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Overview

Asit K. Biswas is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine and Social Sciences. The main fields of study associated with their work include Medicine (24 publications) and Social Sciences (22 publications), with subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research interests concentrate on topics related to water management and public health, highlighted by work in areas such as Water Resources Management and Optimization, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Transboundary Water Resource Management, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Cambodian History and Society, and Malaria Research and Control.

Key recent publications by Asit K. Biswas include:

  • Water woes: the institutional challenges in achieving SDG 6, 2023, Sustainable Earth Reviews
  • COVID-19 heightens water problems around the world, 2020, Water International
  • Health care seeking behaviour and financial protection of patients with hypertension: A cross-sectional study in rural West Bengal, India, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Rethinking responses to the world's water crises, 2024, Nature Sustainability
  • Water management in post-2020 world, 2020, International Journal of Water Resources Development

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Asit K. Biswas include Cecilia Tortajada, Pawan K. Sachdeva, Ojasvee Arora, Ardhendu Kumar Maji, and Pabitra Saha.

The scientist's publications are often found in specific venues, most notably:

  • International Journal of Water Resources Development (11 publications)
  • River (5 publications)
  • Indian Journal of Public Health (3 publications)
  • Water International (2 publications)
  • Sustainable Earth Reviews (1 publication)

Asit K. Biswas has contributed to book publications through Springer Nature and Springer International Publishing. Notable titles include "Phnom Penh Water Story" published in 2020 with 13 citations, and "Off-Grid Water Supply" from 2023.

Best Publications

  • Integrated Water Resources Management: A Reassessment

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Integrated Water Resources Management: Is It Working?

    Asit K. Biswas

  • History of Hydrology

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Future Water Governance: Problems and Perspectives

    Asit K. Biswas;Cecilia Tortajada

  • Systems approach to water management

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Water Management in Islam

    Naser I. Faruqui;Asit K. Biswas;Murad J. Bino.

  • Megacities and Water Management

    Olli Varis;Asit K. Biswas;Cecilia Tortajada;Jan Lundqvist

  • Indus water treaty: the negotiating process

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Development and Large Dams: A Global Perspective

    Asit K. Biswas;Cecilia Tortajada

  • Cooperation or conflict in transboundary water management: case study of South Asia

    Asit K. Biswas;Kuan Yew

  • International waters of the Middle East : from Euphrates-Tigris to Nile

    Asit K. Biswas;笹川平和財団

  • The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-state

    Cecilia Tortajada;Yugal Kishore Joshi;Asit K. Biswas

  • Water Management for Major Urban Centres

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Water Policies in the Developing World

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Clinical outcomes of staff training in positive behaviour support to reduce challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability: cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Angela Hassiotis;Michaela Poppe;Andre Strydom;Victoria Vickerstaff

  • From Mar del Plata to Kyoto: an analysis of global water policy dialogue

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Environmental Impact Assessment for Developing Countries

    Asit K. Biswas;S.B.C. Agarwala

  • Impacts of Large Dams: a Global Assessment

    Cecilia Tortajada;Dogan Altinbilek;Asit K. Biswas

  • Management of International Waters: Opportunities and Constraints

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Water Resources: Environmental Planning, Management and Development

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Achieving universal access to clean water and sanitation in an era of water scarcity: strengthening contributions from academia

    Cecilia Tortajada;Asit K Biswas

  • History of Hydrology

    Albert V. Carozzi;Asit K. Biswas

Frequent Co-Authors

Olli Varis
Olli Varis Aalto University
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Aaron T. Wolf
Aaron T. Wolf Oregon State University
Janet G. Hering
Janet G. Hering Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
David L. Sedlak
David L. Sedlak University of California, Berkeley
Michael E. Schlesinger
Michael E. Schlesinger University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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