Water policies and their effects on water usage: The case of Tucson, Arizona
By Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran and Cecilia Tortajada, 2021. Article published in Water Utility Journal, Volume 28, pages 1-17.… Read More
Can China be carbon neutral before 2060?
May 31, 2021
To objective China observers, China’s pledge that its carbon emissions will peak before 2030 and it will achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 should not come as a surprise.… Read More
Compounding focusing events as windows of opportunity for flood management policy transitions in Singapore
By Cecilia Tortajada, Rachel Koh, Ishaan Bindal and Wee-Kiat Lim, 2021. Article published in Journal of Hydrology, Volume 599, 126345.… Read More
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. All governments had to borrow heavily and divert focus to counter the pandemic’s immediate adverse impacts, leaving limited resources and efforts towards achievement of SDGs.… Read More
Asia’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 crisis.… Read More
Providing Clean and Safe Water to All: A Global Perspective
By 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 by Anthony Teo, 2021, World Scientific, Singapore, pages 117–138.… Read More
Volume 37, Issue 3
May 2021
Special Issue on Hydropower-based Collaboration in South Asia: Socio-economic Development and the Electricity Trade… Read More
Dead in the water: a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe … the death of the Murray–Darling Basin
Richard Beasley, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, Australia, 2021, 296 pages.… Read More
An Assessment of the 2015–2017 Drought in Windhoek
By Pierre van Rensburg and Cecilia Tortajada, 2021. Article published in Frontiers in Climate.… Read More
When food meets BRI: China’s emerging Food Silk Road
By Cecilia Tortajada and Hongzhou Zhang, 2021. Article published in Global Food Security, Volume 29, 100518.… Read More