Cleaning the Ganges in Varanasi to Attract Tourists

IF 0.5 Q4 ECONOMICS

ATLANTIC ECONOMIC JOURNAL Pub Date : 2017-11-02 DOI:10.1111/nrm.12177

A. Batabyal, H. Beladi

引用次数: 8

Abstract

We study two probabilistic approaches to cleaning the Ganges river when the underlying goal is to use the cleanup to sustain tourism in Varanasi, India. The first approach models the idea that because resources are scarce and cleanup is costly, not all pollutants in the Ganges can be removed. Therefore, a cleaning agency first establishes a benefit‐cost ratio rule and then it uses this rule to remove from the Ganges only those pollutants whose removal satisfies the ratio rule. In contrast, the second approach focuses on removing all pollutants from the Ganges but the emphasis now is on the frequency of cleanup given that pollutants accumulate temporally and hence water quality deteriorates over time. Finally, we compare and contrast these two approaches and discuss the connections between the two approaches and the sustainability of tourism in Varanasi.

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清洁瓦拉纳西恒河以吸引游客

我们研究了两种清洁恒河的概率方法，其根本目标是利用清洁来维持印度瓦拉纳西的旅游业。第一种方法模拟了这样一种想法，即由于资源稀缺，清理成本高昂，并非恒河中的所有污染物都能被清除。因此，清洁机构首先建立一个效益-成本比规则，然后使用该规则仅从恒河中去除那些去除满足比例规则的污染物。相比之下，第二种方法侧重于清除恒河中的所有污染物，但现在的重点是清理频率，因为污染物会随时间积累，因此水质会随时间恶化。最后，我们对这两种方法进行了比较和对比，并讨论了两种方法与瓦拉纳西旅游业可持续性之间的联系。

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ATLANTIC ECONOMIC JOURNAL ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

16.70%

发文量

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