December 20, 2019 The book’s title notes three important issues: interactive governance, water governance, and Asia. Let us consider only interactive governance, a little-known term in water management. The editor defines it as “an interactive form of governance generally and … Read More
Creating Shared Value: Impacts of Nestlé in Moga, IndiaAsit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Andrea Biswas‐Tortajada, Yugal K. Joshi, with Aishvarya GuptaSpringer, Berlin, 2015, 115 pages With 92 billion Swiss Francs in sales in 2013, Nestlé is one of the largest consumer products … Read More
The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-StateCecilia Tortajada, Yugal Kishore Joshi and Asit K. BiswasRoutledge, London, 2013, 286 pages When Singapore became independent from Malaysia in 1965, water presented a curious paradox. On the global water index, … Read More
Creating Shared Value: Impacts of Nestlé in MogaAsit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Andrea Biswas-Tortajada, Yugal K. Joshi, with Aishvarya GuptaSpringer, Berlin, 2013, 115 pages The book ‘Creating Shared Value: Impacts of Nestle at Moga, India’ based on a study by … Read More
The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-StateCecilia Tortajada, Yugal Kishore Joshi, Asit K. BiswasRoutledge, London, 2013, 288 pages When Singapore, smaller than New York City, broke away from Malaysia in 1965, its single biggest strategic vulnerability was … Read More
Sahana Singh Asian Water | June 2013 While Singapore was moving towards its goals of becoming a developed economy and one of the world’s cleanest cities, its leaders knew that water would play an important part in it. Dependence on … Read More
The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-StateCecilia Tortajada, Yugal Joshi and Asit K. BiswasRoutledge, London, 2013, 288 pages The development of Singapore-based water and sewage operations and technology companies has been driven by a policy of combining … Read More
Review by Michael Rouse The Business Times | March 20, 2013 It is highly appropriate that the Singapore Water Story is being published on March 22, World Water Day. Many countries aspire to emulate Singapore’s achievements. Singapore can be considered … Read More
Impacts of Large Dams: A Global AssessmentCecilia Tortajada, Dogan Altinbilek and Asit K. BiswasSpringer, Berlin, 2012, 407 pages The clue to the contents of this book is in the title. The book contains a collection of objective case studies on the … Read More
Water Management in 2020 and BeyondAsit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and Rafael IzquierdoSpringer, Berlin, 2009, 268 pages A forward-looking book on water is the need of the hour for more than one reason. First and foremost, generation after generation grew up … Read More