Publications | Water Economics Research Group at Waterloo

2023

Dugstad, A., Brouwer, R., Grimsrud, K., Kipperberg, G., Lindhjem, H., Navrud, S. (2023). Nature is ours! – Psychological ownership and preferences for wind energy. Energy Economics, 107239.
Brouwer, R., Pinto, R., Garcia Hernandez, J., Li, X., Macrae, M., Rajsic, P., Yang, W., Liu, Y., Anderson, M., & Heyming, L. (2023). Spatial optimization of nutrient reduction measures on agricultural land to improve water quality: A coupled modeling approach. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71(3-4): 329-353.
Martín-Hernández, ER., Garcia Hernandez, J.A., Gangapersad, S., Zhao, S., Omelon, S., Brouwer, R., Vaneeckhaute, C. (2023). Multi-sectorial assessment of phosphorus in Ontario, Canada: Mapping flows and analysis of the potential for recovery and reuse. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 197, 107108.
Eamen, L., Brouwer, R. and Razavi, S. (2023). Testing the predictive power of hydro-economic supply-side Input-Output models under different water availability and economic conditions over time in a transboundary river basin. Water Economics and Policy.
Liu, H. and Brouwer, R. (2023). What is the future of water quality trading? Contemporary Economic Policy, 41(1), 194-217.
Khedr, S., Rehdanz, K., Brouwer, R., Van Beukering, P, Dijkstra, H., Duijndam, S., Okoli, I.C. (2023). Public preferences for marine plastic litter management across Europe. Ecological Economics, 204(A): 107609.
Brouwer, R. (2023). Reconciling theory and practice in higher education water economics courses. Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 5(2): 1-16.
Brouwer, R., Sharmin, D.F., Elliott, S., Liu, J. and Khan, M.R. (2023). Costs and benefits of improving water and sanitation in slums and non-slum neighborhoods in Dhaka, a fast-growing mega-city. Ecological Economics, 207: 107763.
Brouwer, R., Huang, Y., Huizenga, T., Frantzi, S., Le, T., Sandler, J., Dijkstra, H., Van Beukering, P., Costa, E., Garaventa, F., Piazza, V. (2023). Assessing the performance of marine plastics cleanup technologies in Europe and North America. Ocean and Coastal Management, 238, 106555.

2022

Liu, J., Brouwer, R., Sharmin, D.F., Elliott, S., Govia, L. and Lindamood, D. (2022). Industry Perspectives on Water Pollution Management in a Fast Developing Megacity: Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sustainability, 14(24), 16389.
Mitra, A., Balasubramanya, S. and Brouwer, R. (2022). Can cash incentives modify groundwater pumping behaviors? Evidence from an experiment in Punjab. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1– 27.
Brouwer, R., Pinto, R., Dugstad, A., Navrud, S. (2022). The economic value of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis of the Brazilian literature. PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0268425.
Dijkstra, H., van Beukering, P., Brouwer, R. (2022). Marine plastic entrepreneurship; Exploring drivers, barriers and value creation in the blue economy, Sustainable Technology and Entrepreneurship, 100018.
Pan, Z., Brouwer, R., Emelko, M. (2022). Correlating forested green infrastructure to water rates and adverse water quality incidents: A spatial instrumental variable regression model. Forest Policy and Economics, 140: 102756.
Garcia, J., Brouwer, R., Pinto, R. (2022). Estimating the total economic costs of nutrient emission reduction policies to halt eutrophication in the Great Lakes. Water Resources Research, 58(4): e2021WR030772.
Nguyen, L. and Brouwer, R. Fishing for Litter: Creating an economic market for plastic litter in a sustainable fisheries model. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9: 722815.
Eamen, L., Brouwer, R., Razavi, S. Comparing the applicability of hydro-economic modelling approaches in large-scale decision-making for multi-sectoral and multi-regional river basins. Environmental Modelling & Software, 152: 105385.
Liu, H. and Brouwer, R. (2022). Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences. Ecological Economics, 196, 107389.
Basu, N.B., Van Meter, K.J., Byrnes, D.K., Van Cappellen, P., Brouwer, R., Jacobsen, B.H., Jarso, J., Rudolph, D.L., Cunha, M.C., Nelson, N., Bhattacharya, R., Destouni, G., Olsen, S. (2022). Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement. Nature Geoscience, 15, 97–105
Van Oosterhout, L., Dijkstra, H., Van Beukering, P., Rehdanz, K., Khedr, S., Brouwer, R. and Duijndam, S. (2022). Public perceptions of marine plastic litter: A comparative study across European countries and seas, Frontiers in Marine Science, 8: 784829.

