak of informal sector crises and the health crises have compelled the developing countries to revisit their development process. The status of informal employment and the prevailing inequ...

The elementary purpose of this book has been to encourage individuals to follow their dreams most sustainably. And while doing so, respect every culture and traditional sentiments by embracing tolerance, adaptability and resilience. The book leaves the readers with the thought that when the purpose is to fulfil the larger aims of sustainability, th...

The paper highlights the role of subsidies in the PV solar installments both from the lenders and from the receiver’s perspective, evaluating the existing financial incentives contributing to the adoption of PV solar technology. It evaluates the costs and benefits accumulated by the installation of grid-connected PV solar panel of size 2.5 and 10 k...

International Migration has been an evolving phenomenon of economic development of the human race. It has a cause-and-effect relationship with the development process since it plays a critical role in economic development. ‘It is a global phenomenon growing in scope, complexity and impact’ (United Nations)[3]. The human rights law advocates freedom...

The emerging global challenge of climate change focuses on climate-resilient growth across all developing nations, Brazil has proved to be a benchmark for the energy transition to environmentally sustainable energy systems. The structural regime, sources of finance for the deployment of renewable energy and Research and Development are critical for...

Energy is a crucial component of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) vision, which strives for an integrated, competitive and resilient region, opening investment opportunities. All the developing economies within the Asia-Pacific region are expected to account for approximately two-thirds of global energy demand growth by 2040 (International Energy...

With the onset of Climate Change as a biggest Challenge in today’s era, energy security and the consequent energy transition has been addressed as issue of concern by all the countries across globe. In the context of conceptualisation of energy security in a 4 A framework defined in terms of accessibility, affordability, availability and acceptabil...

South Asia is the leading consumer of energy, out of which hydrocarbon accounts for a predominant share. However, it is neither richly endowed with hydrocarbons nor has been able to harness its potential comprehensively. Consequently, with economies gaining pace, it has become an energy-deficit region, meeting most of its demand from imports. There...

A well-structured energy charter, fostering decentralized energy systems along with infrastructure grid connectivity between the neighbouring countries is highly recommended. Such a re-oriented energy model would not only enable the countries to address the challenge of preparedness for disaster risk but also ensure energy security for the region a...

In the era of globalization, the world is battling to save human lives owing to the deadly disease of COVID-19. Countries, irrespective of their level of development are struggling with the challenge of life and livelihood posed by the disease. Countries with one of the world’s best medical health facilities are failing miserably to save human live...

The development process in India has ended up with increased inequality, climate change, health and natural disasters and not to exclude the series of political unrest. The consecutive socio-political unrest and internal disputes amongst various sections of society, classes, religion etc., the rising conflicts between the centre and state and disor...

A grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system with energy storage can help in overcoming the intermittency as well as in reducing the peak demand on the network. It also benefits in electricity bills savings. In this context, it is significant to examine the appropriate use of local energy storage (i.e. battery) connected with PV for reducing the...

A grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system with energy storage can help in overcoming the intermittency as well as in reducing the peak demand on the network. It also benefits in electricity bills savings. In this context, it is significant to examine the appropriate use of local energy storage (i.e. battery) connected with PV for reducing the...

In this work, a typical South Norwegian house with BIPV system is considered for potential application of on-site battery energy storage. Economic and technical operation performance analysis has revealed that such a system can perform techno-economically much better compared to its counterpart. Techno-economic performance of BIPV system with appro...

Among the various renewable options, India is putting significant efforts into developing solar power. One of the key issues for India’s future endeavour on solar power is the high dependence on the international market for technology and finance.a well-structured financial market that facilitates FDI and protects the economy from non-performing as...

ABSTRACT With the onset of climate change as the biggest challenge in today’s era, energy security and the consequent energy transition has been addressed as issue of concern by all the countries across globe. In the context of conceptualization of energy security in a ‘4 A framework’ defined in terms of accessibility, affordability, availability a...

The paper attempts to evaluate health benefits individuals can derive by reducing the expenditure on health related diseases by deploying the methodology of health production function. The study is based on survey of households located around half kilometer of monitoring station for ambient air pollution of Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) si...

This paper examines the inflation rates for the period 2005–06 and 2011–12 and concludes that inflation in 2005-06 hurts the poor more since the rise in food prices was substantial in this period and food constitutes a substantial proportion of their total expenditure. The paper observes that there was a substantial rise in Inflation which was expe...

The paper tests the hypothesis that rural electrification and increasing deployment of renewable energy in rural areas affect the agricultural income which in turn reduces the level of poverty for the sixteen selected states for the year 2011. An index of rural electrification and renewable energy is constructed using appropriate indicators by the...

India for the past decade has been progressing on a path characterised by rapid economic growth and urbanisation along with population growth. This has eventually proved to be detrimental to the state of environment in India. As a result environmental issues have become the epitome of all the challenges in a developing economy like India. The paper...

This paper attempts to explore the impact of oil prices on stock prices, exchange rate, Inflation in the Indian economy for the time period May 1996 to April 2017. This relationship will be investigated for pre‐ and post‐2008 crises, with an aim to explore the linkages between the oil prices and stock prices. Financial crisis of 2008 has affected t...

With the onset of Climate Change as a biggest Challenge in today's era, energy security and the consequent energy transition has been addressed as issue of concern by all the countries across globe. In the context of conceptualisation of energy security in a 4 A framework defined in terms of accessibility, affordability, availability and acceptabil...

Experts feel that Central Asian energy markets reflect largely the Global trends. In the past few years production of oil witnessed a fall among the oil rich countries in the region. Production of gas grew primarily due to the demand for the same in the neighbouring markets, especially China. In the years ahead the oil and gas industry is likely to...

The paper implicates the study of health impact due to air pollution in East Delhi. Air pollution causes deterioration in the health status of people due to which a major proportion of their income is incurred on medical expenditure. The major objective of this research is to approximately appraise the beneeit that an individual would attain in Eas...

The project involves the study of health impact due to air pollution in West Delhi. Air pollution causes deterioration in the health status of people due to which a major proportion of their income is incurred on medical expenditure. The major objective of the project is to approximately assess the benefit that an individual would get in West Delhi...