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Water as an Entity
Dr. Erin O'Donnell
For this episode, we sat with Dr. Erin O’Donnell who is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and author of Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance. Dr. O’Donnell is a water law and policy specialist, focusing on water markets, environmental flows, and water governance. She is recognized internationally for her research into the groundbreaking field of legal rights for rivers, as well as the challenges and opportunities these new rights create for protecting rivers. Her PhD examined the role of environmental water managers in Australia and the USA in delivering efficient, effective and legitimate environmental water outcomes in the context of transferable water rights and water markets. She has recently completed a consultancy for The World Bank, on water markets and their role in water security and sustainable development.
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