The price and value of water: An economic review

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Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT+9:30)
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R. Quentin Grafton, FASSA, is Professor of Economics, Australian Laureate Fellow, Convenor of the Water Justice Hub, and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. In this picture Professor Grafton stands beside Lake Burley Griffin on 5 February, 2024 (image: Jamie Kidston/ANU).

Abstract

The price and value of water: An economic review

Quentin Grafton

Australian National University

Associated Cambridge Prisms: Water article

R. Q. Grafton et al.(2023)The Price and Value of Water: An Economic Review.Cambridge Prisms: Water

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Professor Quentin Grafton FASSA

Professor and Australian Laureate Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance. He is an Australian Laureate Fellow, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a former President (2017-18) of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) and a Distinguished Fellow of AARES. In 2022, he was appointed a Lead Expert and Commissioner of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that will provide a Provocation Report to the UN 2023 Water Conference in March 2023.

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