Several faculty members in the Economics department at the University of New Mexico will participate in the 2004 Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) annual conference in Portland, Ore., July 20-22, 2004. The conference, “Allocating Water: Economics and the Environment,” features academicians, federal and state agencies, water managers and other professionals.
Case studies, analyses of current water allocation problems in several U.S. river basins and proposed new techniques will be presented. The discussions provide valuable materials for consideration in water resources research, education, legislation and policy.
Economics professors David Brookshire, Janie Chermak, Kate Krause, Philip Ganderton, Mary Ewers, Kristine Grimsrud, Kristan Cockerill, and Geography professor Olen Paul Matthews will represent UNM and give numerous presentations during the conference.
One of the more involved sessions the UNM Economics department is participating in is the “Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas” or SAHRA. The science and technology center was conceived and designed to make advances in the understanding of semi-arid hydrology, and to focus on practical problems of water resources policy, management and operational decision-making. It was established in 2000 through a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
UNM will also participate in other sessions including: Water Rights Markets, Prices and Limitations; Legal Issues of Water Allocation; Prices and Policy: Management of Groundwater Resources; and Approaches to Water Conservation.
The conference is sponsored by UCOWR, an organization of U.S. universities and international affiliates actively engaged in water resources education, research and public service, and the National Institutes for Water Resources, a network of research institutes in each state responsible for implementing the Federal Water Resources Research Act.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Posted by scarr at June 30, 2004 04:17 PM