Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030183448)

Regina M. Buono is a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies (CES) at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and a doctoral student in public policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She previously served as the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at CES. Prior to that, she was an associate with McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, LLP, in Austin, Texas, focusing her practice in the areas of water, administrative, and endangered species law. Buono has also worked in various roles with the Texas Legislature and as a consultant to oil and gas companies, designing a habitat credit exchange to achieve compliance with the U.S. Endangered Species Act. She holds bachelor's degrees in international relations, political science, and Spanish from the University of Arkansas, a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law, and an M.Sc. in water science and governance from King's College London.

Chad Staddon is Professor of Resource Economics and Policy in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol in the UK. Originally from Vancouver, Canada he has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries around the world on issues related to resource economics and management, particularly in the forestry and water sectors. In the 20 years since achieving his PhD he has published more than 75 articles and book chapters, given more than 100 conference presentations and guest lectures, reviewed funding applications for most of the major funding organisations and regularly advises governments around the world on water policy issues. His current research interests include the water-energy nexus, the behavioural economics and domestic water consumption and decentralised water systems for underserved communities in the Global South. He is the Director for the International Water Security Network, a global network of centre of excellent in different dimensions of water security research and capacity building.