Bloggers
Chris Perry is an economist specializing in water resources. He worked for the Bank for more than 20 years, and was subsequently head of research at the International Water Management Institute.
I am a geographer at the World Bank, where I have worked in the Development Research Group and the Agriculture and Rural Development Department. My work focuses on climate risk management, modeling, and financing (such as weather-based insurance and catastrophe contingency planning), natural resource management, and analytical support to operations with a focus on spatial analysis, geographic information systems and remote sensing. Before that, I researched Earth system science, remote sensing-based terrestrial ecosystem mapping, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, and geo-statistical computing. I have a PhD in Geo-Information Science from Boston University, and undergraduate degrees in Physical Geography and Agricultural Sciences from the Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. I am an adjunct faculty member at George Mason University, Virginia.
Andrea Liverani is a social development specialist with the World Development Report 2010 team, working on institutional and governance aspects of climate policy at the national and local level. Before moving to Washington DC to join the Bank, he was with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Andrea has extensive research and work experience in the Middle East and North Africa, and a PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. He enjoys swimming, and good food.
Arun Agrawal teaches environmental politics at the University of Michigan in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He is particularly interested in learning about adaptation and climate change, forests and communities, and poverty and rural social life. When he can find time from teaching, writing, and traveling between Washington DC and Ann Arbor, he also likes to hunt mushrooms, bake bread, and learn French.
Kirk Hamilton is Lead Economist in the Development Economics Research Group of The World Bank and co-author of World Development Report 2010 Development and Climate Change. He is principal author of the World Bank report Where is the Wealth of Naions? and leads research on the links between poverty and environment, ‘greening’ the national accounts, and the economics of climate change. Previously senior research fellow at the UK Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, Dr. Hamilton has researched and published extensively on growth theory and the economics of sustainable development. He also served as Assistant Director of National Accounts for the government of Canada, where his responsibilities included developing an environmental national accounting program. His degrees include a PhD in Economics and MSc in Resource and Environmental Economics from University College London, as well as a BSc (Eng.) from Queen's University at Kingston.
Xiaodong Wang is a Senior Energy Specialist at the World Bank working on the Energy Chapter of the World Development Report 2010 about development and climate change. Her primary interest and expertise are in the area of energy and environment, particularly clean energy and climate change.
Previously, she worked on energy access and clean energy in Africa, and renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program of the Bank. Before joining the Bank, she worked at the United Nations Foundation managing the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Program, and UNDP Global Environment Facility developing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. She holds a PhD in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley.
MARIANNE FAY is the incoming Chief Economist of the Sustainable Development Network and the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on climate change. She has held positions in different regions of the World Bank (Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa) working on infrastructure, urbanization, and more recently, adaptation to climate change. Her research has mostly focused on the role of infrastructure and urbanization in development, with a particular interest in issues related to urban poverty. She is the author of a number of articles and books on these topics. Ms Fay has recently been appointed as the new Chief Economist for the Sustainable Development Network of the World Bank—a position she will take after finishing the World Development Report, in the Fall of 2009. Marianne Fay holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.
Rosina Bierbaum is the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on climate change. Since 2001, she has been the Dean and Professor at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) at the University of Michigan. Previously, Dr. Bierbaum served for two decades in environmental science policy leadership positions in both the legislative and executive branches of government, culminating as director of the Environment Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Senate-confirmed position. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently serves on the National Research Council’s Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; as a trustee of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; on the board of the Federation of American Scientists; and on the Science Advisory Council for the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Dr. Bierbaum received her B.S. in Biology and B.A. in English from Boston College, and earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Jean-Louis Racine is a science, technology and innovation specialist for the Europe and Central Asia region of the World Bank. His work focuses on policies and programs to support technology diffusion and innovation. Prior to his current position, he worked in a private consulting practice where he advised regional governments and businesses on technology-based competitiveness strategies. Jean-Louis Racine holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a Management of Technology Certificate from the University of California at Berkeley, an MIA in Technology Policy for Economic Development from Columbia University and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Ricardo Fuentes Nieva is a chapter author for the World Development Report 2010 at the World Bank. He is currently on leave from his position as policy specialist at the Human Development Report Office of UNDP. Over there, he co-authored four Human Development Reports, including the HDR 2007/2008 on climate change. His recent work has focused on the impact of water and climate disasters on the livelihoods and opportunities of poor people. Before joining UNDP, he was director of statistical analysis and advisor to the Under Secretary of Social Development in Mexico. From 1999 to 2001 he was part of the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank.
