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
How 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 per capita GDP was $194.80－10 percent of Brazil ($1,947.28) and 73 percent of India ($266.58). But thanks to years of good economic management and rapid growth, its per capita GDP increased by more than 58 times to $10,216,6 in 2019－nearly 5.45 times of India ($2,099.60) and 1.31 times of Brazil ($8,717.20).… Read More
Get really tough on water polluters, experts advise Vietnam
April 9, 2021
Experts say Vietnam should strengthen its laws and enforce them very strictly to improve the worsening problem of water pollution in the country.… Read More
Catch the rain: Another feel good plan
March 22, 2021
India’s water management has been on an unsustainable path for decades. This has ensured that not enough water of appropriate qualities is available not only for basic human needs like drinking, cooking and proper personal hygiene but also for industrial, commercial, agricultural and environmental purposes. There is not a single Indian urban centre where its inhabitants can safely drink directly water provided by public utilities.… Read More
Potable Water Reuse in Australia: Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Communication Strategies, and Experiences
By Cecilia Tortajada and John C. Radcliffe, Chapter of the book: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies, edited by Robert C. Brears, 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pages 347-396.… Read More
Potable Water Reuse in Australia: Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, Communication Strategies, and Experiences
By 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, pages 1-50.… Read More
The Role of Hydropower in South Asia’s Energy Future
By Ramesh Ananda Vaidya, David James Molden, Arun Bhakta Shrestha, Nisha Wagle and Cecilia Tortajada, 2021. Article published in International Journal of Water Resoruces Development, Volume 37, Number 3, pages 367–391.… Read More