How Can We Charge For Excessive Use Of Water?
6 Mar 2017The proposal to charge for excessive use of water under the Water Services Act, 2007 is not credible.
Professor Frank Convery was founding director, and is now Chairman of the UCD Earth Institute in University College Dublin. This institute has been established to mobilise smart science and smart policy to address key resource and environmental challenges facing us in Ireland and globally.
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He is active on a number of EU-wide investigations and bodies, President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
His core idea is that markets will destroy environmental endowments unless they are mobilised to conserve them. This informs his teaching, research and writing on resource and environmental economics issues with particular reference to agriculture, forestry, energy, minerals, land use, urbanisation, environment and development in developing countries.