This paper investigates the challenges faced by developing countries in relation to urban water supply and explores the issues in details with reference to four selected Asian countries: India, Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

Population and economic growth are increasing the demand for water, while climate change, pollution and over extraction of groundwater are decreasing the world’s supply of fresh water. While technological and management reforms can increase supply, sustainable development calls for water conservation.

The International Conference on Asian Food Security (ICAFS) took place on 10–12 August 2011 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel in Singapore. ICAFS 2011, themed ‘Feeding Asia in the 21st Century: Building Urban-Rural Alliances’, was convened in the context of complex and multifaceted challenges throughout food systems in Asia.

Women are a social group vulnerable to food insecurity despite being primary actors in the food chain. The problem of food insecurity among women is especially rampant in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The recent verdict on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984 has drawn attention to India

The climate change summit began in Copenhagen on 7 December 2009. The climate in which it began was somewhat better than most analysts and observers had believed would be the case. There was greater optimism as the opening ceremony was held.

There are substantial disparities across India

India's Special Economic Zones (SEZ) have been shrouded by controversies. In this recent paper the Institute of South Asian Studies examines some of the challenges to public policy and governance produced by the SEZ.

This paper provides information on the sub-national areas (regions/districts/provinces) most vulnerable to climate change impacts in Southeast Asia. This assessment was carried out by overlaying climate hazard maps, sensitivity maps, and adaptive capacity maps following the vulnerability assessment framework of

The Manmohan Singh Doctrine is a manifestation of India

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