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Overview

Ariel Dinar is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research largely focuses on topics related to water resources management and environmental sciences, blending economic and engineering approaches to address pressing global challenges.

The main fields of study for Ariel Dinar include Engineering and Environmental Science. Within these, their subfields of expertise span Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Soil Science.

The core themes of their research work are as follows:

  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access

Ariel Dinar has published in various journals and outlets, frequently contributing to the following publication venues:

  • Water Economics and Policy
  • Water
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Water Resources Management

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ariel Dinar include:

  • "We lose ground: Global assessment of land subsidence impact extent," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Challenges to Water Resource Management: The Role of Economic and Modeling Approaches," 2024, Water

Additional significant publications co-authored that relate to their fields of interest include:

  • "Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity?," 2020, Water Security
  • "Economics of household preferences for water-saving technologies in urban South Africa," 2023, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "The Impacts of Climate Change on Wastewater Treatment Costs: Evidence from the Wastewater Sector in China," 2020, Water

In terms of book publications, Ariel Dinar has contributed to works published by Cambridge University Press and World Scientific lecture notes in economics and policy. Noteworthy books include:

  • "The Economics of Water Resources," 2021, cited 16 times
  • "Lecture Notes in Global-Local Policy Interactions," 2021

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ariel Dinar are:

  • Yacov Tsur (12 publications)
  • Mehdi Nemati (7 publications)
  • Djiby Thiam (5 publications)
  • Encarna Esteban (3 publications)
  • Elena Calvo (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • The distributional impact of climate change on rich and poor countries

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Larry Williams

  • The Institutional Economics of Water: A Cross-Country Analysis of Institutions and Performance

    R. Maria Saleth;Ariel Dinar

  • Will African agriculture survive climate change

    Pradeep Kurukulasuriya;Robert Mendelsohn;Rashid Hassan;James Benhin

  • Climate Change, Agriculture, and Developing Countries: Does Adaptation Matter?

    Ariel Dinar;Robert Mendelsohn

  • Pricing irrigation water: a review of theory and practice

    Robert C. Johansson;Yacov Tsur;Terry L. Roe;Rachid Doukkali

  • Water allocation mechanisms: principles and examples

    Ariel Dinar;Mark W. Rosegrant;Ruth Meinzen-Dick

  • Climate, Water, and Agriculture

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar

  • The political economy of water pricing reforms

    Ariel Dinar

  • The impact of climate change on China's agriculture.

    Jinxia Wang;Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Jikun Huang

  • Markets for Water: Potential And Performance

    K. William Easter;Mark W. Rosegrant;Ariel Dinar

  • Water Allocation Mechanisms: Principles and Examples

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  • Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies

    Ariel Dinar;Rashid Hassan;Robert Mendelsohn;James Benhin

  • Economics of reservoir sedimentation and sustainable management of dams

    A. Palmieri;F. Shah;A. Dinar

  • Institutional changes in global water sector: trends, patterns, and implications ☆

    R.Maria Saleth;Ariel Dinar

  • The effect of development on the climate sensitivity of agriculture

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar;Apurva Sanghi

  • Formal and informal markets for water : institutions, performance, and constraints

    K. William Easter;Mark W. Rosegrant;Ariel Dinar

  • Climate Change and Agriculture

    Robert Mendelsohn;Ariel Dinar

  • Water institutional reforms: theory and practice

    R. Maria Saleth;Ariel Dinar

  • Measuring the Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture

    Ariel Dinar;Robert Mendelsohn;Robert Evenson;Jyoti Parikh

  • The economics and management of water and drainage in agriculture.

    Ariel Dinar;David Zilberman

  • Simulated crop water production functions for several crops when irrigated with saline waters

    J. Letey;Ariel Dinar

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Mendelsohn
Robert Mendelsohn Yale University
Richard E. Howitt
Richard E. Howitt University of California, Davis
Yacov Tsur
Yacov Tsur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Zilberman
David Zilberman University of California, Berkeley
Rashid M. Hassan
Rashid M. Hassan University of Pretoria
Mark W. Rosegrant
Mark W. Rosegrant International Food Policy Research Institute
Terry L. Roe
Terry L. Roe University of Minnesota
Daene C. McKinney
Daene C. McKinney The University of Texas at Austin
Vernon L. Smith
Vernon L. Smith Chapman University
Jinxia Wang
Jinxia Wang Peking University

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