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Episode 179 (25 Mar 2022): Joes and Brandon discuss their recent article (in Dutch) on the policy impacts of consolidating municipalities.

The article:

https://www.mejudice.nl/artikelen/detail/herindeling-gemeente-bezint-eer-ge-begint

People vote for individuals in small municipalities: “Mensen stemmen op mensen” - StukRoodVlees

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of the Right and Left:

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas/dp/0465050972

Municipal amalgamations reduce voter turnout:

https://www.coelo.nl/images/artikelen/Is_small_beautiful_Transitional_and_structural_effects_of_municipal_amalgamation_on_voter_turnout_in_local_and_national_elections.pdf

DZ's paper on Dutch water companies

https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf

The Ostroms' 1977 paper ("Public Economy Organization and Service Delivery")

http://hdl.handle.net/10535/732

Episode 178 (23 Mar 2022): Charles Fishman is a journalist, author and historian — and he’s joining me today because of his decade of reporting about water, which includes the bestselling book, “The Big Thirst,” which focuses on how people around the world solve their water problems -- or fail to solve them. Charles started work as a reporter for the Washington Post. His most recent book is “One Giant Leap,” about the race to the Moon in the 1960s. In our conversation, he will make a direct connection between flying to the Moon and tackling water and climate issues. Charles grew up in Miami, and now lives in Washington DC — where he has a three-foot-wide creek running through his backyard.

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

https://herringbonebooks.indielite.org/book/9781501106309

My review of The Big Thirst

http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-big-thirst-the-review/

Charles's favorite water tidbit: "When I was in San Pellegrino, in the north near the Italian Alps, I idly asked a question about the bubbles in San Pellegrino water. Turns out, San Pellegrino comes out of the ground “still.” The company owns a spring, with carbonated water, down in Tuscany. San Pellegrino captures that water, removes the CO2, purifies it, concentrates it, puts it in tankers, trucks it 350 miles up to the Alps — where San Pellegrino injects it into the San Pellegrino water coming out of the spring there. You can literally trace the CO2 trail of the CO2 in the Pellegrino water."

“Message in a Bottle” (about Fiji water)

https://www.fastcompany.com/59971/message-bottle

Is the glass half empty or half full? (DZ as pessimist)

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=23

Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854--2010

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y

Polluting businesses are moving into the financial shadows

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/02/12/the-truth-about-dirty-assets

Episode 177 (23 Mar 2022): Alessandro Cercaci is studying International Relations and Organizations at Leiden U, Leane Jupet is thinking about GED at LUC, and Nick Weerdenburg is studying history at Leiden U. The team is doing a “think tank report” for "A Better World Is Possible” — a course in the Honours College of Governance and Global Affairs.

Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India

http://economics.mit.edu/files/792

Episode 176 (10 Mar 2022): Vanessa Casado Pérez is an Associate Professor and Dean’s Reseach Chair at Texas A&M School of Law and has a joint appointment with the Department of Agricultural Economics. Her scholarship focuses on property and natural resources law, with a particular focus on water markets. She holds a doctoral degree from NYU, an LLM from the University of Chicago, and a several other law and economics degrees. She is originally from a rural village not too far from Barcelona.

Episode motto: "Hard choices are not taken when “emergency measures” are on the table."

Whose Water? Corporatization of a Common Good

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3985619

Rango review

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/09/monday-funnies-290/

MWD-PVID deal:

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/03/water-chats-smith-of-pvid/

The water data hub

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/03/the-water-data-hub-is-live/

Episode 175 (9 Mar 2022): Jerry Gilbert is a California water professional engineer. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford, with experience in large and small utility management.He has been a leader of government agencies and associations both national and international.

Jerry's previous episode:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/166-jerry-gilbert-managed-california-waters-for-decades

Episode 174 (25 Feb 2022): Clara Amado Vega (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claraamadovega/) trained as an architect and urbanist in Spain and worked for five years internationally before studying for her masters degree in Governance of Sustainability at Leiden University. In that program, she focused on creating more biodiverse and sustainable cities and wrote a thesis on the vulnerability of Dutch cities and citizens to impacts of the Urban Heat Island effect. Going forward, she wants to focus on evidence-based policy development, enabling change in the sustainability field, and bridging the gap between science, technical experts and policymakers.

Her thesis

https://ssrn.com/abstract=4049664

Why we’re failing to stop climate chaos

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2848

Episode 173 (10 Feb 2022): Robert Chesal is a journalist and university lecturer. He's been reporting for Dutch news media since the early 1990s, working in radio, print, television and online. Robert's won the Journalist of the Year award for investigative reporting in 2011. Since 2013 he's been teaching journalism at LUC and in the Masters program in Groningen.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertchesal/

https://twitter.com/RChesal

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html

The China story (links from day 1, and day 2, when we did a follow up on China's influence operations and reported on the VU Amsterdam shutting down the human rights center's website)

https://nos.nl/artikel/2413702-china-financiert-onderzoek-naar-mensenrechten-aan-vu

https://nos.nl/artikel/2413806-waarom-wil-china-invloed-uitoefenen-op-nederlandse-academici

https://nos.nl/artikel/2414560-mensenrechtencentrum-vu-staakt-alle-activiteiten

The Guardian and Politico picked up the story:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/dutch-university-gives-up-chinese-funding-due-to-impartiality-concerns

https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-university-amsterdam-scandal-taps-china-influence/

On the sex abuse in the church story, this was the very first scoop (the English version was archived on the Wayback Machine, luckily):

https://web.archive.org/web/20100301040953/http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2493257.ece/Child_sex_abuse_in_Dutch_Catholic_Church_revealed

The last article we published together on the subject was in 2016, after the film Spotlight won 2 Oscars.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/03/19/destijds-moesten-ze-zwijgen-nu-weer-1602738-a697882

Rik Rutten's story in De Correspondent

https://decorrespondent.nl/6704/bijles-voor-eindexamens-is-booming-en-daarmee-de-onderwijsongelijkheid/930836737248-54a113a4

Episode 172 (9 Feb 2022): Spencer Harris is a geologist from the central coast of California. He is a licensed California professional geologist and holds a masters degree in applied geoscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He has applied cross-disciplinary technology to solve water problems in Arizona, California and Rhode Island. He's the co-founder of Basin Logix, a startup that offers a unique (blockchain) solution to groundwater management.

https://www.basinlogix.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Groundwater_Management_Act

A blog post on managing water

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/05/chris-perry-on-water-rights/

Episode 171 (25 Jan 2022): Paul Preux has a love for his hometown, Brussels, and a passion for enabling transitions in cities. After completing his bachelor's degree in "governance, economics and development" Paul implemented educational smart city projects in Brussels for Gluon. After finishing a masters in "managing infrastructure for green cities", he worked at Arcadis.

Julian Cortes is passionate about protecting the environment. He has a bachelor's degree in "earth, energy, and sustainability" and a master's degree in "environmental studies and sustainability science". Julian currently works at the European Landowner's Organization where he focuses on rural sustainability and entrepreneurship.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bioflux-eu

Here’s the 2009 post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/04/neat-ideas/

Episode 170 (21 Jan 2022): James Eaves, Ph.D., is an agricultural economist and professor at Laval University. His research focuses on how emerging technology can improve the profitability and sustainability of controlled-environment agriculture. He is also the Director of Indoor Agriculture at VoltServer and formally the Head of R&D at Greenseal Cannabis company.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameseaves/

4 Mar 2023: An investor bubble that's popping? https://www.fastcompany.com/90824702/vertical-farming-failing-profitable-appharvest-aerofarms-bowery