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Episode 189, from the archives (1 Mar 2010):

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-mike-young/

Mike's webpage: http://www.myoung.net.au/water/

Episode 188 (20 Apr 2022): Ed Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University and Gettysburg College, and later at several universities in Europe, including American Institute of Business and Economics in Moscow, Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on climate economics, health care, and social policy.

Are Economists Wrong About Carbon Pricing?

https://www.niskanencenter.org/are-economists-wrong-about-carbon-pricing/

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/168-ed-dolan-on-state-capacity-liberalism-and-prosperity

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/139-yoram-bauman-puts-economic-ideas-into-practice

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/137-steve-keen-explains-how-nordhaus-screwed-up-his-climate-models

The future of the human species

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3514

Episode 187 (1 Mar 2010): Dr Adam Loch (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/adam.loch) is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Prior to moving to South Australia Adam spent 10 years as a cotton grower and advocate for irrigators in Queensland and currently researches topics such as irrigator decision-making, water markets and institutional reform, transaction costs, and reallocation policy/program effectiveness.

Original post (2010): https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-adam-loch/

For more on "failing to find a balance between agriculture and the environment," see my review of Dead in the Water: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3254

Episode 186 (22 Apr 2022): Paul Behrens is BACK for another JT episode, this time discussing what economists get wrong about the costs and consequences of climate chaos.

Prior appearances:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/114-paul-behrens-on-writing-and-reading-books

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/102-paul-behrens-on-our-struggles-to-live-the-best-of-times

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/72-paul-behrens-brings-hope-to-our-sustainability-challenges

Episode 185 (19 Feb & 1 Mar 2010): Here's another episode from the archives! In 2010, I talked with Tom Rooney, CEO of WaterFind (https://waterfind.com), on how (bulk) water markets work in Australia. They are complicated!

Some notes from the original recording: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-tom-rooney/

Episode 184 (19 Apr 2022): Coming from a humble upbringing in a country where disenfranchisement is all too common, Kalo Filipov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaloyan-filipov/) is an avid risk-taker who aspires to find a meaningful calling while simultaneously uplifting himself to a better standard of life. Completing the Governance, Economics and Development major at LUC deepened his affinity with the intricacies that shape the public policy process and revealed an avenue to find purpose within public policy-related research, advocacy and activism. He is now determined to develop as a public policy expert with a strong computational social science background and work on the issues of corruption, media influence and civil society engagement based on their relevance for European governance as well as for wider transitional contexts around the world.

Episode 183 (17 Feb 2010): Professor Lin Crase (https://people.unisa.edu.au/lin.crase) is Professor of Economics and Dean of Programs (Accounting & Finance). He joined UniSA in February 2016 as Head of School of Commerce. Prior to commencing at UniSA, Lin was Professor and Director of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University. Lin's research has focused on applied economics in the context of water. He has analysed water markets and the property rights that attend them, water pricing and numerous applications of water policy. Whilst his expertise includes the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, he has also worked on projects in south Asia, Japan and Europe.

Original post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/02/water-chat-with-lin-crase/

Dead in the Water review (Political fail in the MD Basin )

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3254

Episode 182 (18 Apr 2022): Jack is an associate climate risk and resilience engineer with Arup based in San Francisco. He specializes in flood risk engineering, multi-hazard resilience planning, and sea level rise adaptation. He previously worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers as a water resources engineer and also spent one year in Delft on a Fulbright Fellowship focused on comparing Dutch and American approaches to accounting for SLR in the planning of large scale flood infrastructure.

Ties is an associate Ties-shaped engineer at Studio Ties and Flows Productions, based in Molenpolder, Netherlands. He is affiliated with Delft University of Technology and World Wildlife Fund. He specializes in flood risk, the Dutch national water system, nature-inclusive engineering and landscape quality, on which he wrote a PhD Tiesis in 2017. When he was still young, he designed floating houses and cities. At the moment, he writes for national newspapers to influence the Dutch policy debate about sea level rise, housing and spatial planning, among other projects. His hobbies are, among other hobbies, macro economics!

Ties's original post (in Dutch)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deltadebat-1-verstedelijking-anders-verdelen-over-ties-rijcken/

Delta commission report -- https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/01/learning-from-the-dutch/

Ties's Tiesis ("EMERGO - the Dutch flood risk system since 1986," in English)

http://www.flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282

Ties's favorite paper ("The End of the Netherlands," in Dutch)

https://flowsplatform.nl/#/het-einde-van-nederland-1581499146796

David's Little Book of The Commons

https://www.kysq.org/lbc/

Episode 181 (4 Feb 2010): This episode is from the archives, originally recorded in Brisbane. At the time, I summarized it thus: "I spoke to John Quiggin of the University of Queensland about water issues in Australia and Queensland. I learned that California and Australia are similar in many ways (dams, salinity, politics, paper water rights, ag trading, desalination, etc.)

I was quite surprised to hear that Brisbane’s dramatic drop in per capita use (to 130 liters/capita/day) was accomplished with regulations more than prices. (BUT, they — the water managers — did pay a lot of attention to metered water volumes.)

John blogs and tweets on on Aussie economics and politics at:

https://johnquiggin.com

https://twitter.com/JohnQuiggin

Episode 180 (14 Apr 2022): Erica Gies (Twitter: @egies; www.ericagies.com) is the author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." She's an independent reporter and National Geographic Explorer who writes about water, climate, plants, and critters for Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, The New York Times, bioGraphic and other publications.

The best place for people to learn more about the book and buy it is: https://slowwater.world/ They can choose the UK or US version.

Here are a few stories Erica has written based on her reporting for the book:

Slow water...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/07/slow-water-urban-floods-drought-china-sponge-cities

California and paleo valleys: https://baynature.org/article/capturing-the-flood-in-californias-ancient-underground-waterways/

The Hyporheic Zone: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-revive-a-river-restore-its-hidden-gut1/

Chennai and the tanks: https://www.biographic.com/chennai-ran-out-of-water/

Peru and Indigenous infrastructure: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210510-perus-urgent-search-for-slow-water

Beijing and flooding: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/21/1041318/flooding-landscape-architecture-yu-kongjian/

Photo credit to Jill Beale