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Economic Incentives for the Conservation of Bharathapuzha River: Focus on Sand Mining

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  • Lakshmi Sreedhar

    (Joint Director, National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development (NILERD), NITI Aayog, Govt. of India.)

  • Zareena Begum Irfan

    (Madras School of Economics)

Abstract

Rivers in Kerala are assailed by pollution, sedimentation, sand mining, and constriction of flows. The indiscriminate and unscientific sand mining, even in the midst of many regulatory and protective measures for their conservation, have made the condition of these rivers pathetic. Bharathapuzha basin is the largest among all the 44 river basins of Kerala and the second longest river of the State. The drying up of Bharathapuzha River has become a matter of grave concern to the scientists and environmentalists. This paper tries to establish that implementing economic incentives is a possible method which can be adopted in the conservation practices of Bharathapuzha River.

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  • Lakshmi Sreedhar & Zareena Begum Irfan, 2016. "Economic Incentives for the Conservation of Bharathapuzha River: Focus on Sand Mining," Working Papers 2016-140, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
  • Handle: RePEc:mad:wpaper:2016-140
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    Keywords

    Conservation; Economics incentives; River Bharathapuzha; Sand mining;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
    • Q26 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources
    • Q29 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Other
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics

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