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, World Scientific, Singapore, pages 117–138.… Read More
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
Cecilia Tortajada and Vinna Yip, Chapter of the book: Insight into Asian Water, edited by K-water, 2015, pages 26-41.… Read More
Asit K. Biswas, Chapter of the book: Water and Sanitation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, edited by P. G. Bourne, 1984, Elsevier, The Netherlands, pages 115-134.… Read More
September 10, 2018 Exponential increase in land area used for oil palm cultivation in Indonesia has been possible primarily through the clearance of primary and secondary forests and other vegetative growths. As the population of Indonesia has increased, there has … Read More
May 1, 2018 Since the very dawn of history, water has always been noted as one of the fundamental requirements for human and ecosystems survival. Many early civilisations developed near major rivers like the Nile, Tigris-Euphrates, Indus and Yellow River. … Read More
February 4, 2018 For decades, the main goal of Singapore in terms of water resources has been to become water-secure. As a result, water availability, accessibility, and affordability have traditionally been decided at the highest political level. Singapore’s overall development … Read More
February 4, 2018 Water resources are, and have always been, a multidimensional resource that crosses all social and economic sectors. Globally, growing population and urbanisation have increased the pressure to meet the water, energy, and food demands of larger populations … Read More
January 23, 2018 Currently some 2.5–3.0 billion people do not have access to clean water. To ensure all these people and an additional 2.3 billion people expected by 2050 have access to adequate quantity and quality of water for all … 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