2021

Christensen, A., Tsiaras, K., Murawski, J., Hatzonikolakis, Y., She, J., St. John, M., Lips, U., Brouwer, R. (2021). A cross-disciplinary framework for cost-benefit optimization of marine litter cleanup at regional scale. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8: 1607.
Macrae, M., Jarvie, H., Brouwer, R. et al. (2021). One size does not fit all: Towards regional conservation practice guidance to reduce Phosphorus loss risk in the Lake Erie watershed. Journal of Environmental Quality, 50: 529-546.
Frantzi, S., Brouwer, R. et al. (2021). Adoption and diffusion of marine litter clean-up technologies across European seas: Legal, institutional and financial drivers and barriers. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 170: 112611.
Brouwer, R and Pinto, R. (2021). How much are Canadians willing to pay for clean surface and ground water? A meta-analysis of the Canadian non-market valuation literature. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 46(4): 207-228.
Dai, D., Brouwer, R. and Kun, L. (2021). Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration. Ecological Economics, 190: 107186.
Zeng, Q., Brouwer, R., Wang, Y. and Chen, L. (2021). Measuring the incremental impact of Payments for Watershed Services on water quality in a transboundary river basin in China. Ecosystem Services, 51: 101355.
Eamen, L., Brouwer, R., Razavi, S. (2021). Integrated modelling to assess the impacts of water stress in a transboundary river basin: Bridging local-scale water resource operations to a river basin economy. Science of the Total Environment, 800: 149543.
Garcia-Hernandez, J.A. and Brouwer, R. (2021). A multiregional input-output optimization model to assess the economic impacts of water supply disruptions in the Great Lakes Basin. Economic Systems Research.
Daneshi, A., Brouwer, R. Najafinejad, A., Panahi, M., Zarandian, A. and Maghsood, F.F. (2021). Modelling the impacts of climate and land use change on water security in a semi-arid forested watershed using InVEST. Journal of Hydrology, 593: 125621.
Lindamood, D., Armitage, D., Sharmin, D.F., Brouwer, R., Elliott, S.J., Liu, J.A., Khan, M. (2021). Assessing the capacity for adaptation and collaboration in the context of freshwater pollution management in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Environmental Science and Policy, 120: 99-107.
Dijkstra, H., van Beukering, P. and Brouwer, R. (2021). In the business of dirty oceans: Overview of startups and entrepreneurs managing marine plastic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 162: 111880.
Pan, Z. and Brouwer, R. (2021). A Theoretical Modeling Framework to Support Investment Decisions in Green and Grey Infrastructure under Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Forest Economics, 36(4): 407-440.

2020

Brouwer, R. and Tarfasa, S. (2020). Testing hypothetical bias in a framed field experiment. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68(3): 259-373.
Brouwer, R. and Neverre, N. (2020). A global meta-analysis of groundwater quality valuation studies. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 47(3): 893-932.
Eamen, L., Brouwer, R. and Razavi, S. (2020). The economic impacts of water supply restrictions due to climate and policy change: a transboundary river basin supply-side input-output analysis. Ecological Economics, 172: 106532.
Nobel, A., Lizin, S., Brouwer, R., Bruns, S., Stern, D. and Malina, R. (2020). Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature. Environmental Research Letters, 15: 073003.
Logar, I., Brouwer, R. and Campbell, D. (2020). Does attribute order influence attribute information processing in discrete choice experiments? Resource and Energy Economics, 60: 101164.
Razavi, S., Gober, P., Maier, H.R., Brouwer, R. and Wheater, H. (2020). Anthropocene flooding: Challenges for science and society. Hydrological Processes, 34: 1996-2000.
Dijkstra, H., Beukering, P. and Brouwer, R. (2020). Business models and sustainable plastic management: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Cleaner Production, 258, 120967,
Schaafsma, M. and Brouwer, R. (2020). Substitution effects in spatially explicit discrete choice experiments. Environmental and Resource Economics 75(2): 323-349.
Zhang, Q. and Brouwer, R. (2020). Is China affected by the Resource Curse? A critical review of the Chinese literature. Journal of Policy Modeling, 42(1): 133-152.

