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Robert G. Varady is research professor of environmental policy and immediate past director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He also is adjunct research professor of arid lands studies in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and adjunct professor in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences.

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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2023

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2022

    $399.5K
    Active
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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2022

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2021

    $303.5K
    Active
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    Contributions of Green Infrastructure to Urban Resilience: Case Studies and Challenges from Around the World

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $13.0K
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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2016

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $267.2K
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    Innovative Science and Influential Policy Dialogues For Water Security in the Arid Americas

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2014

    $744.2K
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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2015

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $267.2K
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    Funding the Lloyd's Register Foundation International Water Security Network

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $1.0M
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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2014

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2013

    $285.5K
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    Information Flows and Policy: Towards an Integrated Assessment of Water Security Under Global Change in the Americas

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2012

    $304.0K
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    Udall Foundation Workplan 2013

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2012

    $285.5K
News
  • UA Researchers Take a Closer Look at the Future of Desalination

    2016

  • UA Doctoral Student Bound for Nepal This Week

    2015

  • UA Water Experts Speak at United Nations Event

    2013

  • New Book Explores Water Management Solutions Across International Borders

    2013

  • Team Identifies Water Vulnerability in Border Region

    2012

  • UA, Partners Launch Water Security Center for the Americas

    2012

  • UA, French Collaboration Builds Knowledge of Water Issues

    2010

  • New Book Examines U.S.-Mexico Border Conservation Challenges

    2010

  • Lifelong Steward of the Earth Dies

    2010

  • Agreement Connects UA, French Researchers

    2008

  • French, UA Scientists Inaugurate Center

    2008

  • UA Involved in 9 of 12 Projects Awarded Funding by Water Institute

    2007

  • Border Blog Celebrates First Decade

    2005

  • Robert G. Varady Appointment

    2004

  • Management of Colorado Delta To Be Scrutinized at California Conference

    2000

Publications (156)
Recent
  • Transboundary Water Governance Scholarship: A Critical Review

    2023

  • Water Management on the US-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation

    2023

  • Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section

    2022

  • Global Water Initiatives Redux: A Fresh Look at the World of Water

    2022

  • Science and Binational Cooperation: Bidirectionality in the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program in the Arizona-Sonora Border Region

    2021

  • Ruminations and insights on hydrodiplomacy

    2021

  • Dialogic science-policy networks for water security governance in the arid Americas

    2021

  • Do ecosystem insecurity and social vulnerability lead to failure of water security?

    2021

  • The water security discourse and its main actors

    2021

  • 8 Conclusions and

    2021

  • The exigencies of transboundary water security: insights on community resilience

    2020

  • Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the US-Mexico border: 75 years of tradition and innovation in transboundary water management

    2020

  • US Hydrodiplomacy: Foundations, Change, and Future Challenges

    2019

  • Water security: A review of place-based research

    2018

  • Critical issues affecting groundwater quality governance and management in the United States

    2018

  • Unraveling transboundary water security in the arid Americas

    2018

  • Water security and the pursuit of food, energy, and earth systems resilience

    2018

  • Innovative approaches to collaborative groundwater governance in the United States: Case studies from three high-growth regions in the Sun Belt

    2017

  • Governing a shared hidden resource: A review of governance mechanisms for transboundary groundwater security

    2017

  • Addressing the groundwater governance challenge

    2017

  • Anticipatory capacity in response to global change across an extreme elevation gradient in the Ica Basin, Peru

    2017

  • Groundwater governance in the United States: a mosaic of approaches

    2017

  • Water Security

    2017

  • Transboundary considerations in governance of water in the face of changing climate

    2017

  • Adaptive management and water security in a global context: definitions, concepts, and examples

    2016

  • Desalination and water security in the US–Mexico border region: assessing the social, environmental and political impacts

    2016

  • Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems: learnings from Nepal

    2016

  • Metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security: common challenges, diverging contexts, emerging consensus

    2016

  • Advancing metrics: models for understanding adaptive capacity and water security

    2016

  • Modes and approaches of groundwater governance: A survey of lessons learned from selected cases across the globe

    2016

  • Scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders plan for climate change: A promising approach in Chile's Maipo Basin

    2016

  • Summary and synthesis: The potential of metrics for assessing adaptive capacity and water security

    2016

  • The Santa Cruz river: four millennia of water heritage and security in the US-Mexico border region

    2015

  • Transboundary groundwater governance in the Guarani Aquifer System: Reflections from a survey of global and regional experts

    2015

  • Groundwater governance in the United States: Common priorities and challenges

    2015

  • Estudios sobre Sonora 2011: Instituciones, procesos socioespaciales, simbólica e imaginario

    2013

  • Revisiting water politics and policy in Israel: policymaking under conditions of uncertainty

    2013

  • Rethinking integrated assessments and management projects in the Americas.

