Research and Policy Publications

Managing Indonesian Haze: Complexities and Challenges

Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, Chapter of the book 'Pollution Across Borders: Transboun [...]

Exponential increase in land area used for oil palm cultivation in Indonesia has been possible primarily through the clearance of primary and secondary forests and other vegetative growths. As the population of Indonesia has increased, there has been pro [...]

Political Dynamics and Water Supply in Hong Kong

Kris Hartley, Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2018, Environmental Development, Volume 27 [...]

Management of environmental resources presents challenges across jurisdictional boundaries. In the case of river basins, multiple localities must coordinate water allocation, often across social, economic, and political contexts. As such, the scale of go [...]

Achieving Universal Access to Clean Water and Sanitation in an Era of Water Scarcity [...]

Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2018, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, V [...]

As the Millennium Development Goals did earlier, the Sustainable Development Goals have mobilised the international community into what can be the most important, although the most challenging, development goals of the 21st century. However, a main [...]

Dams and Human Development: Changing Societal Perceptions

Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, 2018, Hydropower & Dams Journal, pages 8-9

Societal perceptions on any issue change with time. Thus, it is no surprise that the overall attitudes and perceptions of the contributions of large dams to human development over the past 100 years have changed significantly, at national and internation [...]

Building Sustainability

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