2019

Alcon, F., Tapsuwan, S., Brouwer, R., Yunes, M., Mounzer, O. and de-Miguel, M.D. (2019). Modelling farmer choices for water security measures in the Litana river basin in Lebanon. Science of the Total Environment, 647: 37-46.
Amjath-Babua, T.S., Sharmab, B., Brouwer, R., Rasulb, G., Wahide, S.M., Neupaneb, N., Bhattaraif, U. and Sieber, S. (2019). Integrated modelling of the impacts of hydropower projects on the water-food-energy nexus in a transboundary Himalayan river basin. Applied Energy, 239: 494-503.
Glatt, M., Brouwer, R., Logar, I. (2019). Combining risk attitudes in a lottery game and flood risk protection decisions in a discrete choice experiment. Environmental and resource economics 74(4): 1533-1562.
Kahsay, T., Arjoon, D., Kuik, O., Brouwer, R., Tilmant, A., van der Zaag, P. (2019). A hybrid partial and general equilibrium modeling approach to assess the hydro-economic impacts of large dams–the case of the Eastern Nile River basin. Environmental Modelling and Software, 117: 76-88.
Logar, I., Brouwer, R. and Paillex, A. (2019). Do the societal benefits of river restoration outweigh their costs? A cost-benefit analysis. Journal of Environmental Management, 232: 1075-1085.
Mattmann, M., Logar, I. and Brouwer, R. (2019). Choice certainty, consistency, and monotonicity in discrete choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8(2): 109-127.
Ovando P. and Brouwer, R. (2019). A review of economic approaches modeling the complex interactions between forest management and watershed services. Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, 100: 164-176.
Pinto R., Antunes P., Blumentrath S., Brouwer R., Clemente P., and Santos R. (2019). Spatial modelling of biodiversity conservation priorities in Portugal’s Montado ecosystem using Marxan with Zones. Environmental Conservation, 46(4): 251-260.

2018

Brouwer, R., Miraldo Ordens, C., Pinto, C. and Condesso de Melo, M.T. (2018). Economic valuation of groundwater protection using a groundwater quality ladder based on chemical threshold levels. Ecological Indicators, 88: 292-304.
Kahsay, T., Kuik, O., Brouwer, R., van der Zaag, P. (2018). The transboundary impacts of trade liberalization and climate change on the Nile Basin economies and water resource availability. Water Resources Management, 32(3): 935-947.
Logar, I. and Brouwer, R. (2018). Substitution effects and spatial preference heterogeneity in single- and multiple-site choice experiments. Land Economics 94(2): 302-322.
Phan, D.T.H., Brouwer, R., Long, H.P., Davidson, M.D. (2018). Do payments for forest ecosystem services generate double dividends? An integrated impact assessment of Vietnam’s PES program. PLoS ONE, 13(8): e0200881.
Wunder, S., Brouwer, R., Engel, S., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Muradian, R., Pacual, U., Pinto, R. (2018). From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services. Nature Sustainability, 1: 145-150.
Yuzva, K., Botzen, W., Brouwer, R., Aerts, J.A. (2018). A global review of the impact of basis risk on the functioning of and demand for index insurance. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 28: 845-853.

2017

Ansink, E., Tesfaye, A., Bouma, J., Brouwer, R. (2017). Cooperation in watershed management: A field experiment on location, trust, and enforcement. Resource and Energy Economics, 50: 91-104.
Brouwer, R. and Sheremet, O. (2017). The economic value of river restoration. Water Resources and Economics, 17: 1-8.
Brouwer, R., Hadzhiyska, D., Ioakeimidis, C., Ouderdorp, H. (2017). The social costs of marine litter along European coasts. Ocean & Coastal Management, 138: 38-49.
Carr, G., Blanch, A.R., Blaschke, A.P., Brouwer, R., Bucher, C., Farnleitner, A.H., Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Loucks, D.P., Morgenroth, E., Parajka, J., Pfeifer, N., Rechberger, H., Wagner, W., Zessner, M., Blöschl, G. (2017). Emerging outcomes from an interdisciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems. Water Policy, wp2017054;
Kahsay, T., Kuik, O., Brouwer, R., van der Zaag, P. (2017). The economy-wide impacts of climate change and irrigation development in the Nile basin: A computable General Equilibrium approach. Climate Change Economics, 8(1): 1750004-1-30
Levin-Koopman, J., Kuik, O., Tol, R. and Brouwer, R. (2017). The potential of water markets to allocate water between industry, agriculture, and public water utilities as an adaptation mechanism to climate change. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 22(2): 325.
Logar, I. and Brouwer, R. (2017). The effect of risk communication on choice behavior and choice certainty. Water Resources and Economics, 18: 34-50.
Nikouei, A. and Brouwer, R. (2017). Welfare values of sustained urban water flows for recreational and cultural amenities under climate change. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 8(1): 13-25.
Tarfasa, S., Brouwer, R., Sheremet, O., Bouma, J. (2017). Informing water harvesting technology contract design using choice experiments. Water Resources Research, 53(10): 8211–8225.