    2013

  • Water security and adaptive management in the arid Americas

    2013

  • Key Issues, Institutions, and Strategies for Managing Transboundary Water Resources in the Arizona–Mexico Border Region

    2013

  • Groundwater Governance in the US

    2013

  • Transboundary adaptive management to reduce climate-change vulnerability in the western US–Mexico border region

    2013

  • Climate change and US-Mexico border communities

    2013

  • Desalination Technology in a Binational Context: Systemic Implications for Water, Society, Energy, and Environment in the Arizona-Sonora portion of the US-Mexico Border

    2012

  • Moving Forward from Vulnerability to Adaptation

    2012

  • Science-policy dialogues for water security: addressing vulnerability and adaptation to global change in the arid Americas

    2012

  • Shared borders, shared waters: Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin water challenges

    2012

  • Key issues, institutions, and strategies for managing

    2012

  • GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE: A Global Framework for Country Action GEF ID 3726

    2012

  • Urban water vulnerability and institutional challenges in Ambos Nogales

    2012

  • Jacques Ganoulis, Alice Aureli and Jean Fried (eds), Transboundary water resources management: a multidisciplinary approach Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH …

    2012

  • The role of creative language in addressing political realities: Middle-Eastern water agreements

    2012

  • Science-policy dialogues for water security

    2012

  • Groundwater policy and governance

    2012

  • Hydrosolidarity and beyond: can ethics and equity find a place in today's water resource management?

    2011

  • Transboundary Aquifer Institutions, Policies, and Governance: A Preliminary Inquiry

    2010

  • Old and new: changing paradigms in arid lands water management

    2010

  • Adapting across boundaries: climate change, social learning, and resilience in the US–Mexico border region

    2010

  • Ecosystem services across borders: a framework for transboundary conservation policy

    2010

  • Integrating science and policy for water management

    2009

  • Water and energy sustainability with rapid growth and climate change in the Arizona-Sonora border region

    2009

  • Inter-American Institute (IAI) newsletter, issue 1, 2009

    2009

  • Institutions and societal impacts of climate in the Arizona-Sonora portion of the US-Mexico border region

    2009

  • Charting the emergence of ‘global water initiatives’ in world water governance

    2009

  • Hydrosolidarity and international water governance

    2009

  • Global water initiatives: what do the experts think?

    2009

  • Environment and security in the US-Mexico border region: Water and air issues

    2009

  • Transboundary conservation in context: What drives environmental change

    2009

  • Science and socio-ecological resilience: examples from the Arizona-Sonora Border

    2008

  • 'Exploring transdisciplinary discourses'-has the Drakensberg conference measured up to its promise?: editorial comment

    2008

  • Strengthening global water initiatives

    2008

  • Lessons for Integrated Water Resources Management from the San Pedro HELP Basin on the US-Mexico Border

    2007

  • New Water Management Institutions in Mexico’s ‘New Culture of Water’: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Effective Use of Climate Knowledge and Climate Science

    2007

  • Institutions and Societal Impacts of Climate in the Lower Colorado and San Pedro Basins of the US-Mexico Border Region

    2007

  • Linking water and energy along the Arizona/Sonora border

    2007

  • The San Pedro Basin: A Case Study of US and Mexican Strategies to Connect Science to Societal Needs

    2007

  • Climate, water management, and policy in the San Pedro Basin: results of a survey of Mexican stakeholders near the US–Mexico border

    2007

  • Monsoon region climate applications: Integrating climate science with regional planning and policy

    2007

  • Societal adaptation to decadal climate variability in the United States

    2007

  • David Goodrich, Holly Richter, Terry Sprouse and W. James Shuttleworth

    2006

  • INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND POLICY FOR WATER MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE UPPER SAN PEDRO RIVER BASIN 1577

    2006

  • A flood of institutions? Sustaining global water initiatives

    2006

  • The Upper San Pedro Partnership: A Case Study of Successful Strategies to Connect Science to Societal Needs

    2006

  • Water Policy Research on the Upper San Pedro River Basin: An Annotated Bibliography of Contributions by the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy 1997-2006

    2006

  • Mega-networking’at the fourth World Water Forum in Mexico city: looking for opportunities at a megaconference.‘‘

    2006

  • The HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy) Experience in North America

    2005

  • Cuánto cuesta? Development and water in Ambos Nogales and the upper San Pedro basin

    2004

  • Upper San Pedro Basin: fostering collaborative binational watershed management

    2004

  • Global Water Initiatives: Preliminary Observations on Their Evolution and Significance

    2004

  • Water-resources management in the San Pedro basin: Building binational alliances

    2003

  • WHY TRANSBOUNDARY BASINS ARE SIGNIFICANT

    2003

  • Integration of science and decision making for watershed management: A case study of the Upper San Pedro Basin, a bi-national HELP pilot basin

    2003

  • Moving borders from the periphery to the center: River basins, political boundaries, and water management policy

    2003

  • The Basin of Mexico: Critical Environmental Issues and Sustainability

    2002

  • Public–private partnerships as catalysts for community-based water infrastructure development: The Border WaterWorks program in Texas and New Mexico colonias

    2002

  • Transboundary Watersheds: Changing Environments and Streams of Thought

    2002

  • The Birth of a Watershed Alliance in the San Pedro Basin of the US-Mexico Border Region

    2002

  • Temas ambientales a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México: impulsores del cambio y respuestas de ciudadanos e instituciones

    2002

  • Whither hazardous-materials management in the US-Mexico border region?

