Research associates

Dustin Garrick

Dustin Garrick
BA, Government, University of Texas; MPA, Environmental Science and Policy, Columbia University; PhD, University of Arizona

Dustin Garrick is a Fulbright Scholar (2010-11) in CSIRO’s Water for Healthy Country Flagship and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Water Security at the University of Oxford as of May 2011.  His research examines institutional change and performance in water policy responses to freshwater scarcity and climate variability.  In this work, he applies theories of transaction costs economics and property rights to examine policy reforms at the intersection of water markets and river basin governance. His current research examines the design of governance arrangements for environmental water management in the Southern Connected Murray.  This project builds on his PhD research investigating the evolution and performance of water rights and river basin institutions in market-based programs for environmental water recovery in the Pacific Northwest U.S.  His ongoing research advances research frameworks for comparative policy evaluation and seeks to develop a rigorous evidence-base about the factors and design principles necessary, sufficient, and limiting for water security outcomes.  This work seeks to bridge disciplines and the research-practice divide to situate lessons from the Western U.S. and Australia in an international context.

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