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The University of British Columbia
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- The University of British Columbia
- Department of Political Science
Office: Buchanan C-311 (1866 Main Mall)
Phone Number: 604-827-5127
Email: pachecoh@interchange.ubc.ca
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega (PhD,The University of British Columbia) is a Vancouver-based researcher, educator and consultant in environmental politics and policy. He has conducted research in the field of environmental public policy and politics for over 10 years. From January 2010 to February 2011, he was the Director for Western Canada of the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP), and their Lead Researcher, Water and Climate Change.
Dr. Pacheco-Vega has conducted independent research on wastewater governance, comparative environmental policy in North America, urban sustainability and environmental NGO mobilizations. He is a member of the Consultative Group for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC)’ North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry. He is on the editorial board of the international, peer-reviewed journal Water International and has served on various local and national committees on environmental issues in Mexico.
His main teaching interests include environmental politics, public policy, water governance, urban and economic geography and comparative and global environmental politics. His geographical area of expertise is North America (Canada, US, Mexico) and his methodological tools include quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as some expertise in geographical information systems (GIS). Dr. Pacheco-Vega’s research is broad and interdisciplinary in theoretical frameworks, empirical research methods and uses a policy-oriented approach to environmental problem-solving.
Current and recently completed research projects include:
You can learn more about my research on my website www.raulpacheco.org
In the academic year 2010-2011, Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is teaching 3 courses:
POLI 351 - Environmental Policy and Politics (Term 1: Mon, Wed, 16:00-17:30)
POLI 350A - Public Policy (Term 2: Tue, Thu, 12:30-14:00)
POLI 375A - Global Environmental Politics (Term 2: Tue, Thu, 15:30-17:00)
Syllabi (September 2010- April 2011 courses)
The syllabus for POLI 351 Environmental Policy and Politics (Winter 2010) can be found here.
The syllabus for POLI 350A Public Policy (Spring 2011) can be found here.
The syllabus for POLI 375A Global Environmental Politics (Spring 2011) can be found here.
The syllabus for POLI 351 Environmental Policy and Politics (Summer 2011) can be found here..
While Dr. Pacheco-Vega is currently not supervising graduate students at UBC, he has previously supervised undergraduate honors theses and graduate students at other universities worldwide on a variety of topics associated with cross-national environmental policy analysis. He is currently collaborating on several research pieces with current and former students.
Pacheco-Vega, Raul; Weibust, Inger and Fox, Jonathan (2010) Using the Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters (CSEM) to the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (NACEC): Preliminary results of a field-based examination. In: Ismael Barajas, Noé Arón Fuentes-Flores, Román Villicaña, Jorge Schiavon-Uriegas, Blanca Torres-Ramírez and José Luis Valdés-Ugalde (Eds.) Senderos de integración silenciosa en América del Norte. UNAM-PIERAN, El Colegio de México. In press.
Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2009) NGOs and Sustainable Development. In: Anheier, Helmut and Toepfler, Stefan (Eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Civil Society. New York, NY. Springer Publications. Pp. 1049-1054.
Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2007). Mexico's Pollutant Release Registry: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead. In: J. Fox, L. Haight, H. Hofbauer and T. Sánchez Andrade. (Eds.) Mexico's Right-To-Know Reforms:: Civil Society Perspectives. Washington, DC - Ciudad de México, FUNDAR/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 270-275.
Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2005) Democracy by Proxy: Environmental NGOs and Policy Change in Mexico. In: Aldemaro Romero and Sarah West (Eds.) Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Springer Publishers: 231-249.
Pacheco, Raul and Hadi Dowlatabadi (2005) “Environmental regulation and economic spaces: The Mexican leather and footwear industrial districts” In: LeHeron, Richard and JW Harrington (Eds.) “New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies”. London, Ashgate.
Pacheco, Raul and Peter N. Nemetz (2001) Business-Not-As-Usual: Alternative policy instruments for environmental management. In: Proceedings of the 5th IRE Workshop "Addressing the Knowledge Crisis in Water and Energy: Linking Local and Global Communities", Institute for Resources and Environment, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
During the summer I will be conducting field research and teaching POLI 351 Environmental Politics and Policy. I suspect I will not be doing keynote speeches nor presenting at conferences until the fall of 2011.
The promises and pitfalls of lesson drawing in water governance research: What can we learn about watershed management from river basin councils and organizations in Mexico. Presented at the 2011 meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Calgary, AB, Canada, May 30th-June 2nd, 2011.
The politics of garbage in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities. Presented at Waste - The Social Context. People, Persuasions and Payoffs. Edmonton, AB, Canada. May 2nd and 3rd, 2011.
The social context of wastewater governance: A case study in the Lerma-Chapala river basin, Mexico. Presented at Waste - The Social Context. People, Persuasions and Payoffs. Edmonton, AB, Canada. May 2nd and 3rd, 2011.
w. Hisham Zerriffi (2011) The faces of Janus: Scrutinizing modern conceptualizations of water poverty and energy poverty. Paper presented at the 2011 Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA. April 13, 2011.
The urban geography of wastewater in Mexico: A comparative analysis within the Lerma-Chapala river basin. Presented at the 2011 meeting of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. March 12th, 2011.
Understanding industrial and urban restructuring trajectories using firm demographics as a methodological tool: A case study of the Mexican leather and footwear clusters. Presented at the 2011 meeting of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. March 12th, 2011.
Are river basin councils the right model of water and wastewater governance in Mexico? Lessons from a case study in the Lerma-Chapala watershed. - Invited seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, October 28th, 2010. Victoria, BC., Canada.
Modeling the behaviour of participants in wocial networking sites: Insights from transnational environmental movements - Invited talk at Social Media Camp Victoria, October 3rd, 2010. Victoria, BC., Canada.
Strengthening wastewater governance: The role of watershed councils. Presented at the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Meeting, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Congress, June 2008, Vancouver, Canada
Firm demographics as an analytical lens to understand the effect of multiple stressors on urban/industrial restructuring in Mexico Presented at the Environmental Studies Association of Canada Meeting, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Congress,June 2008, Vancouver, Canada
w HadiDowlatabadi. Changing industrial and urban landscapes: a comparative view of restructuring processes in two Mexican cities (León and Guadalajara). Presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2007, “Bridging Communities: Making Public Knowledge – Making Knowledge Public”, May 29th– June 2, 2007, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Accountability and transparency in international environmental policy: The experience of the North American pollutant release and transfer registries. A paper presented at the International Studies Association 2006 Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 22ndto 25th,2006.
Applying the Institutional Analysis an Development Framework to wastewater management policy in the Lerma-Chapala river basin. Presented at the UNU-INWEH/UNESCO-MAB-IHP InternationalWorkshop “Water and Ecosystems: Water Resources Management in Diverse Ecosystems and Providing for Human Needs”, Hamilton,Ontario, Canada. June 14-16, 2005.
Assessing indirect environmental consequences of NAFTA: Transnational coalition formation and North American pollutant release and transfer registries. A paper presented at theSymposium “Trading Justice: NAFTA’s New Links and Conflicts” Center for Research on Women & The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA. March 25-27, 2005.
Institutional Analysis within the Lerma-Chapala Region: New challenges for watershed management. Presented at the conference “Institutional Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making: A Workshop”. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Jan 28 and 29, 2005
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