Rees, Judith


Professor Judith Rees  

Department

Position held

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Director

Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy

Director

Experience keywords:

voluntary measures; environmental regulation; regulatory regimes; risk regulation; public sector utility enterprises; privatisation; sustainable development; private sector utility enterprises; climate change adaptation; water sector; institutional adaptation

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Professor Rees's key research interests focus on the governance of environmental resources and risk, including institutional design, public-private partnerships regulation and use of market mechanisms, with specific interest in the water sector.

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6228

Publications

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2008

Rees, Judith A. and Winpenny, James and Hall, Alan W. (2008) Water financing and governance. Global Water Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden

2006

Rees, Judith A. (2006) Urban water and sanitation services; an IWRM approach. Global Water Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden

2001

Bissix, Glyn and Rees, Judith A. (2001) Can strategic ecosystem management succeed in multiagency environments? Ecological applications, 11 (2). pp. 570-583. ISSN 1051-0761

1999

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Baldwin, Robert and Rees, Judith and Spackman, Michael (1999) Where risk society meets the regulatory state: exploring variations in risk regulation regimes. Risk management, 1 (1). pp. 21-34. ISSN 1460-3799

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Spackman, Michael and Rees, Judith and Baldwin, Robert (1999) Explaining risk regulation regimes: exploring the 'minimal feasible response' hypothesis. Health, risk & society, 1 (2). pp. 151-166. ISSN 1369-8575

1986

Rees, Judith A. and Synott, Michael (1986) Are the water authorities an attractive proposition? Public money, 6 (1). pp. 46-51. ISSN 0261-1252

1982

Rees, Judith A. (1982) Profligacy and scarcity: an analysis of water management in Australia. Geoforum, 13 (4). pp. 289-300. ISSN 0016-7185

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Judith Rees was Deputy Director of LSE 1998-2004. She has acted as an advisor to the World Bank on water privatisation, regulation and pricing and to a number of national governments on institutional design and regulatory regimes. She was member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership from 1996 until 2009. Judith has also been chair of the Training and Development Board, and member of the central Council, at the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), from 2004 to 2010. Judith is currently member of the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, the International Scientific Advisory Council (ISAC), and two of The Netherlands' national research programmes on climate change.

 

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