This is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Asit K. Biswas, for his manifold contributions to water resources policy and management and his extensive efforts over six decades to generate, synthetize, apply, and disseminate knowledge at national and global levels.
Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas
includes invited contributions on global water issues from 23 globally renowned leaders in the public and private sectors, as well as academia, who have made significant contributions to the field of water resources policy, management, development and governance. The vision and expertise of this distinguished group of experts provides a unique focus on unfolding water issues and their bearing on world development
This book will be of great value to scholars, students, and policymakers interested in water resource governance, sustainable development, and climate change.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
This book includes invited contributions on global water issues from 23 globally renown leaders in the public and private sectors as well as the academia who have made significant contributions to the field of water resources policy, management, development and governance.
1. A decade of work on water governance at the OECD: what have we
learnt?
2. The knowledge economy in the twenty-first century: a modest
proposal
3. Scotland: a world-leading Hydro Nation
4. Nestlés corporate
water strategy over time: a backward- and forward-looking view
5. Scarcity of
water or scarcity of management?
6. Singapores water challenges past to
present
7. Facing the challenge of extreme climate: the case of Metropolitan
Sao Paulo
8. Chinas achievements of water governance over the past seven
decades
9. Some reflections on water for residential uses in developed
countries
10. Can water professionals do more?
11. Reflections on flood
control in Japan and recommendations for developing countries
12. A
retrospective analysis of Laoss Nam Theun 2 Dam
13. What I learned from Asit
Biswas about transboundary water, ethics, mentoring and, in general, how to
be a better human being
14. Water resilience and human life support - global
outlook for the next half century
15. Adaptive and sustainable water
management: from improved conceptual foundations to transformative change
16.
Economically challenged and water scarce: identification of global
populations most vulnerable to water crises
17. The status of the UN
Watercourses Convention: does it still hold water?
18. Australian water
decision making: are politicians performing?
19. Rent-seeking behaviour and
regulatory capture in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
20. Quenching the
thirst of rapidly growing and water-insecure cities in sub-Saharan Africa
21.
Sustainability of water and energy use for food production based on optimal
allocation of agricultural irrigation water
22. Rethinking on the methodology
for assessing global water and food challenges
Cecilia Tortajada is Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. She has been an advisor to major international institutions like FAO, UNDP, JICA, ADB, OECD, IDRC and GIZ, and has worked in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe on water and natural resources management and environment policies. She is a member of the OECD Initiative on Water Governance and recipient of the prestigious Crystal Drop Award of the International Water Resources Association.
Eduardo Araral is Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is the Co-Director of the Institute of Water Policy, Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Water Forum and Associate Editor of the Oxford University Press book series on water governance.
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