An environmental impact assessment of cement pollution in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, India

The present study concentrates on the externalities of air pollution due to cement industries and quantification of these externalities with environmental valuation techniques and household health production function. The study revealed that the decline in crop production was directly related with pollution intensity. The agriculture damage function related the value of agriculture damages to averting expenditure of land and irrigation water and quality indices of land and water quality.