Sophie Thoyer et al

Sophie Thoyer is a senior lecturer at the department of agricultural economics at ENSAM, Montpellier. She has a PhD in economics from the University of London and worked as a lecturer for three years in the department of agricultural economics at Wye College. Her main research work focuses on the political economy of agricultural and environmental reforms, with a particular focus on the modelling of negotiation processes both at the local level (water management) and at the international level (WTO, convention on the biological diversity)

ENSAM, Chaire d'Economie,
UMR Lameta,
2 place Pierre Viala,
34060 Montpellier France

e-mail : thoyer@ensam.inra.fr

Sylvie Morardet is a senior researcher in the irrigation department of Cemagref (national research institute on engineering techniques applied to water and forests). She is in charge of the economics unit and works mostly on the economic assessment of irrigation water management reforms in France with linear programming techniques.

Cemagref, unité Irrigation,
UMR Lameta,
361 rue J.-F. Breton,
34033 Montpellier France

e-mail : sylvie.morardet@cemagref.fr

Patrick Rio is a senior researcher at in the department of agricultural economics of INRA (national centre for agricultural research). His main research area includes dynamic systems and differential games applied to the issue of natural resource management and diffuse pollution

NRA-ESR,
UMR Lameta
2 place Pierre Viala,
34060 Montpellier France

e-mail : rio@ensam.inra.fr

Leo Simon

University of California, Department DARE,
Berkeley College of Natural Resources,
101 Giannini Hall Berkeley,
CA 94720 3100
USA

e-mail: simon@are.berkeley.edu

Rachel Goodhue

University of California at Davis,
Agricultural and Resource Economics,
1 Shields Avenue, Davis,
CA 95616
USA

e-mail : goodhue@primal.ucdavis.edu

Gordon Rausser

University of California,
Department DARE,
Berkeley College of Natural Resources,
101 Giannini Hall Berkeley,
CA 94720 3100
USA

e-mail: rausser@nature.berkeley.edu