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  title info:
    title: Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh
    sub title: A Policy-Mix for Supplying Safe Water in Badly Affected Areas of Meherpur District
  name:
    name part: Akmam, Wardatul.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ja
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 113 p. 33 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way. At the outset, the book puts forward the opinions of experts regarding the cause of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh, followed by sample surveys depicting socioeconomic and arsenic-related situations in three arsenic-affected villages in Meherpur district, Bangladesh. The major contribution of the author is the mixed-integer Pareto optimality model (tested and proved through computer simulation), developed in order to supply safe water to the badly affected people in Taranagar village. The model takes into account such issues as the costs of different safe water options, exposure to arsenic and bacteria, distance of the water source from home, indigenous cultural traits, environmental safety and acceptability of the options to the people. Besides successful development and application of the model, the book outlines ways to persuade people to change their habits regarding drinking tube-well water and proposes a system through which safe water can be supplied to Taranagar village. The book emphasizes socioeconomic, environmental and administrative aspects of selecting an optimal safe water option and ensuring consumption from safe water sources, which can be tested for other arsenic-affected areas as well. With relevant, attractive charts, tables, graphs, flowcharts and other graphics and with lucid language, the book makes rather difficult theoretical economics issues easily comprehensible and interesting to general readers, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers and NGO/GO workers who are dedicated to providing safe water to people affected by arsenic contamination.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Opinions of Experts on the Cause of Contamination. Chapter 3: Social Survey in the Study Area -- Chapter 4: Available Safe Water Options -- Chapter 5: A Model for Attaining Guidelines to Select Optimal Safe Water Option(S) and to Specify Their Locations -- Chapter 6: Simulation Results -- Chapter 7: Mechanisms To Convince People to Adopt Safe Water Options -- Chapter 8: A System For Providing Safe Water -- Chapter 9: Taranagar From 2000 To 2012: Changes in Arsenic Related Situation -- Chapter 10: Conclusions -- Appendices.
  note: by Wardatul Akmam.
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Regional economics
  subject:
    topic: Spatial economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Regional/Spatial Science
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  classification: HT388
  classification: HD28-9999
  classification: 338.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, 16
  identifier: 9784431551546
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55154-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 171220
    record change date: 20171221021029.0
    record identifier: 978-4-431-55154-6