Ajay Singh Nagpure

Datos Biográficos

ID6820737
NOMBREAjay Singh Nagpure
NOMBRESAjay Singh
APELLIDONagpure
FIRMANAGPURE A S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0002-4817-7329
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • The urban burden of disease in India

    Open AccessAnu Ramaswami, Ajay Singh Nagpure et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2026

    This study—for the first time—quantifies multiple health risks across 40 + Indian cities associated with seven key physical provisioning systems—energy (cooking fuels), mobility, housing, water and sanitation, food, and greenery—and compares them with national risk profiles. We harmonize diverse urban-scale datasets to estimate premature mortality per 100,000 population from diverse risk factors including inadequate infrastructure, environmental …

  • Transboundary emission contribution to PM 2.5 concentrations in Indian cities

    Open AccessRaj M Lal, Ajay Singh Nagpure et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Targeting urban air quality improvements in India, the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) was launched in 2019 to reduce PM 2.5 concentrations by 20%–30% in 122 initial cities over a 7 year period (2017–2024). However, considering the regional nature of air pollution nationwide and the significant emission load from rural areas, a potentially large fraction of urban PM 2.5 might originate from emissions outside of a city’s boundary, i.e. transboun…

  • Studying extreme heat and social inequality in Global South cities

    Open AccessNeha Agarwal, Ajay Singh Nagpure et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • PM 2.5 exposures increased for the majority of Indians and a third of the global population during Covid-19 lockdowns

    Open AccessAjay Singh Nagpure, Raj M LalARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    In response to the emergence of COVID-19 during Spring 2020, many countries implemented nationwide lockdowns and mandatory stay-at-home orders, which resulted in historically clean ambient air quality. However, in many parts of the world, biomass burning for cooking is a common activity, and in India specifically, it has been implicated as the leading contributor to indoor and ambient PM 2.5 , and its activity was not stopped and likely increased…

  • Socially-differentiated urban metabolism methodology informs equity in coupled carbon-air pollution mitigation strategies

    Open AccessAjay Singh Nagpure, Kangkang Tong et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    A differentiated urban metabolism methodology is developed to quantify inequality and inform social equity in urban infrastructure strategies aimed at mitigating local in-boundary PM2.5 and co-beneficially reducing transboundary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The method differentiates community-wide local PM2.5 and transboundary GHG emission contributions by households of different income strata, alongside commercial and industrial activities. A…

  • Resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India

    Open AccessAjay Singh Nagpure, Mark Reiner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    This paper develops a methodology to assess the resource requirements of inclusive urban development in India and compares those requirements to current community-wide material and energy flows. Methods include: (a) identifying minimum service level benchmarks for the provision of infrastructure services including housing, electricity and clean cooking fuels; (b) assessing the percentage of homes that lack access to infrastructure or that consume…

  • An urban systems framework to assess the trans-boundary food-energy-water nexus

    Open AccessAnu Ramaswami, Dana Boyer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    This paper develops a generalizable systems framework to analyze the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus from an urban systems perspective, connecting in- and trans-boundary interactions, quantifying multiple environmental impacts of community-wide FEW provisioning to cities, and visualizing FEW supply-chain risks posed to cities by the environment. Delhi’s community-wide food demand includes household consumption by socio-economic-strata, visitors- an…

  • Uncertainties in emissions estimates of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in India and their impacts on regional air quality

    Open AccessEri Saikawa, Marcus Trail et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Greenhouse gas and air pollutant precursor emissions have been increasing rapidly in India. Large uncertainties exist in emissions inventories and quantification of their uncertainties is essential for better understanding of the linkages among emissions and air quality, climate, and health. We use Monte Carlo methods to assess the uncertainties of the existing carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx…

  • Municipal solid waste and dung cake burning

    Open AccessRaj M Lal, Ajay Singh Nagpure et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    The Taj Mahal—an iconic World Heritage monument built of white marble—has become discolored with time, due, in part, to high levels of particulate matter (PM) soiling its surface (Bergin et al 2015 Environ. Sci. Technol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es504005q 49 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es504005q ). Such discoloration has required extensive and costly treatment (2015 Two Hundred Sixty Second Report on Effects of Pollution on Taj Parliament of India…