Robert G. Varady
Deputy Director and Director of Environmental Programs

Robert Varady is Deputy Director and Director of Environmental Programs at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona. He is also Research Professor of Environmental Policy at the Udall Center, Research Professor of Arid Lands Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources. Varady holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from the City College of New York and the Polytechnic University, respectively, and a Ph.D. in modern history from The University of Arizona.

At the Udall Center since 1989, Varady's work mostly has addressed environmental and water-management policy, with an emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border. He spent the 2003-04 academic year on sabbatical in Paris at UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme, studying global water initiatives-a subject on which he is continuing to write.

Recent publications include:

• Global water initiatives: What do the experts think? Report on a survey of leading figures in the 'world of water.' In Impacts of Mega-Conferences on Global Water Development and Management. Springer Verlag (in press, 2008; with M. Iles-Shih).
• Climate, water management, and policy in the San Pedro basin: results of a survey of Mexican stakeholders near the U.S.-Mexico border. Climatic Change (in press; 3 or more coauthors).
• The Upper San Pedro River HELP basin: An informal, binational approach to watershed management. In The Role of Hydrological Information in Water Law and Policy: Current Practice and Future Potential. Kluwer Academic Publishers (in press; 3 or more coauthors).
• Monsoon region climate applications: Integrating climate science with regional planning and policy. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 88, 6 (June 2007; 3 or more coauthors).
• Binational coalition-building: A case study of water-resources management. Journal of the Southwest (2004; with A. Browning-Aiken and D. Moreno).
• ¿Cuanto cuesta? Environmental costs of development in the U.S.-Mexico border region. In Social Costs of Industrial and Urban Growth on the U.S. Mexican Border. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD (2004; with B. J. Morehouse).
• Upper San Pedro basin: Fostering collaborative binational watershed management. Special issue of International Journal of Water Resources Development (2004; coauthored).
• Moving borders from the periphery to the center: River basins, political boundaries, and water management policy. In Water: Science, Policy, and Management. American Geophysical Union (with B. J. Morehouse).
• Public-private partnerships as catalysts for community-based water infrastructure development: The Border WaterWorks program in Texas and New Mexico colonias. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2002; coauthored).
• Whither hazardous materials management in the U.S.-Mexico border region? Environment (2001; with P. Romero Lankao and K. Hankins).
• Nature, water, culture, and livelihood in the Lower Colorado River basin and delta: An overview of issues, policies, and approaches to environmental restoration. Journal of Arid Environments (2001; coauthored).
• Water allocation options for the Upper San Pedro basin: Assessing the social and institutional landscape. Natural Resources Journal (2000; with M. A. Moote and R. Merideth).
• Environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border--Drivers of change and responses of citizens and institutions. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment (1999; 3 or more coauthors).
• Openness, sustainability, and public participation: New designs for transboundary river-basin institutions. Journal of Environment and Development (1999; with L. Milich). 
• Managing transboundary resources: Lessons from river-basin accords. Environment (1998; with L. Milich).

Varady also has directed environmental and agricultural projects in West Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. He has published essays on environmental history and policy, agricultural development, information management, and transportation systems.

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