Research and Policy Publications

Towards Global Water Security: A Departure from the Status Quo?

Cecilia Tortajada and Victor Fernandez, Chapter of the book 'Global Water Security', World Wat [...]

Water resources are, and have always been, a multidimensional resource that crosses all social and economic sectors. Globally, growing population and urbanisation have increased the pressure to meet the water, energy, and food demands of larger populatio [...]

Quest for Water Security in Singapore

Cecilia Tortajada and Cheryl Wong, Chapter of the book ‘Global Water Security’, World Water Co [...]

For decades, the main goal of Singapore in terms of water resources has been to become water-secure. As a result, water availability, accessibility, and affordability have traditionally been decided at the highest political level. Singapore’s overall dev [...]

The transboundariness approach and prioritization of transboundary aquifers between [...]

Rosario Sanchez, Laura Rodriguez and Cecilia Tortajada, 2018, Ambio, pages 1-11

“Transboundariness” refers to a new approach that identifies and prioritizes transboundary aquifers using socio-economic and political criteria, improving their characterization by using other variables in addition to their mere physical boundaries. This [...]

Impacts of megatrends on the global water landscape

Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2018, International Journal of Water Resources Developme [...]

Megatrends can be defined as ‘sequence[s] of events or observed phenomena that have some momentum in a particular direction and some level of durability’ (Rohner, 2018). They are reshaping the future of the world in many known and unknown ways. In the ar [...]

Building Sustainability

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