Cleaning-up the Ganges: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Ganga Action Plan

by A. Markandya, M. N. Murty

This book analyzes the case for cleaning the Ganga river system, using rigorous cost-benefit analysis. The first study of its kind, it evaluates user benefits and non-user benefits, incidence of costs, methods of appropriating part of the benefits for the financial sustainability of the
project, and income distribution benefits.

Hardcover

First published January 25, 2001