Dinar, Ariel

School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
E-mail: adinar@ucr.edu

Dr. Ariel Dinar is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics and Policy, School of Public Policy, and a Professor of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. He received his PhD in 1984 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Dinar’s work has focused on various aspects of economic and strategic behavior of water users associated with negative externalities such as pollution, water scarcity, land subsidence, and climate change, addressing management of water at farm, region, river basin, and internationally. His work always emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. He has spent 15 years at the World Bank, dealing with policy reforms at the country level, introducing institutional, pricing, and organizational reforms, aimed at improving management of water, groundwater, and soil to minimize negative externalities. Dinar’s present research interests encompass groundwater management, mitigating ecosystem damages from land subsidence induced groundwater depletion, economic means of measuring land subsidence impacts on various market and non-market amenities. Dinar is the 2015 Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He is the founder (in 2014) and has been (until the end of 2016) the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Water Economics and Policy.

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