Volume 36, Issues 2-3
March-May 2020
Special Issue on Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas… Read More
The Dark Side of Governance. An Introduction to the Special Issue
By Kai Wegerich, Jeroen Warner and Cecilia Tortajada, 2014. Article published in International Journal of Water Governance, Volume 2, Issues 2/3, pages 1-6.… Read More
Assessing business and sustainability in China
January 23, 2020
Interests of Chinese companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are of comparatively recent origin. Because of this, many major Chinese companies started considering seriously their ESG issues. … Read More
Social responsibility is business of business
January 4, 2020
The introduction of the Company Law in 2006 prompted Chinese companies to pay greater attention to corporate social responsibility, especially when it is related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
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Drink More Recycled Wastewater
By Cecilia Tortajada and Pierre van Rensburg, 2020. Article published in Nature, Volume 577, pages 26-28.… Read More
Judging ideas in a changing world: Measuring the social impact of research
December 20, 2019
With the number of academic journals growing endlessly and quality control failing, a new measure for whether research is ‘valuable’ is needed. Unfortunately, a change seems far from certain… Read More
Interactive Approaches to Water Governance in Asia
Edited by Kenji Otsuka, Springer, Singapore, 2019, 225 pages.… Read More
The Evolution of Chinese Corporate Social Responsibility
December 9, 2019
China’s CSR landscape has changed almost as much as its urban skylines over the last decade, but the next ten years should bring even faster progress. China’s people and their leaders are no longer willing to allow companies to ignore their operations’ impact on human and environmental welfare.… Read More
Grow first, develop later? The pitfalls of measuring economic growth using GDP
November 29, 2019
GDP is an imperfect metric. But it continues to be used as a benchmark for national performance and policymaking in an era of social, economic, and environmental disruption.… Read More