Centre for Water and Development

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Centre for Water and Development Professorial Research Associate
Department
Centre for Water and Development
Email address
jn29@soas.ac.uk

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James E. Nickum, a resident of Japan with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California (Berkeley), is currently Fellow of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Water International since 2007.

He is a widely published institutional economist specializing in various facets of water and environmental governance, especially but not exclusively in China, which he visited for the first time in 1974.  His current research interests are on  the water economies of global cities and the implications of populism and new technologies on water governance.

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  1. Patricia Wouters, Huiping Chen and James E. Nickum, eds., Transboundary Water Cooperation: Principles, Practice and Prospects for China and its Neighbours.  London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
  2. Jia Shaofeng, Zhang Liheng, Cao Yue, Yan Huayun, Li Jianping and James Nickum, eds. Zhongguo shuiquan jinxingshi: Geermu anli jianjiu (When water rights are implemented in China: The case of Golmud). (Beijing: Shuili shuidian chubanshe, 2012). 151 pp.
  3. James E. Nickum and Chisa Ogura, Agricultural Water Pricing: Japan and Korea, background report supporting the OECD Study, Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture, available at http://www.oecd.org/document/55/0,3343,en_2649_37401_44753399_1_1_1_1,00.html#obtain as of 16 March 2010.  34 pp.
  4. Ken-Ichi Abe and James E. Nickum, eds., Good Earths: Regional and Historical Insights into China’s Environment.  (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, and Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2009). 292 pp.
  5. James E. Nickum and Kenji Oya, eds., Environmental Management, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Regional Development.  New Regional Development Paradigms series, Volume 4. (New York: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001). 191 pp.
  6. James E. Nickum, Dam Lies and Other Statistics: Taking the Measure of Irrigation in China, 1931-91. (East-West Center Occasional Papers: Environment Series No. 18, January 1995). 149 pp.
  7. James E. Nickum and K. William Easter, eds., Metropolitan Water Use Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific (Boulder:  Westview Press, 1994), 211 pp.
  8. Asit Biswas, Zuo Dakang, James E. Nickum and Liu Changming, eds., Long Distance Water Transfer in China (Dublin: Tycooly International, 1983), 417 pp. Chinese edition: Zuo Dakang, Asit Biswas, Liu Changming and James E. Nickum, eds., Yuan juli diaoshui (Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe, 1983), 241 pp.
  9. James E. Nickum, Water Management Organization in the People's Republic of China  (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1981) (editor), 269 pp.
  10. Henning Bjornlund, James E. Nickum and Raya Marina Stephan, eds., Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance.  Special Issue of Water International 43(3), April 2018, 159 pp.

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