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Episode 18: Scott Moore (https://scholar.harvard.edu/scott_moore) is a political scientist whose work focuses on water politics and policy, especially in China and South Asia. Scott is currently a Senior Fellow at the Penn Water Center as well as Director of China Programs in the Office of the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Until 2018, Scott was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist with the World Bank Water Global Practice, where he co-led a study of China’s water sector with the Development Research Center of the State Council and was a co-author of two flagship reports, High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy, and Uncharted Waters: the New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability. Previously, Scott served as Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on climate change, and prior to that was Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. He has published widely on the full range of global water issues in leading publications including Nature, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Times. He is also the author of Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/subnational-hydropolitics-9780190864101), published in 2018 by Oxford University Press. Scott holds a doctorate in Politics and a master’s degree in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton.

This episode's motto: "Beijing will always have water."

China’s Belt and Road and the World’s Water Resource:

https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/analysis/entries/blue-belt-and-road/

David's review of Oriental Despotism:

http://www.aguanomics.com/2016/09/oriental-despotism-review.html

Episode 17: Dr. Alireza Bazargan (http://www.environ.ir) was born in Tehran in 1985, and moved to Canada with his family as a toddler. After spending his childhood and teenage years in North America, he moved back to Iran to study in the Chemical Engineering program of Sharif University of Technology, the most reputable technical university in the country. Dr. Bazargan is a faculty member at the Graduate Faculty of the Environment, University of Tehran, one of the Middle East’s oldest and most prestigious universities. In addition, he is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology. His research and teaching interests cover areas of environmental and energy engineering in general.

This show's motto: "It's hard to be sustainable when you're hungry."

Don't forget that Living with Water Scarcity is available in Farsi, free to download here: http://www.kysq.org/lwws/

After our talk, Alireza sent a clarification and some links of interest:

"I did some additional research about where the word alcohol comes from, and although it is a middle eastern word, it seems that it may have come from al-kuhl rather than al-kohool as I mentioned. Here's a link that explains my confusion: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:alcohol

Here are some supporting links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/20/archives/iranians-who-seized-us-embassy-release-4-women-and-6-black-men.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqOOoztZqw

https://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/content/water/article/environmental-protection-a-luxury-most-nations-cannot-afford-1270164355

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928765513000894

https://voxeu.org/article/concern-environment-luxury-good-evidence-google-searches

https://www.newsweek.com/did-trump-break-law-us-leaves-iran-deal-violates-world-order-risks-war-916173

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-sanctions-iran-international-law

http://en.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=3&pageid=36409&newsview=514551

Episode 16: Martin Fox is a first year Masters degree student in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University. Martin graduated from LUC in July 2018 where he majored in Earth, Energy and Sustainability. He is very passionate about global sustainability issues such as climate change, urban sustainability and fisheries. (His capstone at LUC was about the overexploitation of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna). Professionally, Martin aspires to play a key role in decision making processes, bridging the gap between policy makers and scientists in order to enhance sustainability transitions around the world.

This episode's motto: "It turns out that group work is important."

Episode 15: Dr. Martin Keulertz works as Assistant Professor in the Food Security Programme at the American University of Beirut. He teaches MSc students on food security issues facing the MENA region and the world. His research interests centre around strategies for food and water security in the MENA region and how a rapidly growing region can address its future food requirements through sustainable and adapted domestic production, food technology innovation as well as agricultural trade.

Movie: "We made every living thing from water"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reJEh0jM5-8

This episode's motto: "Decentralize energy to undermine corruption."

Episode 14: Joanna Ruiter is 26 year old, half Scottish half Dutch, but was raised in Germany. After a year of studying International Business she worked in Germany primarily in the hospitality sector, whilst being active in the social entrepreneurship field. She then moved to the Netherlands for further studies. She has a B.Sc. In Earth, Energy, and Sustainability from Leiden University College in The Hague. She has completed the International Space University's Space Studies Program and started working in the Dutch space sector afterwards. Currently she is an advisor for satellite applications at the Netherlands Space Office where she works on the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) project.

This episode's motto: "The path to space is not always direct."

