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I work on problems of water rights and water policy at the intersection of law, geography, and political economy. My approach is comparative and interdisciplinary in research, teaching, and outreach. Since the mid 1980s I have focused on issues of water markets, privatization, conflicts, and governance; hydroelectric power, multiple water uses, and river basin development; and the law and political economy of regulation and property rights. In recent years I have turned to the nexus between water and electricity policies, particularly as they affect hydropower, in the current context of climate and environmental change. My regional expertise is in the Western United States and Latin America, especially Chile where I have lived and worked for many years. I work with graduate students and colleagues, both U.S. and foreign, to study water policies in the Americas as well as Spain, the European Union, Australia, and the international arena in general. I am concerned with empirical issues of law and public policy and I aim to bridge the gap between academic and policy audiences. I am regularly interviewed about water policy by journalists, professionals, and students in Latin America, the U.S.A., and Europe.
My overall goal is to combine legal studies with environmental studies: to integrate different fields of law, history, geography, politics, and economics as they relate to water, land, and nature. This interdisciplinary approach to human-environment relations, grounded in history and the physical world, is what geography means to me. I have concentrated on water resources both because they are important in themselves and because water circulates through and ties together all other natural resources and environmental systems, making water a unique window on the world. More generally (beyond water), I am interested in the relationship between market economics, legal and institutional arrangements, and environment, and I focus my analytical framework on property rights because that is the area where all these fields overlap most closely. In recent years I have worked to strengthen the connections between the fields of geography and law-&-society, two interdisciplinary traditions with surprisingly little interaction.Show Less
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Courses
- WESWater, Environment, and Society
- WSWater and Sustainability
- ELGSEnvironmental Law, Geography and Society
Grants
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Indigenous Rights, Government Authority, and Stakeholder Alliances in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$17.4K
- Indigenous Rights, Government Authority, and Stakeholder Alliances in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts: Lessons From Owens Valley, California
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$11.6K
- Hydropower on the Colorado River: Examining Institutions, Conflicts, and Consequences of Changing Dam Operations
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$6.7K
- Innovative Science and Influential Policy Dialogues For Water Security in the Arid Americas
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$744.2K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Comparative Analysis of Arizona and Texas Groundwater Institutions
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$15.6K
- Desalination: A Solution to the World's Water Woes?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$11.2K
- Governing Risk, Reuse, and Reclamation: Water Pollution Control and New Water Resources in the Southwestern United States
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$48.4K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Governing the Environment Privately: Politics, Property, and Markets in Chile's Aquaculture and Forestry Sectors
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$12.0K
- Water, Environment and Urban Development: Us and Eu Case Studies (Partner University Fund)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$27.6K
News
- UA, Partners Launch Water Security Center for the Americas
2012
- UA, French Collaboration Builds Knowledge of Water Issues
2010
Publications (52)
Recent
- Understanding Conditioning Factors for Hydroelectric Development in Chile: Bases for Community Acceptance
2022
- The Protection of Nature and a New Constitution for Chile: Lessons from the Public Trust Doctrine
2021
- The Long View of the Water/Energy Nexus: Hydropower’s First Century in the USA
2020
- The long view of the water/energy nexus: Hydropower's 1st century in the USA
2020
- Trajectory of a divided river basin: law, conflict, and cooperation along Chile's Maipo River
2018
- A tribute to Dan Tarlock from beyond the legal academy
2018
- Water, law, and development in Chile/California cooperation, 1960s-1970s
2017
- Water, Law, and Development in Chile/California Cooperation, 1960–70s
2017
- Governing the transition to renewable energy: A review of impacts and policy issues in the small hydropower boom
2016
- Represas y mercados: Ríos y energía eléctrica en Chile
2016
- Canto de Sirenas: El Derecho de Aguas Chileno como Modelo para Reformas Internacionales, 2nd ed.
2015
- Water conflicts and entrenched governance problems in Chile’s market model
2015
- Tapping water markets - book review
2014
- The experience of water markets and the market model in Chile
2013
- Hydroelectric power generation in Chile: An institutional critique of the neutrality of market mechanisms
2011
- Making environmental law for the market: The emergence, character, and implications of Chile's environmental regime
2011
- Out of the mainstream: water rights, politics and identity - book review
2011
- El abanico de bancos de aguas en las Américas
2010
- Market approaches to water allocation: Lessons from Latin America
2010
- Represas y mercados: Rios y energia electrica en Chile
2010
- Governing Water: Institutions, Property Rights, and Sustainability
2010
- Dams and markets: rivers and electric power in Chile
2009
- Water markets and freshwater ecosystem services
2009
- Water markets and freshwater ecosystem services: Policy reform and implementation in the Columbia and Murray-Darling Basins
2009
- The experience of Chilean water markets
2008
- El abanico de bancos de aguas en las Americas
2007
- In the image of the market: The Chilean model of water resources management
2005
- Freshwater ecosystem services
2005
- Siren song: Chilean water law as a model for international reform
2004
- Canto de sirenas: El derecho de aguas chileno como modelo para reformas internacionales
2004
- Results of Chilean water markets: Empirical research since 1990
2004
- Vendiendo agua, vendiendo reformas: Lecciones de la experiencia Chilena
2004
- Vendiendo agua, vendiendo reformas. Lecciones de la experiencia chilena
2003
- Activos líquidos: derechos de aguas, mercados de aguas y consecuencias para los mercados de tierras rurales
2003
- Contra la Corriente. Privatización, mercados de agua y el Estado en Chile. Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile
2003
- Marketing Water, Marketing Reform: Lessons from the Chilean Experience
2003
- Contra la corriente: privatización, mercados de agua y el Estado en Chile
2002
- Derecho De Aguas
2000
- Derechos de agua, hidroenergía y la gestión ecológica de aguas: el caso del oeste norteamerciano
2000
- Long-Term Stewardship of Contaminated Sites: Trust Funds as Mechanisms for Financing and Oversight
2000
- Derecho y economía en la Constitución de 1980
1998
- Slippery property rights: Multiple water uses and the neoliberal model in Chile, 1981-1995
1998
- Law and Economics in the 1980 Constitution
1998
- Against the current: privatization, water markets, and the state in Chile
1998
- Bringing water markets down to earth: the political economy of water rights in Chile, 1976–1995
1997
- Privatización y capacidades institucionales: Los resultados del mercado de aguas en Chile
1996
- El mercado de aguas en California
1996
- Against the current? Privatization, markets, and the state in water rights: Chile, 1979-1993
1995
- Los derechos de agua y el mercado: efectos e implicancias del Código de Aguas chileno de 1981
1993
- Régimen jurídico del agua: la experiencia de Estados Unidos
1993
- Water, property rights, and the State: the United States experience
1993
- Labor without brains: water development, law and policy in Washington State, 1890-1935
1988
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