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  • GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES
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    GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES
    CECILIA TORTAJADA
    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 issu...

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  • URBAN RESILIENCE TO DROUGHTS AND FLOODS
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    URBAN RESILIENCE TO DROUGHTS AND FLOODS
    CECILIA TORTAJADA / JAMES HORNE / LARRY W. HARRINGTON
    This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario devel...

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  • INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
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    INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
    CECILIA TORTAJADA
    The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the implementation status of the IWRM concept at local, basin, regional and national l...

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  • WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
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    WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
    CECILIA TORTAJADA
    Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions, policies and regulation, it provides basic services to growing populations, especially in developing countries, where much of the growth is taking place. In the Asia-Pacific region, for instance, populations are growing not only in size but also in affluence, straining further the exis...

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  • WATER RESOURCES AND DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
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    WATER RESOURCES AND DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
    CECILIA TORTAJADA
    Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources. The linkages between Water Information Systems and needs of decision makers are complex, but can be encapsulated in a Driving Force (Policy Needs) – Monitoring – Data Management – Reporting framework. The rapid development in water policy reforms in ...

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  • WATER QUALITY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT IN ASIA
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    WATER QUALITY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT IN ASIA
    CECILIA TORTAJADA
    Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.757 billion urban population and 2.4 billion people in rural areas (or approximately 60 per cent of the global population). Divided into central, eastern, southern, south-eastern and western regions, the continent is also extremely heterogeneous in terms of water quality conditions. The policies and management practices vary significantly...

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  • WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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    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...

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  • WATER PRICING AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
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    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...

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  • ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON WATER POLICY
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    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...

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  • THE SINGAPORE WATER STORY
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    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...

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