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

• Main Authors: Das, Abhijit (Author), Roy, Joyashree (Author), Chakraborti, Sayantan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: India Studies in Business and Economics,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.