Carl Bauer

Dr. Bauer's fields of interest include water rights and water policy at the intersection of law, geography, and political economy. His approach is comparative and interdisciplinary in research, teaching, and outreach. Since the mid 1980s he has focused on issues of water markets, privatization, conflicts, and governance; hydroelectric power, multiple water uses, and river basin development; and the law and political economy of regulation and property rights. In recent years he has turned to the nexus between water and electricity policies, particularly as they affect hydropower, in the current context of climate and environmental change. His regional expertise is in the Western United States and Latin America, especially Chile where he has lived and worked for many years.