Category: 2025

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Planning for Sustainable Water Management (5/27)

Planning for Sustainable Water Management Water management plans are a go-to tool for making California’s water supply more resilient and sustainable. But what do they actually achieve? This talk will dive into research on the state’s water planning requirements, asking whether California water management plans support sustainable water management, whether planning incentivizes more coordinated management,…Continue Reading Water UCI Colloquium Series: Planning for Sustainable Water Management (5/27)

Water UCI Colloquium Series: Evaluating the Efficacy of Nature-Based Solutions to Urban Water Challenges (1/22)

Evaluating the Efficacy of Nature-Based Solutions to Urban Water Challenges As cities increasingly contend with water quality and quantity challenges exacerbated by the changes in weather patterns and extreme events resulting from climate change, urban planners, designers, policymakers, and environmental managers require information and tools that address these emerging concerns.Nature-based solutions (NBS) such as constructed…Continue Reading Water UCI Colloquium Series: Evaluating the Efficacy of Nature-Based Solutions to Urban Water Challenges (1/22)

Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM

Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM Andrew Ayres is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. His main areas of research include environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics, applied econometrics, and water…Continue Reading Trading Water in California: Past, Present, and Future(s) | 2/25 12-1 PM