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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.



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 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. 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.

Citation Information vii
Notes on Contributors xi
Foreword 1(3)
Masagos Zulkifli
Introduction: Festschrift 4(3)
Cecilia Tortajada
Eduardo Ararat
1 A decade of work on water governance at the OECD: what have we learnt?
7(6)
Angel Gurria
2 The knowledge economy in the twenty-first century: a modest proposal
13(4)
Annie Callanan
3 Scotland: a world-leading Hydro Nation
17(6)
Anton Muscatelli
Erin McKee
Sean McGivern
4 Nestle's corporate water strategy over time: a backward- and forward-looking view
23(13)
Paul Bulcke
Samuel Vionnet
Christian Vousvouras
Ghislaine Weder
5 Scarcity of water or scarcity of management?
36(11)
David Molden
6 Singapore's water challenges past to present
47(9)
Peter Joo Hee Ng
Celine Teo
7 Facing the challenge of extreme climate: the case of Metropolitan Sao Paulo
56(14)
Benedito P.F. Braga
J. Kelman
8 China's achievements of water governance over the past seven decades
70(19)
Shaofeng Jia
Wenbin Zhu
9 Some reflections on water for residential uses in developed countries
89(14)
Francisco Gonzalez-Gomez
Miguel A. Garda-Rubio
Jorge Guardiola
10 Can water professionals do more?
103(13)
Michael Rouse
11 Reflections on flood control in Japan and recommendations for developing countries
116(13)
Yutaka Takahasi
Kimio Takeya
Miki Inaoka
Wataru Ono
Kaoru Sasaoka
12 A retrospective analysis of Laos's Nam Theun 2 Dam
129(20)
Thayer Scudder
13 What I learned from Asit Biswas about transboundary water, ethics, mentoring and, in general, how to be a better human being
149(6)
Aaron T. Wolf
14 Water resilience and human life support - global outlook for the next half century
155(20)
Malin Falkenmark
15 Adaptive and sustainable water management: from improved conceptual foundations to transformative change
175(19)
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
16 Economically challenged and water scarce: identification of global populations most vulnerable to water crises
194(13)
Taikan Oki
Rose E. Quiocho
17 The status of the UN Watercourses Convention: does it still hold water?
207(33)
Gabriel Eckstein
18 Australian water decision making: are politicians performing?
240(22)
James Home
19 Rent-seeking behaviour and regulatory capture in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
262(21)
R. Quentin Grafton
John Williams
20 Quenching the thirst of rapidly growing and water-insecure cities in sub-Saharan Africa
283(23)
Madiodio Niasse
Olli Varis
21 Sustainability of water and energy use for food production based on optimal allocation of agricultural irrigation water
306(19)
Mo Li
Vijay P. Singh
22 Rethinking on the methodology for assessing global water and food challenges
325(18)
M. Dinesh Kumar
Nitin Bassi
O. P. Singh
Index 343
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.