Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
Faculty Research Associate, Institute of Behavioral Science
University of Colorado-Boulder
Ph. D., Stanford
Research interests: water resources planning and management; water law and economic efficiency; water markets; role of water and natural resources in economic development
Curriculum Vitae PDF
Selected Publications:
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Articles
- "Reconciling Water Law and Economic Efficiency in Western Water administration", University of Denver Water Law Review, Vol. 17/Issue 1/Spring 2013
- "Achievements and Issues in 2012 Colorado Water", Colorado Business Review, Vol. 78, No. 2, 2012
- "A Vision of Unified River Basin Planning and Management", Chapter 10 in Grayman, Loucks and Saito, eds., Toward a Sustainable Water Future: Visions for 2050, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston VA.,2012
- "The Return to the River Basin: The Increasing Costs of 'Jurisdictional Externalities'", Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Issue 131, Pp 26-32, June 2005.
- "Water Law and Economics: An Assessment of River Calls and the South Platte Well Shutdown", University of Denver Water Law Review, Volume 12/Issue 1/Fall 2008
- "Water Transfers and Their Impacts: Lessons from Three Colorado Water Markets", with Christopher Goemans, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Vol. 39, No. 5, October, 2003
- "The Interstate River Compact as a Water Allocation Mechanism: Efficiency Aspects", with Lynne Bennett and James Shope, 2000, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(4), November (1006-1015)
- "The Effects of Privatization of Public Services: The Case of Urban Water", Water Resources Update, Issue Number 117, October, 2000
- "On the Theory of Optimal Regional Development Based on an Exhaustible Resource" (originally published in Growth and Change, Vol. 18, No. 2 (53-68), Spring, 1987) republished in Kingsley E. Haynes, Kenneth J. Button and Peter Nijkamp (eds) Modern Classics in Regional Science: Regional Dynamics, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. 1995
- "The Value of Water Supply Reliability in Urban Water Systems" (with Mark G. Smith), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 26 (19-30), January 1994
- "The Economic Impacts of Agriculture-to-Urban Water Transfers on the Area of Origin: A Case Study of the Arkansas River Valley in Colorado" (with Jeffrey K. Lazo and Kenneth R. Weber), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 72, No. 5, December 1990
- "Project Benefits and Costs from National and Regional Viewpoints: Methodological Issues and Case Study of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1: 1-20, Winter, 1987
- "The Impact of Price on Residential Water Demand and Its Relation to System Design and Price Structure," (with F.P. Linaweaver, Jr.) Water Resources Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1967
Books
- Privatization of Water Services in the United States, National Research Council, 2002
- Interbasin Transfers of Water: Economic Issues and Impacts, co-authored with William K. Easter, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971
- Benefit/Cost Analysis for Water System Planning, Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1971
- Natural Resource Economics: Issues, Analysis, and Policy, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979
