Join AWRA For It’s Annual Winter Mixer
With one week behind us, it is obviously time to start thinking about something other than your classes!
Join AWRA for its annual Winter Mixer on Thursday, January 30th at from 6:00-8:00pm at the Waterfront Activities Center.
Take advantage of the opportunity to network with members of Seattle’s professional AWRA chapter who will be in attendance, representing a wide array of different water-related professions.
Food & beverages (soft drinks & beer) will be provided!
RSVP here: http://students.washington.edu/awra/2014_mixer_RSVP.html.
At 7:00, Evans faculty member Joe Cook will give a brief talk about the role of economic analysis in water resource management.
So who exactly is Professor Cook?
Joseph Cook joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. His research uses tools from economics to inform environmental and health policy, often in economically-developing countries. His focus is primarily on water and sanitation policy, water resources management, stated preference methods, and vaccine policy.
Wait, but what is Professor Cook actually going to talk about?
The talk will survey some of the ways in which economic logic and tools are used to inform how we allocate and manage scarce water resources. Some of these tools are in wide use while some remain mostly unused in practice. We will finish by discussing an important new proposal for the state – the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan – and how economic analysis is being applied to it.
Hope to see you there!