Ariel Dinar
Ariel Dinar
Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy
Director, Water Science and Policy Center (WSPC)
Academic Degrees:
- Ph.D. Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1984
- M.Sc. Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974
- B.Sc. Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972
Specialization:
- Water and Environmental Economics
- Water Policy
- Climate Change
- Regional Cooperation
- Cooperative Game Theory
- Economics of Extension
Research Group:
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Graduate Students
- Arisha Ashraf (PhD, Environmental Economics)
- Indrani Chattayana (PhD, Economics)
- Edgar Tellez Foster (PhD, Environmental Economics)
- Uday Jammalamadaka (PhD, Economics)
- Sanval Nasim (PhD, Environmental Economics)
- Getachew Nigatu (PhD, Economics)
- Javier Ortiz (PhD, Economics)
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Other
Representative Publications:
- Mendelsohn, R. and A. Dinar, Climate Change and Agriculture: An Economic Analysis of Global Impacts, Adaptation, and Distributional Effects. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009.
- Garrido, A. and A. Dinar (Eds.), Mountains, Valleys and Flood Plains: Managing Water Resources in a Time of Global Change. London: Routledge 2009.
- Dinar, A. and J. Albiac (Eds.), Policy and Strategic Behaviour in Water Resource Management. EarthScan 2009.
- Wang, J., R. Mendelsohn, A. Dinar, J. Huang, S. Rozelle, and L. Zhang, The Impact of Climate Change on China’s Agriculture, Agricultural Economics 40(3), 2009.
- Maria-Saleth, R. and A. Dinar, Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions, Journal of Institutional Economics, 4(3):375-401, 2008.
- Diao, X., A. Dinar, T. Roe and Y. Tsur, A General Equilibrium Analysis of Conjunctive Ground and Surface Water Use with an Application to Morocco, Agricultural Economics 38:117-135, 2008.
- Dinar, A., K. Kemper, W. Blomquist and P. Kurukulasuriya, Whitewater: Process and Performance of Decentralization Reform of River Basin Water Resource Management, Journal of Policy Modeling, 29(6):851-867, 2007.
Courses Taught:
- ECON/ENSC006 – Introduction to Environmental Economics
- ENSC/ECON 143B – Natural Resource Economics
- ECON 210E – Political Economy of Environmental Policy
- GBST130 – Management of International Water
Graduate Program and Track Affiliations:
Honors and Awards
- 1997 Best Article of the Year in the Agriculture and Resource Economics Review. Dinar, A. and A. Wolf, "Economic and Political Considerations in Regional Cooperation Models".
- Fulbright Senior Specialists Program, Teaching assignment, University of Economics, Prague, The Czech Republic, 2002.
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