Episode 13: Enya is 23 years old from Montreal, currently living in The Hague. At LUC, Enya majored in Governance, Economics & Development and graduated in July 2017. Finding her spark in the global health courses, she began sculpting her GED courses on healthcare governance and policy-making - eventually writing her Capstone on the organisational sustainability of a digital health project in Ghana.

During the last year of LUC, Enya met her now co-founders via Skype. They had began working on YAPILI (https://yapili.com), which was to be a tele-health platform in Africa. Following graduation Enya travelled alone to Kenya and Botswana to visit local organisations, health facilities and communities to launch the product. Two years later, Enya is the CEO of YAPILI which has grown to become an award-winning social enterprise providing reliable and confidential health advice to African users in 8 countries via the YAPILI online solution.

Enya is also currently pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Policy, Innovation & Management at Maastricht University, where she can apply prior knowledge learned at LUC and experiences gained working in the healthcare sector.

More on Yapili: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2018/05/enya-seguin-healthcare-is-very-conservative

Instagram: @yapili_health

Twitter: @yapili_health

This episode's motto: "Better to innovate in Africa than suffocate under paperwork in wealthier countries."

Episode 12: David Rankin is Executive Director at the Great Lakes Protection Fund (http://glpf.org), the nation’s first ecosystem endowment. He is responsible for investing the Fund’s endowment; planning and resource management; recruiting, developing and retaining top talent; and directing all of these resources to advance the Fund’s mission to find new ways to protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Before joining the Fund, David held senior positions with The Nature Conservancy, and federal and state environmental protection agencies. He has negotiated international conservation agreements, testified as an expert witness in environmental litigation, raised funds, financed projects, led people far more skilled than he, had some important successes and made (at least) his share of mistakes. He has enjoyed nearly all of it. His degree in environmental science was earned at Miami University. The University of Chicago awarded his Master of Business Administration with High Honors. David was born in Maryland and now lives with his wife and daughter in Wilmette, Illinois. He is an avid cook, cyclist, sea kayaker and backpacker. His volunteer work includes leadership and advisory positions with impact investors, elected officials, philanthropies, and not-for-profits, and working with local schools and community groups.

__Links of interest__

Review: How Rivers Made America: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=598

Lake Erie's personhood: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=675

This episode's motto: "Innovation can come from anywhere and go anywhere."

Episode 11: Kristinn Mason has over 20 years’ professional experience as a micro-economist, with wide-ranging and deep exposure to utility regulation across energy, rail, water and wastewater sectors. He has direct experience of working for utility regulators both in the UK and Abu Dhabi, where he has covered many strategic regulatory policy issues. These have included market structure and reforms, as well as designing and setting intra-sector charges and end-customer tariffs. He has also experienced the setting and lifting price controls, developing regulatory incentives and opening markets to competition. Currently, Kristinn is working for a UK water company where he is heavily involved with the current regulatory price review.

This episode's motto: "Take off clothes when you go out, put on clothes when you come in."

Episode 10: Brian Czech is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). Czech served as a conservation biologist in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017 and as a visiting professor of natural resources economics with Virginia Tech through most of that period. He is the author of three books: Supply Shock, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. He has published over 50 academic journal articles in more than 20 peer-reviewed journals. Czech is a frequent speaker, commentator, and a regular contributor to the Steady State Herald, CASSE’s blog. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.

CASSE invites readers worldwide to sign the steady-state petition at www.steadystate.org.

For a short video on the steady state economy, see “Good Growing Gone Bad” at https://steadystate.org/discover/video-audio-and-presentations/.

Want more details on the trophic theory of money? Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyUKjcEp1Jc

This episode's motto: "Everyone needs to do their part!"

Episode 9: Julianne is a 22-year-old Dutch-American, from Detroit and currently based in Boston. At Leiden University College, Julianne majored in International Justice with a focus on human rights. Since graduating, she has been taking the opportunity to explore different kinds of career paths, and is now doing marketing for Abine, Inc. Abine (www.abine.com) is a startup that sells tools allowing individuals to take control of their online privacy.

This episode's motto: "Work to learn the skills for your next job."