Michael Hanemann

About

Michael Hanemann is a professor of economics with the W. P. Carey School of Business and a Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Sustainability in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is an environmental economist who works in the areas of water economics and policy, climate change, and non-market valuation. He is also the director of the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy at ASU. Prior to his tenure at ASU, he served as a Chancellor's professor and professor of environmental and resource economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics at the University of California-Berkeley from 1968 to 2011. Professor Hanemann is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards and honors, including honorary Ph.D. degrees from the University of Vigo in Spain and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, as well as fellowships and awards from various professional associations. His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, an M.A. in Public Finance and Decision Theory from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Development Economics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. His research focuses on environmental economics, water economics and policy, climate change, and valuation of non-market resources, contributing significantly to these fields through his academic and policy work.

Selected publications

• The economics impacts of long-run droughts: Challenges, gaps, and way forward

  Journal of Environmental Management · 2023-08-11 · 49 citations

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  Quantifying drought's economic impacts has been key for decision-making to build future strategies and improve the development and implementation of proactive plans. However, climate change is changing drought frequency, intensity, and durability. These changes imply modifications of their economic impact, as longer droughts result in greater cumulative economic losses for water users. Though the longer the drought lasts, other factors also play a crucial role in its economic outcomes, such as I…

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• Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · 2022-04-27 · 45 citations

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  Abstract Since the late 1970s, the term “colonias” (in English) has described low‐income, peri‐urban, and rural subdivisions north of the U.S.‐Mexico border. These communities are in arid and semi‐arid regions—now in a megadrought—and tend to have limited basic infrastructure, including community water service and sanitation. Recent scholarship has demonstrated how colonias residents experience unjust and inequitable dynamics that produce water insecurity in the Global North. In this review, we…

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• Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research

  Field Methods · 2023-09-18 · 22 citations

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  Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align researchers’ and communities’ agendas through focused collaboration. Participant-observation and community-based participatory research have different schol…

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• Applying machine learning to understand water security and water access inequality in underserved colonia communities

  Computers Environment and Urban Systems · 2023-04-18 · 15 citations

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• Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research

  Minerva · 2024-11-17 · 8 citations

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  This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel approach to tackling complex societal problems. Convergence Research seeks to foster high-level integration between diverse disciplines to address multifaceted issues, emphasizing systems thinking and solutions orientation; however, existing l…

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Awards & honors

• Elected to US National Academy of Sciences, 2011
• Honorary Ph.D University of Vigo, Spain, January 2015
• Fellow, American Association of Agricultural Economics, 2010
• Winner, American Agricultural Economics Association Award fo…
• Lifetime Award for Outstanding Achievement, European Associa…

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