Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann, hon. attorney at law, completed a Ph D in Theology at the Theological Faculty of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015. She holds a Master»s of Comparative Jurisprudence (MCJ) from New York University. She served as a deputy judge on a commission of the Administrative Court of Geneva (CRUNI) and taught Swiss and international public law at the College de Geneve. She has served as a member of the board of a Swiss international relief organization (EPER/HEKS).
45 Ebooks de Asit K. Biswas
Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann: The Human Right to Water: Justice . . . or Sham?
Water is a matter of life and death. Advanced technology and engineering enable humans to gain better access to it. Nonetheless, the conditions and effort required to reach this goal remain colossal …
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Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Creating Shared Value
Nestlé’s Moga factory was set up in 1961 and comprises of the primary milk collection area for Nestlé‘s operations. Since its inception in Moga, Nestlé has been working with its milk farmers and anci …
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Chennat Gopalakrishnan & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Institutions: Policies, Performance and Prospects
It is being increasingly realised that water is likely to be one of the most critical resource issues for the first half of the twenty-first century. Accelerating demand for water for various uses an …
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Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Quality Management in the Americas
Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades. While the mag- tude and the extent of the global wat …
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€96.29
Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector
Since the late 1990s, megaconferences in the water-related sectors have become regular occurrences. The latest one, in Mexico City, in March 2006, is estimated to have cost a total of $205 million, a …
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€96.29
Olli Varis & Cecilia Tortajada: Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes
Water’s role in the nature is very fundamental. As it circulates in the atmosphere, in the rivers, lakes, soil, rock, and in the oceans, it is the major conveyer of va- ous chemical substances and of …
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€149.79
Claudia Ringler & Asit K. Biswas: Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security
In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the pote …
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€96.29
Cecilia Tortajada & Dogan Altinbilek: Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment
One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water de …
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€106.99
Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Assessing Global Water Megatrends
This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades. In this first ever …
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€85.59
Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Security, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing on the perspective of water. Climate ch …
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€88.80
Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership
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 t …
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Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership
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 t …
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€56.49
Asit K. Biswas & Yugal Kishore Joshi: Singapore Water Story
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 poli …
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Asit K. Biswas & Yugal Kishore Joshi: Singapore Water Story
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 poli …
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€53.85
Asit Biswas: Managing Transboundary Waters of Latin America
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 w …
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Asit Biswas: Managing Transboundary Waters of Latin America
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 w …
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Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Asian Perspectives on Water Policy
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 anothe …
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Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Asian Perspectives on Water Policy
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 anothe …
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€54.08
Asit K. Biswas & Andrea Biswas-Tortajada: Sustainability in Coffee Production
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 …
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€58.63
Asit K. Biswas & Andrea Biswas-Tortajada: Sustainability in Coffee Production
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 …
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€59.05
Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Management and Climate Change
To plan successfully and manage the increased uncertainties posed by likely future climate change, knowledge needs to advance much more for the water profession beyond what it is now available. Meeti …
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Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Management and Climate Change
To plan successfully and manage the increased uncertainties posed by likely future climate change, knowledge needs to advance much more for the water profession beyond what it is now available. Meeti …
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€36.06
Asit Biswas & Miguel A. Garcia-Rubio: Private Sector and Water Pricing in Efficient Urban Water Management
This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing. It discusses in-depth topics such as public choices of urban water ser …
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€59.42
Asit Biswas & Miguel A. Garcia-Rubio: Private Sector and Water Pricing in Efficient Urban Water Management
This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing. It discusses in-depth topics such as public choices of urban water ser …
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€59.19
Asit Biswas & Rafael Izquierdo: Water Quality Management
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 h …
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€37.12
Asit Biswas & Rafael Izquierdo: Water Quality Management
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 h …
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Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Improving Water Policy and Governance
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 sco …
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€56.55
Asit Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Improving Water Policy and Governance
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 sco …
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€56.09
Asit Biswas & Benedito P.F. Braga: Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America
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 internation …
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€28.41
Asit Biswas & Benedito P.F. Braga: Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America
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 internation …
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€28.14
Asit Biswas & Jan Lundqvist: Water Management in Megacities
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 m …
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€25.67
Asit Biswas & Jan Lundqvist: Water Management in Megacities
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 m …
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€25.77
Asit Biswas & Eglal Rached: Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
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 d …
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€56.37
Asit Biswas & Eglal Rached: Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
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 d …
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€56.32
S. B. C. Agarwal & Asit K. Biswas: Environmental Impact Assessment for Developing Countries
Environmental Impact Assessment for Developing Countries is based on selected papers presented at the 1991 International Conference on Environment Impact Assessment, held at New Delhi, India. This wo …
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€56.70
Milos Holy: Erosion and Environment
Erosion and Environment focuses on the disturbance of the natural soil cover that exposes the soil surface to the action of erosion agents such as the destructive effects of water and wind. The topic …
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Asit K. Biswas: Ozone Layer
The Ozone Layer contains the proceedings of the Meeting of Experts on the Ozone Layer, organized by the United Nations Environment Programme and held in Washington, DC, on March 1-9, 1977. The papers …
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Asit K. Biswas & Yehia Elmahgary: Integrated Rural Energy Planning
Integrated Rural Energy Planning presents a series of case studies and guidelines for developing integrated rural energy centers, particularly in the Third World. This text highlights technical coope …
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€56.47
Asit K. Biswas & Mostafa Kamal Tolba: Earth and Us
Earth and Us: Population, Resources, Environment, Development is a compilation of ideas and thoughts of leading international statesmen, political leaders, economists and environmentalists, on the co …
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€25.66
Alden D. Hinckley: Renewable Resources in Our Future
Renewable Resources in Our Future is a collection of illustrated papers that discusses various renewable energy sources. The opening chapter discusses the concepts involved in relying solely on renew …
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Asit K. Biswas: Water Resources of North America
Leonardo da Vinci, the eminent Renaissance scholar and philosopher said, "water is the driver of nature". Many may have considered it to be an overstatement in the past, but at the beginnin …
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€166.27
Asit K. Biswas & Pawan K. Sachdeva: Phnom Penh Water Story
This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of th …
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€69.54
Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada: Water Security Under Climate Change
This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent …
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€85.59
Pawan K. Sachdeva & Asit K. Biswas: Off-Grid Water Supply
This book highlights unique and deeper insights into the operations of off-grid water supply business models and the policy implications that they raise. The two key research questions of the report …
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€32.09