He has published several articles and chapters in books on social security, social policy, regional development, income poverty and inequality. He graduated with honors from CIDE in Mexico City and earned a master’s degree in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain.
I am a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, and a consultant to the 2010 WDR. I’m contributing to topics related to vulnerability, adaptive capacity, resilience, water, adaptation, governance, and innovation. I really enjoy working on reports like the WDR, as they represent a unique opportunity to add to the international dialogue on climate change. I have a background in Earth science and public policy, and I am currently researching adaptation and water issues in Brazil and the United States. My personal interests involve cooking, anything sports-related (especially cycling), and following politics at all levels of government.
Julia Bucknall is a Lead Natural Resources Specialist at the World Bank where she works on water management, infrastructure investments, and irrigation in the Middle East and North Africa. She was the lead author of a flagship publication on water in the region, “Making the Most of Scarcity”. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked on water investment projects and analytical work in North Africa, Central Asia, Central Europe, Cambodia and Central America. She has studied at Cambridge University and MIT, where she earned a Master in Environmental Policy and Planning.
I am a research assistant for the World Development Report 2010. I am working on the chapter dealing with the effects of climate change on competing demands for land and water. I have been working at the World Bank for a little more than one year. My previous projects focused on coastal areas, including a tool to identify environmental impacts originating from policy changes, and a report on coastal adaptations to climate change.
Rachel is a research assistant with the WDR team, and despite her youthfulness, is not as tech-savvy as she ought to be, though she, along with the planet, is now getting warmed up. Born just a few blocks from HQ and DC-raised, working at the Bank was probably inevitable. Her roundabout path back to DC has included an economics bachelors from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, a couple years at the Center for Global Development, an economics masters from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and the occasional hike in the foothills of Jebel Toubqal or the coffee fincas of Guatemala. Her work on climate change began with economic estimates of the impact on agricultural output, continued with adaptation in Europe and Central Asia, and isn’t likely to end any time soon.
I joined the World Bank as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics in June, 2008, after serving for 15 years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University, from where I am currently on leave. I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and have written a number of books on China, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, and State-owned Enterprise Reform in China. As the World Bank's first chief economist from the developing world, I have a deep interest in climate change, which is an evolving crisis poised to affect many developing countries. I am particularly concerned that global warming caused by unmanaged climate change could reverse the hard-earned development gains of the past decades and progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals in many places. But every crisis is also an opportunity. That's why we need ideas---and conversations about them.
Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, where he is also head of the India Observatory within the LSE's Asia Research Centre, and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Previously, having held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick and the LSE, he was then Chief Economist for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and subsequently Chief Economist and Senior VP of the World Bank. In 2005, he was appointed by the UK government to conduct the influential Stern Review, which analysed the economic costs of climate change.
I am a Lead Environmental Economist in the World Bank, where among a host of other things, I coordinate the climate change work agenda in the South Asia Region. Prior to this I was Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. My publications and research interests have spanned many areas of economics including development economics, game theory, environmental economics and macroeconomics. In the past I have advised numerous international agencies such as the OECD, FAO, UNESCO and governments. The environment and conservation of endangered species are matters of long standing interest and concern to me. I have published numerous papers on the economics of endangered species conservation – an issue where solutions remain highly elusive and ever more challenging.
Rasmus is a development economist with a passion for poverty and natural resources and how they interface. He has published extensively in academic journals on poverty, forestry, social protection, and climate adaptation and has worked in many countries including Pakistan, Mozambique, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, China, Maldives, Armenia, and Tajikistan. Rasmus currently works in the World Bank’s Social Development department based in Washington, where, among other things, he administers the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development—the premier WB trust fund covering the poverty-social-environment nexus and supported by Norway and Finland. A citizen of Denmark, Rasmus holds a Ph.D. in development economics from the University of Copenhagen. This is his first time blogging and he is excited to explore with his readers on how to bring about pro-poor adaptation.
