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1. Water Resources and Decision-Making Systems

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Kevin Parris

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   Water data and information is 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...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Singapore Water Story

   Sustainable Development in an Urban City-State

   By 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...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Water Quality Policy and Management in Asia

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   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...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America

   Edited by Asit Biswas, Benedito P.F. Braga, Cecilia Tortajada, Marco Palermo

   It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Asian Perspectives on Water Policy

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit Biswas

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   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...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
6. Water Quality Management

   Present Situations, Challenges and Future Perspectives

   Edited by Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Rafael Izquierdo

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   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...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Improving Water Policy and Governance

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit Biswas

   Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes, both governance processes and the scope of the institutions through which power is exercised throughout society may have to undergo a...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Water Management in Megacities

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis, Asit Biswas, Jan Lundqvist

   Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
9. Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa

   Edited by Asit Biswas, Eglal Rached, Cecilia Tortajada

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   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...

   Published April 28th 2008 by Routledge
10. Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership

    Edited by Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

    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...

    Published February 14th 2007 by Routledge