A way through the dark: Pakistan’s clean energy development opportunity
August 30, 2016
Pakistan’s long-suffering energy crisis is driving out major companies, impeding economic prosperity and threatening the vitality of the country’s major textile industry… Read More
Asit K. Biswas: A Story of the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
August 24, 2006
For his outstanding and multi-faceted contributions to global water resource issues, including research, education and awareness, water management, human and international relations in both developed and developing countries, Prof Biswas has been awarded with the the Stockholm Water Prize, 2006.… Read More
A scholarly superpower
August 23, 2016
China has the resources and determination to become the world’s academic leader.… Read More
Indonesian haze: A way ahead
August 18, 2016
Indonesia’s neighbors need to rethink their approach.… Read More
Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation
Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, 2016, Springer, Singapore, 286 pages.… Read More
Water, Governance, and Infrastructure for Enhancing Climate Resilience
By Cecilia Tortajada, Chapter of the book: Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation, edited by Cecilia Tortajada, 2016, Springer, Singapore, pages 1-13.… Read More
Policy Dimensions of Development and Financing of Water Infrastructure: The Cases of China and India
By Cecilia Tortajada, 2016. Article published in Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 64, pages 177-187.… Read More
Counting the costs of floods in China
July 21, 2016
Mitigating the effects of nature’s destructive force.… Read More
Systemic approach can help reduce flood damage
July 19, 2016
Floods have been a perennial problem in China, although the death toll in floods in the country has steadily declined due to construction of dams, dikes and levees, and installing of early warning systems. Still, economic costs of floods have been increasing.… Read More