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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
The global landscape of international development is undergoing a rapid transition, with emerging actors playing a significant role in meeting the ...
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
There is no room for squeamishness in the face of the world’s growing water shortage — three steps could vastly improve the image of reused water for drinking. ...
Social Drinking Water Security Drinking Water Treatment Industrial Water Reuse Reuse Drinking Water Managment
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Cecilia Tortajada and Theodore Lai POLICY FORUM | March 18, 2020 Climate change, natural resource pollution, and scarcity of various forms have become part of ...
Water Security Environment Climate Change environmental management
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
The natural complexity, heterogeneity, and extent of transboundary aquifers around the world, have led to controversy over which method or criteria should be ...
Geology Hydrography Aquifer Transboundary Water Resources Management Aquifer Treatment
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
COVID-19 and its unintended environmental impacts have been discussed at length. While there have been immediate gains, such as lower greenhouse emissions and ...
Compliance Sustainability Environment Stock Exchange Dispensing Systems
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Abstract Water resources are essential for every development activity, not only in terms of available quantity but also in terms of quality. Population growth ...
Wastewater Treatment Sanitation Pollution Economic development water treatment
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
This report uses strategic foresight to study applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The ...
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Megatrends are reshaping the world as we know it. Urbanisation, demographic and social change, resource scarcity and pollution, climate change, mass migration, ...
Climate Change Urban Water Business Intelligence Software
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
COVID-19 will unquestionably delay achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the latest global attempt to improve the quality of life of ...
Academic Covid-19
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Intelligent ways to use green areas, such as parks, pathways, and empty lots are the key to urban renewal, and one city in Mexico is sowing the seeds of ...
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
As part of the circular economy, there is increasing interest internationally in water reuse, reclaimed water or recycled wastewater. This interest responds to ...
Water Reuse & Recycling Portable Technology Industrial Water Reuse
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
With rising energy demand in Asia, the high potential for hydropower development and the need for low-carbon energy development, hydropower would seem to have ...
Energy Hydropower Energy
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Namibia is the most arid country in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Windhoek, the capital city, accelerated population growth and expanding economic activities, coupled ...
Drought Climate Change Institutional Capacity Water Demand Management and Loss Control
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Jorie Malsch and Cecilia Tortajada POLICY FORUM | June 16, 2021 Plastic food packaging and food waste are piling up across the globe and causing environmental ...
Wastewater Collection Waste Disposal Waste Management Environmental Environment Protection and Pollution control China Plastic Pollution environmental management
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
By Cecilia Tortajada UNRAVEL | April 27, 2021 Governments in Asia need to focus on long-term planning that informs policies, decision-making and allocation ...
Urban Drainage Wastewater Collection Water Supply Infrastructure Economic development Infrastructure Covid-19
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Laudato Si has garnered acclaim from world leaders and actors who support care for the environment. The encyclical has received praise for its ability to ...
Pollution Poverty Reduction Sustainable Building
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
This introductory article discusses the proliferation of different forms of participation in water governance. It is argued that creating public value through ...
Water Governance
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by Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada PROJECT SYNDICATE | December 9, 2019 China’s CSR landscape has changed almost as much as its urban skylines over the ...
Environment Evaluation Government China environmental management
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by Asit Biswas, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada Some 15 years ago, China tried to improve its water management policies to reduce impacts of devastating floods, ...
Case Studies Technology Water Resources Wetlands China Rainwater Harvesting
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by Asit Biswas, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow
Tragic though they may be, Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdowns offer a glimpse into an alternative future in which air is safe to breathe. How India and China, ...
Environmental Health Pollution Economic development China Industrial Pollution