Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands: Challenge and Response - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jurgen Schmandt is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Distinguished Fellowat the Houston Advanced Research Center where he developed their sustainability program. He specializes in water policy and sustainable development. He previously worked at the German Academic Exchange Service, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Harvard University. He used his work on water and drought in the Rio Grande basin and Northeast Brazil to start the SERIDAS project in 2013. He has published books and articles on technology and society, environmental regulation, climate change, water policy and sustainable development.

Aysegül Kibaroglu is Professor of International Relations at MEF University, Istanbul. She was a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Building a Regime for the Waters of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin (Brill, 2002) and co-editor of Turkey's Water Policy (Springer, 2011). She has published in International Negotiation, Water International, Water Policy, International Journal of Water Resources Development and Global Governance. She is a founding member of the Euphrates Tigris Initiative for Cooperation (ETIC).

Regina M. Buono is a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and a doctoral candidate in public policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a co-editor of Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Gas and Oil (Springer, 2019) and has published in Water International, Water Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, and Environmental Science and Technology.