Dr Julia Talbot-Jones
Julia Talbot-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
She has undergraduate degrees in ecology and zoology, and a first class Honours degree in natural resource management, both from Massey University, New Zealand, as well as a GradDip in economics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She received an MA in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship and a PhD in economics (Crawford School of Public Policy) from the Australian National University.
Her research investigates how institutions can be designed, or evolve, to solve environmental and natural resource problems over time, particularly in the context of freshwater and at the nexus of biodiversity and climate. Whilst at Clare Hall she is exploring the economics of environmental policy when preferences are treated as endogenous.
Julia is an Affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, and of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, and a Principal Investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems
At Clare Hall, Julia is accompanied by her partner Ryan Hinz, a social worker and mental health practitioner, and child, Theo.
Select publications
- Grafton, R.Q., Fanaian, S., Horne, J., Katic, P., Ringler, C., Robin, L., Talbot-Jones, J., Wheeler, S., Wyrwoll, P.,….and Williams, J. (2024). Rethinking responses to the world’s water crisis. Nature: Sustainability. [Under review].
- Talbot-Jones, J. and Saglam, Y. (2023). Water Clubs: A new model for managing freshwater in small catchments. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 095004.
- Garrick, D., Balasubramanya, S., Beresford, M., Wutich, A. Gilson, G.G., Jorgensen, I., Brozovic, N., Cox, M., Dai, X., Erfurth, S., Rimsaite, R. Svensson, J., Talbot-Jones, J. Unnikrishnan, H. Wight, C., Villamayor-Tomas, S. and Vazquez Mendoza, K. (2023). A systems perspective on water markets: Barriers, bright spots, and building blocks for the next generation. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3), 031001.
- Talbot-Jones, J. and Bennett, J. (2019). Toward a property rights theory of legal rights for rivers. Ecological Economics, 164 [online].
- O’Donnell, E. and Talbot-Jones, J. (2018). Creating legal rights for rivers: Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India. Ecology and Society, 23(1): 7 [online].
