Water Dialogue

 

Ariel Dinar

University of California, Riverside
Department of Environmental Economics and Policy
Profile: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/adinar

Biography

Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside (UCR). His work addresses various aspects of economic and strategic behavior associated with the management of water, groundwater, land, and the environment. Dr. Dinar received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He spent 15 years in the World Bank working on water and climate change economics and policy. Dr. Dinar joined UCR in 2008. 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 a 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He authored and co-authored nearly 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, policy outlets, and book chapters. He co-authored and edited 31 books and textbooks. He founded two technical journals (Strategic Behavior and the Environment, and Water Economics and Policy) for the latter one he serves at present as an Editor-in-Chief. Dr. Dinar founded and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Global Issues in Water Policy.

Selected Relevant Publications

  1. Dinar, A., E. Esteban, E. Calvo, G. Herrera, P. Teatini, R. Tomás, Y. Li, P. Ezquerro, and Jose Albiac, 2021. We Lose Ground: Global Assessment of Land Subsidence Impact Extent. Science of the Total Environment, 786:147415, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147415.
  2. Tellez-Foster, E., A. Dinar, and A. Rapoport, 2018. Comparing Alternative Policies for Modification of Energy Subsidies: The Case of Groundwater Pumping for Irrigation, Journal of Hydrology, 565:614-622, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.08.071.
  3. Esteban, E. and A. Dinar, Modeling Sustainable Groundwater Management: Packaging and Sequencing of Policy Interventions, 2013. Journal of Environmental Management, 119:93-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.12.047.