As a Communications Officer in the World Bank’s Development Economics department, my work involves distilling and sharing as widely as possible the main messages from publications such as the World Development Report and Global Economic Prospects series, as well as from ongoing research. Before joining the World Bank in 2001, I was a free-lance journalist in India for several years. Reading and writing are the things I most enjoy; my first book Brahmins and Bungalows: Travels through South Indian History was published by Penguin India in 2004. I also like to tend plants and hike with my dog.
Judith Rodin is president of the Rockefeller Foundation. She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania and the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution. In four years at the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Rodin recalibrated its focus for the 21st century. Today, the Foundation works to ensure that more people can tap into globalization’s benefits while developing stronger resilience to its risks. Foundation initiatives include efforts to mobilize an agricultural revolution in sub-Saharan Africa, bolster economic security for American workers, inform more equitable, sustainable transportation policies in the United States, assure access to affordable, high-quality health systems in developing countries, and help vulnerable communities cope with the impacts of imminent and worsening climate change. For more information, visit www.rockfound.org.
It has been a long and unforeseeable journey, and now I find my professional vista intersecting with the global challenges of our times. Born and raised in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) I had an early passion for humanitarian purposes but hardly realized the context in which I was destined to work. After receiving a Masters in economics from the University of Calcutta, I traveled to the USA to get a doctorate in economics from the State University of New York. I then taught at the University at Albany and American University before my career began at the World Bank in 1992. As I undertook extensive research on various issues related to development and environment, my work spanned countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Iran, Lao PDR, Mexico, Tunisia, Vietnam and Yemen. At present, I am a Lead Environmental Economist in the Environment and Energy Team of the Bank’s Development Research Group, and my current research focuses on climate change and the poverty/environment nexus.
I love to travel around the world, but enjoy living in Washington D.C. and visiting museums and film festivals. I am also an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction, and a regular volunteer at Martha's Table, one of the oldest soup kitchens in the area.
I am a Senior Environmental Economist in the Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank’s South Asia region based in Delhi. I primarily work on climate change mitigation and adaptation issues in India. Prior to moving to Delhi, I was in the Environment Department leading the World Bank's work on assessing environmental implications of development policy reforms. My work also focused on country environmental assessments, natural resources management, environmental institutions and governance, climate change and adaptation and trade and climate change issues. Prior to joining this position, I was an Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund, where I was responsible for analyzing environmental implications of macroeconomic policies and programs and in integrating environmental considerations broadly in the country programs. I have a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. I have a passion for cricket, bollywood movies and music.
I joined the World Bank in 1986, and since January 2007, have been Lead Economist in the Sustainable Development Department in the Latin America and Caribbean Region. I work on rural development, environment, social development, energy, infrastructure, urban development and water supply. My biggest project over the last year and a half or so has been co-editing (with Augusto de la Torre and Pablo Fajnzylber) LAC’s flagship report on climate change, “Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change”. (Read the overview)
Between 1983 and 1988, I held various positions at the US Federal Trade Commission, and before that, was assistant professor of economics at Texas A&M University. My educational background is an MSc and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and a BS in economics from Texas A&M University. I have published on topics such as WTO negotiations and the implications for developing countries; trade policy in Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and transition economies; agricultural policy adjustment; agricultural price policy; commodity price stabilization; and capital mobility.
I’m married, with a 21-year-old daughter who’s into creative writing and a 17-year-old son who’s into baseball and being a teenager to the max. I love to ski in the winter and scuba in the summer.
Shantayanan Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Devarajan also hosts the World Bank's Africa region blog, Africa Can... End Poverty.
