AIR POLLUTION AND ITS ABATEMENT

Air pollution is a major global problem and is not a recent phenomenon. Air pollution is the introduction into the atmosphere of chemicals, particulates, or biological materials that cause discomfort, disease, or death to humans and damage other living organisms such as food crops. Contamination of the atmosphere has been a constant side effect of industrialization. The severity of air pollution and the public's acute awareness of it, however, is relatively recent. Severe occurrences like the deadly 1952 London"black fog" are rare, but they have served to highlight the need for pollution abatement. Along with health hazards, pollution has also been identified as a causal factor in building deterioration, lowered visibility, global warming, and widespread vegetation damage, all of which have serious economic consequences. As these consequences become widely known, pollution abatement becomes increasingly important.Economic consequences entail significant economic costs. Given all these costs,the public and governments are accelerating their search for ways to reduce toxic emissions.Now the question becomes one of finding the most effective abatement techniques and their implementation. The main strategies we are focusing on include direct regulation, taxation, facilitation of private litigation, and a system of tradable pollution permits. These four strategies are not necessarily mutually exclusive.There is clearly an economic expense attached to pollution abatement measures.The conflicting interests in the pollution debate make the issue a political one .Therefore pollution abatement techniques must be economically as well as politically feasible and sustainable overtime. Developing an approach that meets all of these requirements is a world class challenge.

SUBMITTED BY : Aashna Khanna IInd IT Surbhi Jain IInd IT HBTI , Kanpur