David Zetland researches the political-economy of water, the environment and the commons. As a university lecturer at Leiden University College, he teaches courses on economics, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the commons.

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Introduction:

David Zetland is a university lecturer at Leiden University College, where he teaches classes on economics, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the commons. He received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2008, and held positions in the US, Netherlands, Canada and  Saudi Arabia before coming to LUC. He blogs at The One-handed Economist, has written four books (The End of Abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity (2011), Living with Water Scarcity (2022), The Best of Aguanomics (2018), The Little Book of the Commons (2022)) and edited and published two collections of climate disruption stories (Life plus 2 Meters). David gives talks to public, professional and academic audiences and writes for popular and academic outlets. David lives in Amsterdam.

Academic Expertise:

• The Commons
• Development Economics
• Environmental Economics
• Political Economy
• Social Entrepeneurship

Courses:

• Environmental Economics
• Real Donut Economics
• Entrepreneurs and Markets
• Applied Microeconomics
• Sharing Scarcity: The Commons
• Sharing Scarcity: Water

Publications