Dr. Michael MacCracken is Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute in Washington DC. Mike spent most of his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as an atmospheric physicist, researching the causes of climate change, climatic effects of greenhouse gases, volcanic aerosols, land-cover change, and nuclear war, and investigating factors affecting air quality. From 1993-2002, he was on assignment from LLNL as senior global change scientist for the interagency Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), serving as the Office’s executive director from 1993-1997 and as executive director of USGCRP’s coordination office for the U.S. National Assessment from 1997-2001. During this time, he also coordinated preparation of the official U.S. Government reviews of IPCC’s second and third assessments, serving also as a contributing author on several IPCC chapters and as review editor for the North America chapter for the fourth assessment. Since retiring in 2002 after 34 years with LLNL, Mike has, in addition to his activities with the Climate Institute, served as president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences from 2003-2007 and as a member of the Assessment Integration Team for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment from 2002-2004. From 2005-2007, he served as a co-lead author for the report Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable that was prepared for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development by Sigma Xi and the United Nations Foundation.
Hello, I am a graduate from the University of Monterrey in Mexico where I got a major in international studies. During my college years I had the opportunity to volunteer in many indigenous communities in the north of Mexico. Those experiences changed my point of view about culture and development and got me particularly interested in rural development, indigenous groups, sustainable development, and how we can empower our indigenous population in order to mitigate climate change. I also have experience collaborating with UNESCO North Committee in Mexico and the Interamerican Culture and Development Foundation in Washington D.C.
I grew up in Sydney, Australia. I am twenty-one and currently in my final year of the undergraduate degree in Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge, UK. I have a keen interest in community-based education programs and have recently developed youth-led initiatives that concern domestic violence and climate change. My hobbies include swimming, bushwalking, languages and contemporary art.
I am a recent graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon. I am about to start working for an investment firm in my country. Like many youth of my generation, I am passionate about issues that affect us in the developing countries of the world. My favorite pastime is debating; I was part of the team that won the Ghana National debate championship in 2004. At the recent Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Seoul, I was one of the three finalists for an essay competition on climate change. We came together to form the Global Green Generation (3G) Network, a youth environmental advocacy group to help carry out some of the ideas expressed in our essays. Although I must admit that the road so far has been very bumpy, we hope to be able to impact our generation positively and not end with the award ceremony of the essay competition.
Shiva Makki joined the World Bank research department in 2004 as a senior economist. He is part of a unit involved in financing, evaluating, and disseminating research. He received his Ph.D. degree in agricultural and resource economics from The Ohio State University in 1996. He studied agricultural science at University Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India. After his graduation, he worked at the Economic Research Service of United States Department of Agriculture for six years managing various agriculture sector projects. He has written more than 30 papers of which more than half are published in peer reviewed journals. He has taught for many years at The Ohio State University and USDA Graduate School. More recently, he participated in the Sustainable Development Leadership Program held at the University of Cambridge.
Carlos is a senior scientist with the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) and director of the Center for Earth System Science. Currently, he is the chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). He is a climatologist with research interests in climate science, climate change and the Amazon.
Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project. He also directs the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi, and he also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He has been elected to several scientific academies including the Royal Society of London, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. He is currently setting up the Victoria Institute of Science and Technology in Kisumu, Kenya. He has won several international awards for his work on sustainable development. He holds a PhD in science and technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and environment. He teaches courses in developmental policy as part of the MPA/ID Program. He is lead author of Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development. He is editor of the International Journal of Technology and Globalisation and International Journal of Biotechnology.
I live in Waso village, near Koija on the Laikipia Plateau in Kenya.
Neil Adger is Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and leads the research programme on adaptation in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Neil has served as an author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and reports of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change. He is a member of the Resilience Alliance.
Johannes Zutt, a Dutch national, has been active in development since 1990. His early experience involved program planning, monitoring and evaluation, mostly for UNICEF and UNDP, in various countries in eastern and southern Africa. In 1999, Mr. Zutt joined the World Bank, where he worked as the Country Program Coordinator for a number of countries, including Angola, China, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique, and Zambia, as well as the team leader for numerous country strategies and projects. In 2006, Mr. Zutt was appointed the Adviser to one of the Bank’s two Managing Directors, and in January 2008 he was asked to serve as the acting head of the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT), which is mandated to investigate allegations of fraud or corruption related to Group-financed projects. Mr. Zutt was appointed the World Bank Country Director for Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia in January 2009.
