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WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell Ave.)
Speaker(s)
Robert Glennon
Regents’ Professor and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona
Date/Time: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 / 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Robert Glennon's Brown Bag presentation will feature a discussion of his recent publication with coauthors Peter Culp and Gary Libecap: Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West. Shopping for Water explores the American West’s long tradition of conflict over water and how using market forces to facilitate the movement of water resources and to mitigate the risk of water shortages could contribute to a lasting solution.
Glennon is the author of the highly-acclaimed Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002). His latest book, Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, was published in 2009. Unquenchable received a Rachel Carson Book Award for Reporting on the Environment from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
In 2014, his co-authored report, Shopping for Water: How the Market Can Mitigate Water Shortages in the American West, was published by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution. The report was featured in columns in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Glennon’s other writings include pieces in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Arizona Republic, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Glennon has been a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan, The Diane Rehm Show, C-SPAN2’s Book TV, and numerous National Public Radio shows. He has been a commentator for American Public Media’s Marketplace. He is featured in the recent documentary, Last Call at the Oasis. Glennon has received two National Science Foundation grants and has served as an advisor to governments, law firms, corporations, and NGOs on water law and policy. He is also a regular commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs and for the print media. His speaking schedule has taken him to more than 30 states and to Switzerland, Canada, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia.
Glennon received a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University. He is a member of the bars of Arizona and Massachusetts.