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Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas de Cecilia Tortajada

Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Editat de Cecilia Tortajada, Eduardo Araral
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2023
This is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Asit K. Biswas, for his manifold contributions to water resources policy and management and his extensive efforts over six decades to generate, synthetize, apply, and disseminate knowledge at national and global levels.
Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas includes invited contributions on global water issues from 23 globally renowned leaders in the public and private sectors, as well as academia, who have made significant contributions to the field of water resources policy, management, development and governance. The vision and expertise of this distinguished group of experts provides a unique focus on unfolding water issues and their bearing on world development
This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in water resource governance, sustainable development, and climate change.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032016641
ISBN-10: 1032016647
Pagini: 362
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Notă biografică

Cecilia Tortajada is Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. She has been an advisor to major international institutions like FAO, UNDP, JICA, ADB, OECD, IDRC and GIZ, and has worked in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe on water and natural resources management and environment policies. She is a member of the OECD Initiative on Water Governance and recipient of the prestigious Crystal Drop Award of the International Water Resources Association.
Eduardo Araral is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is the Co-Director of the Institute of Water Policy, Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Water Forum and Associate Editor of the Oxford University Press book series on water governance.

Cuprins

1. A decade of work on water governance at the OECD: what have we learnt? 2. The knowledge economy in the twenty-first century: a modest proposal 3. Scotland: a world-leading Hydro Nation 4. Nestlé’s corporate water strategy over time: a backward- and forward-looking view 5. Scarcity of water or scarcity of management? 6. Singapore’s water challenges past to present 7. Facing the challenge of extreme climate: the case of Metropolitan Sao Paulo 8. China’s achievements of water governance over the past seven decades 9. Some reflections on water for residential uses in developed countries 10. Can water professionals do more? 11. Reflections on flood control in Japan and recommendations for developing countries 12. A retrospective analysis of Laos’s Nam Theun 2 Dam 13. What I learned from Asit Biswas about transboundary water, ethics, mentoring and, in general, how to be a better human being 14. Water resilience and human life support - global outlook for the next half century 15. Adaptive and sustainable water management: from improved conceptual foundations to transformative change 16. Economically challenged and water scarce: identification of global populations most vulnerable to water crises 17. The status of the UN Watercourses Convention: does it still hold water? 18. Australian water decision making: are politicians performing? 19. Rent-seeking behaviour and regulatory capture in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia 20. Quenching the thirst of rapidly growing and water-insecure cities in sub-Saharan Africa 21. Sustainability of water and energy use for food production based on optimal allocation of agricultural irrigation water 22. Rethinking on the methodology for assessing global water and food challenges

Descriere

This book includes invited contributions on global water issues from 23 globally renown leaders in the public and private sectors as well as the academia who have made significant contributions to the field of water resources policy, management, development and governance.