October 10, 2017 Building resilience to extreme events is very complex. It involves consideration of climatic and non-climatic factors, human and natural environments and their dynamics, and governance systems that include groups with wide-ranging authorities, influence and interests. In this … Read More
October 4, 2017 The rapid development of China’s market economy compels the adoption of water rights and associated market mechanisms to optimize the allocation of water resources. The complexity of understanding and practising Chinese water rights is highlighted by the … Read More
September 20, 2017 Rapidly changing global conditions will make water resources management and provision of services increasingly complex – more than ever before in human history. These changing conditions will be precipitated by issues like population (number and structure), urbanization, … Read More
July 3, 2017 As India’s population has increased, so have its water requirements. Before India was partitioned in 1947 into two countries, its population was around 390 million: 330 million in India and another 60 million in what later became … Read More
May 28, 2017 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO, 1996) defines food security as a condition “when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their … Read More
May 5, 2017 During 23–24 February 2017, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences organized a workshop, The Human Right to Water: An Interdisciplinary Focus and Contributions on the Central Role of Public Policies in Water and Sanitation Management, in Vatican City. … Read More
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada | April 29, 2017 In spite of the widespread belief, India is not facing a water crisis because of actual physical scarcity of this resource. It is facing a serious water crisis because of … Read More
April 1, 2017 The 3-parameter lognormal distribution is a general skew distribution in which the logarithm of any linear function of a given variable is normally distributed. The distribution is applied to the frequency analysis of floods, annual flows, and … Read More
January 1, 2017 As water demand has increased globally and resources have become more limited because of physical scarcity, over-exploitation and pollution, it has been necessary to develop more options for water supplies. These options include the production at large … Read More
August 1, 2016 This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions … Read More