Measuring technical efficiency and shadow price of water pollutants for the leather industry in India: a directional distance function approach

Singh, Aparajita; Gundimeda, Haripriya

doi:10.1007/s11149-020-09422-z

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“…It should be noted that when a merger takes place, it may make sense for one of the merging tanneries to stop producing leather completely. As noted by Singh and Gundimeda (2021), this would be entirely consistent with existing regulatory approaches in Kanpur that sometimes involve shutting down the operations of one or more polluting tanneries. Singh and Gundimeda, (2021, p. 73) go on to point out that environmental regulations in the Indian leather industry are restricted to command and control policies ‘with mandatory uniform pollution control norms across all the tanneries.’ The available evidence (see the case‐study‐based work of Singh and Gundimeda, 2020) shows that the uniformity of these policies combined with high monitoring and enforcement costs have failed to successfully control pollution caused by tanneries in Kanpur.…”

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Tanneries in Kanpur and pollution in the Ganges: A theoretical analysis

Batabyal

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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We study pollution in the Ganges river caused by tanneries in the city of Kanpur in India.Two tanneries, 𝐴 and 𝐵, are located on the same bank of the Ganges in Kanpur. Both produce leather and the production of leather requires the use of chemicals that are toxic to humans. Tannery 𝐴 is located upstream from tannery 𝐵. Tannery 𝐴′𝑠 leather production depends directly only on labor use but tannery 𝐵′𝑠 leather production depends on labor use, the chemical waste generated by tannery 𝐴, and the natural pollution absorbing capacity of the Ganges. In this setting, we accomplish three tasks. First, we determine the equilibrium production of leather by both tanneries in the benchmark case in which there is no pollution. Second, we ascertain how the benchmark equilibrium is altered when tannery 𝐵 accounts for the negative externality imposed on it by tannery 𝐴. Finally, we analyze what happens to leather production and to labor use when the two tanneries merge and then we discuss some policy implications emanating from our research.

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Tanneries in Kanpur and pollution in the Ganges: A theoretical analysis

Batabyal

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Tanneries in Kanpur and Pollution in the Ganges: A Theoretical Analysis

Batabyal

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…This interesting proposal acknowledges that practical decision making may have to trump pragmatic notions of mass‐scale pollution remediation while funding and support is limited in the basin. Singh and Gundimeda (2021) suggest a technocentric approach for limiting industrial pollution where the best available technologies for improving the local environment are adopted while also considering technical and economic limitations. While Singh and Gundimeda (2021) see the state as having a role in regulating the technological transition of river‐polluting industries, they also advocate a need for market‐based policy instruments in the basin to incentivize change.…”

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“…Singh and Gundimeda (2021) suggest a technocentric approach for limiting industrial pollution where the best available technologies for improving the local environment are adopted while also considering technical and economic limitations. While Singh and Gundimeda (2021) see the state as having a role in regulating the technological transition of river‐polluting industries, they also advocate a need for market‐based policy instruments in the basin to incentivize change. In these recommendations there is an acknowledgment that policies are more likely to be successful if they engage and reward polluting industries for gradually implementing pollution control measures instead of prognosticating sudden and drastic policy changes which are costly and lack the political capital to implement.…”

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Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

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Carlton

Gautam³

2023

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Despite the fact that it is one of the most sacred and holy rivers in the world, the Ganges River is paradoxically among the most polluted. Over the past decade, researchers have described various mechanisms and actions for improving the pollution problem within the Ganges watershed. The aim of this policy-centric systematic review is to summarize these recommendations to make them more accessible for concerned citizen groups and planners while also critically appraising their findings. Using the Reporting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES) framework, our findings indicate that there are a wide range of potential solutions for mitigating pollution in the river system that originate from 37 peer-reviewed sources that encompass field studies, modeling analyses, and review articles. While we find that there are many actionable and thoughtprovoking recommendations for improving water quality and pollution mitigation given by authors studying the Ganges, there are also areas for improvement. Notably, there is a heavy focus on state-centric planning in the basin with only a few examples of policies that have been tailored toward encouraging communitybased solutions. This lack of community-based planning may relate to the fact that there is also a missing social dimension to policy recommendations in the Ganges watershed, where most of the articles that we reviewed were published in natural science journals and were not interdisciplinary in nature. Better reporting standards for recommendations arising from reviews and a greater focus on the interrelations between different components of the Ganges system may also yield novel and more trustworthy policy findings for practitioners.

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Measuring technical efficiency and shadow price of water pollutants for the leather industry in India: a directional distance function approach

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Tanneries in Kanpur and pollution in the Ganges: A theoretical analysis

Tanneries in Kanpur and pollution in the Ganges: A theoretical analysis

Tanneries in Kanpur and Pollution in the Ganges: A Theoretical Analysis

Resolving the Ganges pollution paradox: A policy‐centric systematic review

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