Roy Brouwer

Professor, Department of Economics   Executive Director, Water Institute, University of Waterloo  

Roy Brouwer
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Roy Brouwer

Professor, Department of Economics

Executive Director, Water Institute, University of Waterloo

 

Roy Brouwer is Professor in the Department of Economics and Executive Director of the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute. He obtained his MSc degree in Agricultural Economics from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and his PhD degree in Environmental Economics from the University of East Anglia in the UK. Before joining the University of Waterloo, he was Chair of the Department Environmental Economics at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (2005-2015).

Roy worked 5 years outside academic research as an economist in the Dutch Water Ministry (2000-2004), where he was responsible for the economic underpinning of national and transboundary water policy related to climate change and flood control, urban water management, water quality improvement and river restoration. He has a broad interest in environmental economics to support sustainable development and natural resource management in developed and developing countries. His main research interests are in water resource economics, in particular water resource valuation, hydro-economic modelling and water policy instruments.

He is a member of the External Advisory Board of the Vienna Technical University’s Doctoral Program on Water Resource Systems and the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Water Resources and Economics.

Select Publications

  • Liu, H. and Brouwer, R. (2023). “What is the future of water quality trading?” Contemporary Economic Policy, 41(1): 194-217.
  • Mitra, A., Balasubramanya, S., Brouwer, R. (2022). “Can cash incentives modify groundwater pumping behaviors? Evidence from an experiment in Punjab”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1-27.
  • Garcia-Hernandez, J.A. and Brouwer, R. (2021). “A multiregional input–output optimization model to assess impacts of water supply disruptions under climate change on the Great Lakes economy”. Economic Systems Research, 33(4): 509-535.
  • Brouwer, R. and Neverre, N. (2020). “A global meta-analysis of groundwater quality valuation studies“. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 47(3): 893-932.
  • Amjath-Babua, T.S., Sharmab, B., Brouwer, R., Rasulb, G., Wahide, S.M., Neupaneb, N., Bhattaraif, U., Sieber, S. (2019). “Integrated modelling of the impacts of hydropower projects on the water-food-energy nexus in a transboundary Himalayan river basin”. Applied Energy, 239: 494-503.
  • Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pacual, U., Pinto, R. (2018). “From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services”. Nature Sustainability,1(3): 145-150.

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