This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleve...
The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw f...
byCecilia Tortajada,Kevin Parris
Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources. The linkages between Water Inf...
byCecilia Tortajada,Asit Biswas
This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing ...
This book highlights the institutional, legal, and policy measures to manage water pollution in India, and discusses how effective they have been in improving t...
byAsit Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada
This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address th...
byCecilia Tortajada,Asit Biswas
Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes...
byCecilia Tortajada,Asit Biswas
Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal framew...
As water demand has increased globally and resources have become more limited because of physical scarcity, over-exploitation and pollution, it has been necessa...
byCecilia Tortajada,Dogan Altinbilek,Asit Biswas
One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are es...
byAsit Biswas,Cecilia Tortajada,Philippe Rohner
This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in ...
byJohan Rockström,Cecilia Tortajada,Caroline Figuères
If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water managem...
byCorinne Ong,Cecilia Tortajada,Ojasvee Arora
This open access book highlights knowledge and expertise in Urban Water Demand Management (WDM) in ASEAN through comprehensive literature review and analysis, a...
by Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas
Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions, policies and regulation, it provides basic services to growing pop...
byAsit Biswas,Pawan Sachdeva,Cecilia Tortajada
This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and liter...