Jane Ebinger was assigned to the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) as Thematic Coordinator for Energy and Climate Change in October 2008. Jane has over 20 years experience working in the energy sector both in the oil and gas industry (for BP and BHP Billiton) and at the World Bank. She joined the World Bank' Europe and Central Asia Energy team in 2001 initially on a staff exchange program from BP. She has worked in project, operational and corporate/policy roles on issues including environment assessment and management, safety risk assessment, oil spill and emergency response management, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and carbon finance. Jane has an MA Mathematics and an MSc Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, both from Oxford University, UK.
Michael I. Westphal is an environmental scientist with interests at the intersection of climate change, environment and development and is member of the Core Team of the World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change. He received a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC Berkeley, where his dissertation concerned ecological modeling and conservation planning for birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. He did postdoctoral work on ecological-economic modeling at UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, and on marine reserves at Arizona State University. As an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in the Office of International Affairs at the EPA, he worked on a multidisciplinary weapons nonproliferation program in the former Soviet Union, whose goal was to re-direct former weapons scientists to environmental research. Since 2006, Michael has worked at various departments at the World Bank in the area of climate change adaptation, developing knowledge products such as the World Bank Climate Change Data Portal and the ADAPT screening tool and conducting various climate change analyses. He is also a contributing author to the edited book, Adapting to Climate Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (World Bank 2009). Michael has also consulted to the Inter-American and African Development Banks in the areas of biodiversity and climate change adaptation.
Alan S. Miller is a climate change and global environmental expert with more than 30 years experience. He currently is Principal Climate Change Specialist in the Environment Department at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, with general responsibility for climate change policy and analysis. Prior to joining the IFC in October 2003 he was Team Leader for Climate Change at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) setting policy for financing clean energy projects in developing countries. He is a widely published author on climate change, energy, and development including a leading environmental law textbook. His degrees are from Cornell University (A.B., Government 1971) and University of Michigan (J.D. and M.P.P. 1974). He was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia (1977) and Japan (1987).
Jean-Charles Hourcade is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is acting as director of the CIRED (Centre International deRecherches sur l’Environnement et le Développement), a laboratory belonging of the CNRS and attached to the E.H.E.S.S. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) , the E.N.P.C. (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussée) and Agroparistech. Since 1990, he played a key role in French social science research coordination for backing up the awareness and negotiating capacities of official and governmental agencies in charge the climate change. He participated in the French negotiating team between COP1 and COP 6. He coordinates an excellence network R2DS in Ile de France around sustainable development issues. He led several EU research projects and was expert for most international agencies about environmental and energy (OECD, UNEP, WB, AIE, UNESCO). He participates actively in the IPCC (which received the Peace Nobel price in 2007) as a convening lead author for the 2nd and 3rd assessment report and lead author for the 4th. He is also a member of the National Commitee for Research in France.
Kseniya Lvovsky is leading the Climate Change team in Environmental Department, overseeing the implementation of the Strategic Framework on Development and Climate Change and coordinating climate change related activities across the World Bank.
Robert B. Cialdini is Regents’ Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University. He has taught at Stanford University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Donald T. Campbell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Social Psychology, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Professor Cialdini’s book Influence: Science and Practice, which was the result of a three-year program of study into the reasons that people comply with requests in everyday settings, has sold over two million copies and appeared in twenty-six languages. Dr.Cialdini regularly blogs at: www.insideinfluence.com.
Aaron Wolf is professor of geography and chair of the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University. His research and teaching focus is on the interaction between water science and water policy, particularly as related to conflict prevention and resolution. He has acted as consultant to the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and several governments on various aspects of transboundary water resources and dispute resolution. He is author of Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River: The Impact of Scarce Water Resources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, (United Nations University Press, 1995), and a co-author of Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water, (Oxford University Press, 1997), Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution, (United Nations University Press, 2000), and Managing and Transforming Water Conflicts (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Wolf, a trained mediator/facilitator, directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation, through which he has offered workshops, facilitations, and mediation in basins throughout the world He coordinates the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database, an electronic compendium of case studies of water conflicts and conflict resolution, international treaties, national compacts, and indigenous methods of water dispute resolution (www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu), and is a co-director of the Universities Partnership on Transboundary Waters.
