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Under-mining health: environmental justice and mining in India

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Title Under-mining health: environmental justice and mining in India
 
Creator Saha, S.
Pattanayak, S.K.
Sills, E.O.
Singha, A.K.
 
Subject environmental degradation
environmental change
environmental impact
environmental management
gis
health
 
Description Despite the potential for economic growth, extractive mineral industries can impose negative health externalities in mining communities. We estimate the size of these externalities by combining household interviews with mine location and estimating statistical functions of respiratory illness and malaria among villagers living along a gradient of proximity to iron-ore mines in rural India. Two-stage regression modeling with cluster corrections suggests that villagers living closer to mines had higher respiratory illness and malaria-related workday loss, but the evidence for mine workers is mixed. These findings contribute to the thin empirical literature on environmental justice and public health in developing countries
 
Date 2011
2012-06-04T09:15:05Z
2012-06-04T09:15:05Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Saha, S., Pattanayak, S.K., Sills, E.O., Singha, A.K. 2011. Under-mining health: environmental justice and mining in India . Health & Place 17 (1) :140-148. ISSN: 1353-8292.
1353-8292
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20691
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/3351
 
Language en
 
Source Health and Place