Threats to Sustainability

Abhijit Das (), Joyashree Roy and Sayantan Chakrabarti ()
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Abhijit Das: Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College

A chapter in Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal, 2016, pp 51-58 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The groundwater arsenic contamination is over three decades ago. Over the years, there have been slew of mitigation measures planned and executed by several private organisations as well as government bodies. Unfortunately, none of these have attained the elusive mark of sustainability. To decipher the crucial missing link using theoretical framework and observations from the field, we make an assessment of mitigation actions taken over the past three decades. By scrutinising these efforts, we try and comprehend the real reasons due to which the mitigation efforts have failed to yield the optimum results. In the process, we also try and reinforce the fact that the arsenic crisis should always have been considered and addressed as a socio-economic crisisCrisis rather than only a public healthPublic health engineering one.

Keywords: Human Capital; Safe Water; Arsenic Contamination; Mitigation Effort; Private Partner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0682-1_12

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