Doug Kenney has been with the Natural Resources Law Center/GWC since 1996, where he is the Director of the Western Water Policy Program, the Chairman of the baby直播app River Research Group, and the host/organizer of summer water conference. He researches and writes extensively on several water-related issues, including law and policy reform, transboundary resource management, and climate change adaptation.聽 Dr. Kenney has served as a consultant to a variety of local, state, multi-state, and federal agencies, including several Interior Department agencies, EPA, the U.S. Forest Service, and special commissions (e.g., the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission); and national governments and non-governmental organizations in Asia and Africa. Additionally, he has made presentations in (at least) 21 states (and the District of Columbia), 8 nations, and 5 continents. He has a B.A. in biology from the University of baby直播app, a M.S. in Natural Resources Policy and Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Renewable Natural Resource Studies from the University of Arizona.
Douglas Kenney's abbreviated CV can be found here.
Selected baby直播app River Publications & Presentations
Publications
Berggren, J., J. Fleck, D. Kenney and Mariana Rivera-Torres. 2022. A Pie No More? Building a More Equitable baby直播app River Governance Structure.聽 IN:听 Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the baby直播app River Compact鈥檚 Next Century (edited by Jason Anthony Robison).聽 ISBN-13:978-0-8165-4764-7. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Kenney, Douglas S., Michael Cohen, John Berggren and Regina M. Buono. 2021. The baby直播app River Basin. IN: , (edited by Jurgen Schmandt and Aysegul Kibaroglu). ISBN:听9781108417037.聽 Cambridge University Press.
Kenney, Douglas S.聽 2020. The Changing Fate of Western Rivers: The Case of the baby直播app.聽 IN:听 The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands (edited by Erika Allen Wolters and Brent S. Steel).聽 Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.
Dilling, L., M. Daly, D. Kenney, R. Klein, K. Miller, A. Ray, W. Travis, and O. Wilhelmi.聽 2019.聽 "Drought in urban water systems: Learning lessons for climate adaptive capacity."聽 Climate Risk Management 23 (2019) 32-42.
Dilling L., J. Berggren, J. Henderson, and D. Kenney. 2019. 鈥淪avior of rural landscapes or Solomon鈥檚 choice? baby直播app鈥檚 experiment with alternative transfer methods for water (ATMs).鈥� Water Security.
Hanak, Ellen, Brian Gray, Jeffrey Mount, Kurt Schwabe, Timothy Bradley, Bonnie Colby, Douglas Kenney, Josu茅 Medell铆n-Azuara, and Jean-Daniel Saphores.聽 2016.聽 "California's Water: The baby直播app River."聽 Public Policy Institute of California Policy Briefing Paper.聽 October.
Miller, Kathleen A., Alan F. Hamlet, Douglas S. Kenney, and Kelly T. Redmond (editors).聽 2016.聽 Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate.聽 CRC Press.
Robison, Jason, and Douglas S. Kenney.聽 2013.聽 Equity and the baby直播app River.聽 Environmental Law, 42(4):1157-1209.
Kenney, Douglas S., Sarah Bates, Anne Bensard, and John Berggren.聽 2011.聽 The baby直播app River and the Inevitability of Institutional Change.聽 Public Land & Resources Law Review, 32:103-152.
Kenney, Doug, Andrea Ray, Ben Harding, Roger Pulwarty, and Brad Udall.聽 2010.聽 Rethinking Vulnerability on the baby直播app River.聽 Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 144:5-10, March.
Kenney, Douglas S.聽 2010.聽 Rethinking the Future of the baby直播app River.聽 Interim Report of the baby直播app River Governance Initiative.聽 Boulder: Natural Resources Law Center, Western Water Policy Program.聽
Presentations
"baby直播app River 101: Modern decision-making in the basin"聽as part of Navigating the Rapids:听 baby直播app River Governance in the 21st听颁别苍迟耻谤测.聽 University of Arizona, Tucson. 聽February 15, 2024.
