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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 deployment strategies over the
past two decades in West Bengal, the most arsenic-exposed state in
India and also the first to act for remediation of the crisis. One
of the greatest challenges in arsenic-exposed zones is to provide
sustainable access to reliably arsenic-safe free water. For nearly
twenty years the Government of India and national water
distribution institutions in collaboration with multi-lateral
funding agencies have sought to pump in money, push technology
collected through global tenders, and enlist the support of
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), but their efforts have
yielded little success. This book is the outcome of the authors'
intensive fieldwork, guided by the conceptual framework of the
latest literature on environmental economics and consumer
behaviour. It presents a framework and estimates based on field
level primary data. Secondary official source-based data are also
collated from various scattered sources into a valuable,
comprehensive collection. Lastly, the book includes a revealing
analysis of factors affecting households' participation.
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 deployment strategies over the
past two decades in West Bengal, the most arsenic-exposed state in
India and also the first to act for remediation of the crisis. One
of the greatest challenges in arsenic-exposed zones is to provide
sustainable access to reliably arsenic-safe free water. For nearly
twenty years the Government of India and national water
distribution institutions in collaboration with multi-lateral
funding agencies have sought to pump in money, push technology
collected through global tenders, and enlist the support of
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), but their efforts have
yielded little success. This book is the outcome of the authors'
intensive fieldwork, guided by the conceptual framework of the
latest literature on environmental economics and consumer
behaviour. It presents a framework and estimates based on field
level primary data. Secondary official source-based data are also
collated from various scattered sources into a valuable,
comprehensive collection. Lastly, the book includes a revealing
analysis of factors affecting households' participation.
This book evaluates local conservation successes of global south in
the climate milieu, as an empirical evidence of ‘Bio-rights’ of
commons at community-ecosystem interface for sustainable
intensification of nature’s goods and services. Bio-rights is a
right-based neo-economic conservation paradigm that compensates the
opportunity costs incurred in conservation efforts by the marginal
communities, living near globally important ecosystems and
dependent on it for their livelihood, through payments from
environment services. The book would bring forth the true value of
circular economic interventions in socio-ecological conservation,
shaped through sustainable human interactions with
nature. This multilevel study of conservation science serves
an interdisciplinary academia, consistent with conventions on
climate change, bio-diversity and sustainable development, to
establish links between conservation priorities and development
objectives. Herein, Bio-rights is introduced as a ‘design
approach’ for production linked sustainable development,
supplemented with case studies from the east.
This book evaluates local conservation successes of global south in
the climate milieu, as an empirical evidence of 'Bio-rights' of
commons at community-ecosystem interface for sustainable
intensification of nature's goods and services. Bio-rights is a
right-based neo-economic conservation paradigm that compensates the
opportunity costs incurred in conservation efforts by the marginal
communities, living near globally important ecosystems and
dependent on it for their livelihood, through payments from
environment services. The book would bring forth the true value of
circular economic interventions in socio-ecological conservation,
shaped through sustainable human interactions with nature. This
multilevel study of conservation science serves an
interdisciplinary academia, consistent with conventions on climate
change, bio-diversity and sustainable development, to establish
links between conservation priorities and development objectives.
Herein, Bio-rights is introduced as a 'design approach' for
production linked sustainable development, supplemented with case
studies from the east.
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