Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: biswas asit k

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  • SUSTAINABILITY IN COFFEE PRODUCTION
    ANDREA BISWAS-TORTAJADA / ASIT K. BISWAS
    Coffee, as a commodity and through its global value chains, is the focus of much interest to achieve fair trade and equitable outcomes for producers, processors and consumers. It has iconic cultural and economic significance for Colombia, which is one of the world's major coffee producers for the global market. This book examines sustainable coffee production in Colombia, speci...

    $1,239.00

  • WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
    BISWAS, ASIT K. / TORTAJADA, CECILIA / IZQUIERDO, RAFAEL
    The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress in reducing non-point sources has not been made. In the third world countries bo...

    $779.00

  • WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
    ASIT K. BISWAS
    Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than two billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed that water should be considered to be a human right. This position, how...

    $1,179.00

  • WATER PRICING AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
    BISWAS, ASIT K. / TORTAJADA, CECILIA
    There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and under what circumstances, this informative coll...

    $1,179.00

  • ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON WATER POLICY
    TORTAJADA, CECILIA / BISWAS, ASIT K.
    Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal frameworks varying from one country to another. Therefore, how water can be successfully managed differs from one country to another. The book provides authoritative analyses of how water is being managed in different Asian co...

    $1,099.00

  • MANAGING TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS OF LATIN AMERICA
    ASIT K. BISWAS
    Definitive analyses of transboundary water management in Latin America are conspicuous by their absence. The situation is a little better for rivers compared to groundwater resources. Transboundary water management in Latin America has been evolving in a somewhat different manner compared to other continents. The book includes eight authoritative case studies of Latin American ...

    $739.00

  • THE SINGAPORE WATER STORY
    CECILIA TORTAJADA / YUGAL KISHORE JOSHI / ASIT K. BISWAS
    Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for sustainable development. This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the...

    $1,099.00

  • INTEGRATED RURAL ENERGY PLANNING
    ELMAHGARY, YEHIA / BISWAS, ASIT K.
    Integrated Rural Energy Planning ...

    $928.00