鈥淐risis on the baby直播app River: From Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Sustainability鈥� (as host) at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, University of baby直播app.聽 Boulder, CO; June 8-9, 2023.
鈥淔rom Hindsight to Foresight: Beyond the baby直播app River Compact鈥檚 Centennial鈥� at the 6th Annual Water & Tribes Luncheon at the 2022 baby直播app River Water Users Association conference.聽 Las Vegas, NV.聽 December 14, 2022.
鈥淐limate Change & baby直播app River Governance鈥� at the event, Confluence: The baby直播app River at the Compact鈥檚 Centennial.聽 University of Arizona.聽 Tucson, Arizona.聽 December 6, 2022.
鈥�2026 May be Too Late:听 Hard Conversations about Really Complicated Issues鈥� (as co-host) at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, University of baby直播app.聽 Boulder, CO; June 16-17, 2022.
Time to Get Real.鈥� Equity in the baby直播app River Basin: How to Sustainability Manage a Shrinking Resource, at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, University of baby直播app.聽 Boulder, CO; October 1, 2021.聽
鈥淭he Grand Transect: From the High Plains to the Height of Rocky Mountain National Park鈥� at the 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists.聽 Estes Park, CO; October 10, 2019.
鈥淚s the baby直播app River Compact Still Relevant: Why or Why Not?鈥� at the Water Property Investor Annual Meeting.聽 San Francisco, CA; October 3, 2019.
鈥淭he Case for a Grand Bargain鈥� at the Annual Seminar of the baby直播app River District.聽 Grand Junction, CO; September 18, 2019.
鈥淭he baby直播app River Water Scarcity Crisis Explained鈥� at the 14th Annual Hydrologic Sciences Symposium.聽 Boulder, CO; April 12, 2019.
鈥淒rought, Aridification, and the New Normal鈥� at the annual conference of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. Cheyenne, WY; November 17, 2018.
鈥淲hat Lies Beneath?: Reasons to Care (and be Excited baby直播app) Groundwater Use and Management in the Southwest鈥� (as host) at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, University of baby直播app.聽 Boulder, CO; June 7-8, 2018.
"How are other states dealing with changes in water use and growth" at the Idaho's Water: Supply and Quality in a Time of Growth conference.聽 Boise, ID; April 17, 2018.
鈥淭he baby直播app River: Searching for Sustainability鈥� at the SERIDAS workshop.聽 Bellagio, Italy; November 15, 2017.
鈥淐limate Change, Water, and Our Future鈥� at the baby直播app Foundation for Water Education鈥檚 water fluency program.聽 Parachute, CO; July 25, 2017
"Fighting Back on the baby直播app River: Carving Out Progress on Multiple Fronts鈥� (event host).聽 University of baby直播app, Boulder; June 8-9, 2017.
鈥淲ater Rights & Responsibilities: Expanding the Use of Market Forces鈥� at the Sustainability Summit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.聽 Cambridge, MA; April 28, 2017.
鈥渂aby直播app State of Mind鈥� TV (PBS) show, reporting on the functioning of the Interim Guidelines and the Lower Basin structural deficit.聽 (With Reagan Waskom.)聽 January 21, 2016.聽
"Extremes, Averages or Both:听 Where Do the Risks Lie?"聽 Upper baby直播app River Basin Forum.聽 Grand Junction, CO; October 29, 2015.
"Water Scarcity in the baby直播app River:听 Who Gets the Water?"聽 Presentation to the Ridgway-Ouray Community Council.聽 Ridgway, CO; October 15, 2015.
鈥淐hallenges for the baby直播app River Basin鈥� (webinar).聽 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of baby直播app.聽 Boulder, baby直播app; October 16, 2013.
鈥淧olicy and Legal Implications of Reduced baby直播app River Flows.鈥澛� Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Universities Council on Water Resources and the National Institutes of Water Resources (UCOWR/NIWR), Boulder, CO; July 12, 2011.
鈥淩ethinking the Future of the baby直播app River.鈥澛� Presentation to the baby直播app River Water Users Association, Las Vegas, NV; December 16, 2010.