    2002

  • Managing hazardous materials along the US-Mexico border

    2001

  • Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People. By Arun Agrawal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii, 219 pp. 17.95

    2001

  • … to the Sea of Cortés: nature, water, culture, and livelihood in the Lower Colorado River basin and delta—an overview of issues, policies, and approaches to environmental …

    2001

  • Volume 2 Index

    2000

  • US-Mexico Border Region: Toward University-Based

    2000

  • Hazardous Wastes and the US-Mexico Border Region: Toward a Binational, University-based Institution

    2000

  • Water management options for the Upper San Pedro Basin: Assessing the social and institutional landscape

    2000

  • The Ford Foundation-Sponsored Symposium Series on US-Mexico Border Environmental Policy: A Brief Perspective, 1991-2000

    1999

  • Inter basin water transfers: in the south-western United States: the case of the San Pedro River

    1999

  • INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES-Environmental Issues Along the United States-Mexico Border: Drivers of Change and Responses of Citizens and Institutions

    1999

  • Openness, sustainability, and public participation: New designs for transboundary river basin institutions

    1999

  • ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ALONG THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER: Drivers of Change and Responses of Citizens and Institutions

    1999

  • Managing Transboundary Resources: Lesson from River-Basin Accords

    1998

  • Openness, sustainability, and public participation in transbourdary river-basin institutions. Part III: Adapting the US-Mexico paradigm

    1998

  • Building the Railways of the Raj, 1850–1900. By Ian J. Kerr. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xix, 254 pp. $26.00 (cloth).

    1997

  • Indian Muslims Since Independence. By Omar Khalidi. New Delhi: Vikas, 1995. xii, 246 pp. Rs. 295 (cloth).

    1997

  • Photo: Vladimir Larionov and Natalya Kouprina

    1996

  • The US‐Mexican Border Environment Cooperation Commission: Collected perspectives on the First Two years

    1996

  • Empowering grassroots linkages

    1996

  • Aquifer contamination and safe drinking water: The recent Santa Cruz County experience

    1996

  • Social Ecology. Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Edited by Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 398 pp. $28.00.

    1995

  • Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, Volume 1: Land Transport. In French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society VII. By Jean Deloche, translated …

    1995

  • Fate, Transport, and Interactions of Metals: A Joint United States Mexico Conference

    1995

  • South Asia--Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, Volume I: Land Transport by Jean Deloche and translated by James Walker

    1995

  • Transboundary water resources and public health in the US-Mexico border region

    1995

  • The Sonoran Pimeria Alta: shared environmental problems and challenges

    1995

  • DELOCHE, WALKER (trans.)," Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion", Vol. 1:" Land Transport". In" French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society VII …

    1995

  • FIRST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

    1994

  • Managing transboundary resources: lessons from Ambos Nogales

    1994

  • Environmental conflict and the world’s new international borders

    1993

  • World desertification bibliography

    1991

  • Information management projects in developing countries. The challenge of working with varying levels of infrastructure

    1991

  • Preserving Arizona's Environmental Heritage

    1991

  • The Lake Chad conventional basin. A diagnostic study of environmental degradation

    1990

  • Land Use and Environmental Change in the Gangetic Plain: Nineteenth-Century Human Activity in the Banaras Region

    1989

  • Air pollution in an arid environment: The effects of copper smelting on the US-Mexico border region

    1988

  • Arid lands: Today and tomorrow: Proceedings of an international research and development conference, Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 20-25, 1985

    1988

  • A Regional Center for New Crops and Agrisystems for Dry Lands in Mexico¹

    1988

  • Arid lands: today and tomorrow

    1988

  • Succulent growth-forms in arid environments

    1988

  • Arid lands research institutions: a world directory

    1988

  • Review 51--No Title

    1985

  • Regional hydrologic impacts of global climatic changes

    1985

  • Arid Lands

    1985

  • Review 31--No Title

    1984

  • Draft Environmental Profile of Guinea

    1983

  • Draft Environmental Profile of Burma

    1982

  • Draft environmental profile of Uganda

    1982

  • Rail and road transport in nineteenth century Awadh: competition in a north Indian province

    1981

  • Environmental profile of Pakistan

    1981

  • Draft Environmental Profile of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

    1981

  • North Indian banjaras: Their evolution as transporters

    1979

  • The Diary of a Road: A Sequential Narration of the Origins of the Lucknow-Kanpur Road (1825-1856)

    1978

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