Author Description
Bonnie Colby is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Arizona, where she has been a faculty member since 1983. Her doctorate is from the University of Wisconsin. Colby’s expertise is in the economics of inter-jurisdictional water disputes, water rights valuation, water transactions and water policy. She has authored over one hundred journal articles and six books, including Braving the Currents: Resolving Confl icts Over the River Basins of the West, Water Markets in Theory and Practice and Negotiating Tribal Water Rights. Dr. Colby advises public agencies, businesses and NGOs throughout the western United States on water acquisitions, water pricing and fi nancial aspects of water settlement agreements.
