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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Jadavpur, Santospur, Kolkata, India
Abhijit Das
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Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Joyashree Roy
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Jadavpur, Flat No 7, Shri Ram Ashray, Kolkata, India
Sayantan Chakraborti
About the authors
Dr. Abhijit Das is currently an Assistant Professor in Economics at Vijoygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata, West Bengal (India). He has been researching extensively over past one decade in the various villages of rural West Bengal to understand the social, economic and political issues that drives lack of access to safe drinking water. His field research has been primarily funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India. He has published more than 15 peer reviewed articles.
Dr. Joyashree Roy, Professor of Economics, coordinates the Global Change Programme and also directs Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Project at the Jadavpur University. She is in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning panel –IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). She has been involved in preparation of Stern Review Report, Global Energy Assessment and many other national and global reports. She has published morethan 80 peer reviewed articles. She is researching in this area for more than two decades.
Sayantan Chakrabarti is a development communication consultant. Few of his notable projects, till date, are ‘LIFE / DEATH’ – a documentary film on the arsenic crisis; ‘Commons’ – a multi-media communication series explaining the idea and necessity of Commons; ‘Dhumil Hota Astitva’ – a film highlighting the impact of environmental pollution on heritage; ‘Mother Anonymous’ – addressing the plight of surrogate mothers; ‘Buy Buy King’ – exploring lack of consumer choice; ‘Harit Lehar’ – explaining the need of composting as a sustainable method of waste management. He also assisted Dr. Rohit Jigyasu for the paper ‘Appropriate technology for post-disaster reconstruction’ in the book ‘Rebuilding after disasters from emergency to sustainability’, published by Taylor and Francis in 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal
Authors: Abhijit Das, Joyashree Roy, Sayantan Chakraborti
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0682-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0680-7Published: 14 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9227-5Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0682-1Published: 02 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 136
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Health Economics