Proceedings of the NDIEAS-2024 International Symposium on New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Anthropology-2024 (NDIEAS 2024)

Air Pollution: Health and Livelihood Challenges of Women in India

Authors
Swati1, *, Mani Pratap2
1Assistant Professor, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, India
2Assistant Professor, Central University of South Bihar, Patna, India
*Corresponding author. Email: swati@sxuk.edu.in
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Swati
Available Online 13 June 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_24How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Environment; Women; Livelihood; Sustainability
Abstract

The environment Protection and preservation have been a deep rooted tradition in India as the women in the country irrespective of their religion, race & caste; participate actively to protect the environment. The effect of environmental pollution has been observed as challenges on health, livelihood & sustainability. Environmental pollution has certain gender issues; and as the women and children are more susceptible from the effects of air pollution, water pollution and global environmental pollution. The vulnerability is quantified in terms of life & livelihood, employment, health aspects, sustainability and migration. In this paper the researcher has focused upon the gender relation in the environmental issues. It focuses upon the issues of indoor air pollution particularly on the health and livelihood challenges upon women. To examine the efficacy of existing laws and policy measures to deal with the same and to analyse the interplay between national and international relations.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the NDIEAS-2024 International Symposium on New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Anthropology-2024 (NDIEAS 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 June 2024
ISBN
978-2-38476-255-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_24How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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