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Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh

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This chapter provides a background to this research on arsenic mitigation in Bangladesh with a review of related literature, along with its objectives and methodology. The research addressed the socio-economic aspects of supplying safe water to the arsenic-hit people in three villages in Meherpur district with special emphasis on one village (Taranagar) that was the most affected among the three villages under consideration. Both secondary and primary data were used for this research and the principal methods that were adopted were the social survey and multi-objective mixed integer programming.

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    The Union (administrative unit) of Bagoan was located in Mujibnagar Upazilla under Meherpur District. Mujibnagar was separated from Meherpurpur Sadar Upazilla on 24 February 2000.

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Akmam, W. (2017). Introduction. In: Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 16. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55154-6_1

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