Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Das, Abhijit (Συγγραφέας), Roy, Joyashree (Συγγραφέας), Chakraborti, Sayantan (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: India Studies in Business and Economics,
• Θέματα: Environmental management.; Water pollution.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Health Economics.

This book presents a socio-economic analysis of the issues linking technological innovation in providing arsenic-safe drinking water in rural areas. It presents concrete field based experiences of experiments and case studies depicting the plight and sufferings of people due to failed technological...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. The Plight
• Chapter 2. How much is too much?
• Chapter 3. Right to water
• Chapter 4. The shades of suffering
• Chapter 5. Are we 'learning from doing'?
• Chapter 6. Who served the poison?
• Chapter 7. In love with the ‘Devil’s Water’
• Chapter 8. The assassin on the move
• Chapter 9. Malignant intentions
• Chapter 10. The opening of the Pandora’s Box
• Chapter 11. Spilling the beans
• Chapter 12. Threats to Sustainability
• Chapter 13. The Value of Human Life
• Chapter 14. Pricing the Life?
• Chapter 15. A catastrophe sans border.