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Over the past four decades, the leather processing activity migrated from developed to developing countries. This led to the uncontrolled and unplanned development of noxious leather processing industries in the environmentally-stressed developing countries, such as Bangladesh. Although these industries are very important for the flourishing export oriented economy of the country, lack of basic environmental protection measures have been entailing serious threats to the environmental sus...Over the past four decades, the leather processing activity migrated from developed to developing countries. This led to the uncontrolled and unplanned development of noxious leather processing industries in the environmentally-stressed developing countries, such as Bangladesh. Although these industries are very important for the flourishing export oriented economy of the country, lack of basic environmental protection measures have been entailing serious threats to the environmental sustainability. In response, a relocation project was launched by the Bangladesh government for the industries in Hazaribagh - the principle leather processing zone located in the capital Dhaka. The project planned the relocation of these industries to an upstream and outskirt location Savar, with the target of mitigating the environmental pollution and ecological hazard. This paper reviewed the relocation project plan from the urban planning and the environmental economics points of views. The concepts and methods, applied for the review, are the Social theories of the City, Willingness to Pay, Pigovian Tax and the Hedonic Pricing Method. The results prove that the projects target of ensuring environmental sustainability will go in vain because launching and executing this project was merely a political decision, which did not take into account any of those scientific arguments. The upstream location of Savar violates the agricultural land use as a flood flow zone with flood retention facilities proposed in the Dhaka Structure Plan. This also risks the pollution of the entire surface water sources of Dhaka. The argument of relocating the leather industries to a fringe location proves to be invalid in light of the historic growth trend of Dhaka. 82willing to move to the proposed location nor willing to pay for the relocation and the effluent treatment sanctioning at the new location. 18willing to move under the conditions of expensive subsidies, compensations and government provided effluent treatment facilities. The Bangladesh government has to pay BDT 5.93 billion as compensation and subsidy in addition to the actual project cost of BDT 5.45 billion, whereas the expense is BDT 3.57 billion for redeveloping Hazaribagh as a planned, controlled leather processing zone in the present location with adequate environmental protection measures. The proposed redevelopment plan of Hazaribagh brown field to a mixed use area after industries relocation poses further threats to the human health and calculate high hedonic price of the houses. Finally, considering the three consecutive failures to meet the relocation deadlines, these results claim that rather the redevelopment of Hazaribagh industries in the present location by providing the environment friendly leather processing equipments will ensure environmental sustainability of the city.» weiterlesen» einklappen

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