The WSPC Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change (ePub)

sponsored by the World Bank. She has several publications in the field of environmental economics in which she has analyzed the strategic behavior of firms under the presence of environmental regulation and uncertainty.

Richard M Matthew, PhD (Princeton) is a Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Political Science; Director of the Blum Center for Global Engagement (http://blumcenter.uci.edu); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and Co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 11 books.

Tony Bryant is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University at Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Western Sydney and after a short period working for the Commonwealth Department of Minerals and Energy in Canberra, he moved into academia. He has had visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University in England, and XLRI — Xavier School of Management in India, among other places. His main research interests are in microeconomics, general equilibrium theory, and game theory. Dr Bryant's recent book, General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009), was very favorably reviewed in Zentralblatt MATH. That monograph contains a careful and extended investigation of the foundations of general equilibrium. It turns up...



Ariel Dinar is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior of management of natural resources and the environment. Dr Dinar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water economics and climate change issues. In 2009, Dr Dinar moved to academia, where he assumed a professorship at University of California, Riverside. Dr Dinar founded the Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014. Dr Dinar is an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; and was named the 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 150 peer reviewed papers and co-authored and edited 24 books and textbooks. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment, and Water Economics and Policy) for which he serves as an Editor-in-Chief.

Felix Munoz-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. His research focuses on the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, and game theory, with applications to environmental regulation under incomplete information and firms' entry-deterring practices in polluting industries. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Ana Espinola-Arredondo is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. Her research and teaching focus on the areas of environmental economics and industrial organization. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and was awarded the Research Medal Award of the Global Development Network, sponsored by the World Bank. She has several publications in the field of environmental economics in which she has analyzed the strategic behavior of firms under the presence of environmental regulation and uncertainty.

Richard M Matthew, PhD (Princeton) is a Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Political Science; Director of the Blum Center for Global Engagement (http://blumcenter.uci.edu); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and Co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 11 books.

Tony Bryant is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University at Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Western Sydney and after a short period working for the Commonwealth Department of Minerals and Energy in Canberra, he moved into academia. He has had visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University in England, and XLRI — Xavier School of Management in India, among other places. His main research interests are in microeconomics, general equilibrium theory, and game theory. Dr Bryant's recent book, General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009), was very favorably reviewed in Zentralblatt MATH. That monograph contains a careful and extended investigation of the foundations of general equilibrium. It turns up...



Ariel Dinar is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior of management of natural resources and the environment. Dr Dinar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water economics and climate change issues. In 2009, Dr Dinar moved to academia, where he assumed a professorship at University of California, Riverside. Dr Dinar founded the Water Science and Policy Center, which he directed until 2014. Dr Dinar is an International Fellow of the Center for Agricultural Economic Research of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel since November 2010; a Fulbright Senior Specialist since 2003; and was named the 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 150 peer reviewed papers and co-authored and edited 24 books and textbooks. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment, and Water Economics and Policy) for which he serves as an Chief Editor.

Felix Munoz-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. His research focuses on the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, and game theory, with applications to environmental regulation under incomplete information and firms' entry-deterring practices in polluting industries. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.

Ana Espinola-Arredondo is an Associate Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University since 2014. Her research and teaching focus on the areas of environmental economics and industrial organization. She received a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and was awarded the Research Medal Award of the Global Development Network, sponsored by the World Bank. She has several publications in the field of environmental economics in which she has analyzed the strategic behavior of firms under the presence of environmental regulation and uncertainty.

Richard M Matthew, PhD (Princeton) is a Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Political Science; Director of the Blum Center for Global Engagement (http://blumcenter.uci.edu); Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (www.cusa.uci.edu); and Co-Principal Investigator of the FloodRISE Project (http://floodrise.uci.edu), all at the University of California, Irvine. He is also a member of the United Nations Expert Group on Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and has served on several UN peacebuilding missions, including two he led in Sierra Leone. He has over 170 publications, including 11 books.

Tony Bryant is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University at Sydney, Australia. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Western Sydney and after a short period working for the Commonwealth Department of Minerals and Energy in Canberra, he moved into academia. He has had visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Cambridge University in England, and XLRI — Xavier School of Management in India, among other places. His main research interests are in microeconomics, general equilibrium theory, and game theory. Dr Bryant's recent book, General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009), was very favorably reviewed in Zentralblatt MATH. That monograph contains a careful and extended investigation of the foundations of general equilibrium. It turns up some surpri