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The primary objective of the Centre is thus generation, synthesis and application of knowledge, and extensive global dissemination of the related information.
International Journal of Water Resources Development
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Workshop for Water Ethics
6th Interdisciplinary Colloquium Webinar via Webex to be held on Tuesday 18 May 2021 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM GMT+2. For its 6th Colloquium, the Association Workshop for Water Ethics (W4W)1 remains true to its ethical and interdisciplinary approach. It shall explore what water ethics means in practice, based on practical examples from the fields.
Research & Policy Publications
Providing Clean and Safe Water to All: A Global Perspective
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, Chapter of the book: "Univer-Cities Reshaping Strategies to Meet Radical Change, Pandemics and Inequality Revisiting the Social Compact?", edited...
Read MoreAn Assessment of the 2015–2017 Drought in Windhoek
April 2021 By Pierre van Rensburg and Cecilia Tortajada, Frontiers in Climate. This paper offers a review of the 2015–2017 drought in Windhoek and the...
Read MoreWhen food meets BRI: China’s emerging Food Silk Road
April 2021 By Cecilia Tortajada and Hongzhou Zhang, Global Food Security, 29, 100518. One of the crucial but overlooked aspects of China’s Belt and Road...
Read MorePotable Water Reuse in Australia: Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Communication Strategies, and Experiences
Cecilia Tortajada and John C. Radcliffe, Chapter of the Book 'The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies', edited by Robert Brears, 2021, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham,...
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Sustainable Development Goals – will the Western World meet the deadline?
May 6, 2021 The pandemic has seriously disrupted global plans to achieve SDG targets because of unexpected and very high economic, social and health costs....
Read MoreAsia’s failed resilience and grim water future
April 27, 2021 Governments in Asia need to focus on long-term planning that informs policies, decision-making and allocation of finances to tackle the region’s water...
Read MoreDead in the water: a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe … the death of the Murray–Darling Basin
April 20, 2021 Many from outside of Australia may be puzzled as to why anyone would write ‘a very angry book’ about water reform in,...
Read MoreHow China eradicated absolute poverty
April 12, 2021 China has lifted about 800 million people out of absolute poverty and become the second-largest economy in the world. In 1980 China's...
Read MoreBuilding Sustainability
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