The Financial and Environmental Risks of In Lieu Fee Programs for Compensatory Mitigation

Martin Doyle is a Professor at Duke University focused on the science and policy of rivers and water in the US.  His work ranges from fluid mechanics and sediment transport to infrastructure finance and federal water policy. In addition to numerous technical articles, book chapters, and law reviews, he is the author of three books: The Source (WW Norton, 2018), a history of America’s rivers; Streams of Revenue (MIT Press, 2021), an analysis of ecosystem markets; and Flows of Capital (MIT Press, in press), an analysis of water infrastructure finance and water affordability in America's cities. In addition to his role as a professor, Doyle has served as a Senior Advisor on issues related to water resources and infrastructure finance in the Department of Interior, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), and the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation, and selected as a Kavli Fellow for the Frontiers of Science from the National Academy of Sciences and to deliver the National Academy of Sciences' Gilbert White Lecture.