EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
• M.Sc., Ocean Law and Policy, London School of Economics .
• B.A., International Relations, University of Pennsylvania .

TEACHING

• Introduction to Microeconomics,[Course Syllabus].

• Property Rights and Collective Action in Natural Resources with Application to Mexico, [Course Materials].

• "Ownership and Control in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector," with Gordon Rausser, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 57:1, 2008. .

• "Retrospective Evaluation of Appliance Price Trends," with Larry Dale, Michael McNeil, James McMahon and K. Sydny Fujita, Energy Policy, Vol. 37, 2009.

• "Collective Choice amd Community Forestry Management in Mexico: An Empirical Analysis," with Gordon Rausser, Journal of Development Studies, 43:3, 2007. .

• "Vertical Integration in the Community Forestry Enterprises of Mexico," in The Community-Managed Forests of Mexico: The Struggle for Equity and Sustainability, David Bray, Leticia Merino-Perez and Deborah Barry, eds., University of Texas Press, 2005, Link .

• "Community Forestry Enterprises as Entrepreneurial Firms: Economic and Institutional perspectives from Mexico," with David Bray, World Development, 33:9, pp. 1579-1543, September 2005. .

• "The Mexican model of community forest management: The role of agrarian policy, forest policy and entrepreneurial organization," with David Bray and Juan Manuel-Torres, Forest Policy and Economics, 8, 2006, pp. 470-484. .

• "New Interdisciplinary Research on Mexico's Common Property Forests: A National Survey," with David Bray, Juan Manuel-Torres and Octavio Magana, Link. .

• "Governance and Resource Management in Mexico's Community Forestry Sector," in Law and Geography: Current Legal Issues 2002, Vol. 5, Jane Holder and Carolyn Harrison, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

• "Community Integration in Mexico's Forest Sector: Survey Data from Oaxaca," with Gordon Rausser. World Forests, Markets and Policies, M. Palo, J. Uusivuori and G. Mery, eds., Kluwer Academic Publisher: The Netherlands. 2001.

• "Fruits of Their Labors: Property, Gender and Tree Planting in Two Zimbabwe Villages," with Louise Fortmann and Nontokozo Nabane, Rural Sociology 62:3, Fall 1997.

• "Defense Expenditures, External Threats and Growth in Developing Countries," with Jonathan Lipow, Journal of Policy Modeling, 17, 1995.

• "The Bering Sea: A Maritime Delimitation Dispute between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.," Ocean Development and International Law, 18:1, 1987.

• "Mexican Common Property Forestry Institutions: Summary Report of a National Survey Project," with Gordon Rausser, for Ford and Hewlett Foundations, Link, 2009.

• "Assessing Transaction Costs of Project-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading ," with Jayant Sathaye, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, January 25, 2007, Link .

• "Production Patterns and Market Networks of Community Forestry Operations in Mexico," in Community-based Forest Enterprises in Tropical Forest Countries: Status and Potential, Report to the International Tropical Timber Organization, 2007, for Forest Trends.

• "Mexican and German Communal Forestry: An Accountability Framework for Comparing Governance," with Chantal Ruppert. Presented at the 12th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Cheltenham, England, July 14-18, 2008. Paper

• "Timber for Development? Investment in the Mexican Social Forestry Sector," with Gordon Rausser.

• "Cross-Scale Linkages in Common-Pool Resource Management: The Evolution of Forest Associations in the Mexican Forest Commons," with Gustavo Garcia-Lopez.

• "Quasi-privatization as an Institutional Response in Mexican Social Forestry," with Lindsey Fransen.

• "Ecological Economies of Scope in Common Property Forest Management"

• "Devolution and Vertical Integration: Governing Mexico's Community Forests," with Juan Manuel Torres Rojo, Octavio Magana Torres, David Barton Bray and Gerardo Segura Warnholz.

• "Environment and Labor Coalitions in Urban Growth Initiatives: Inclusive or Exclusive Development?" with Elizabeht Havice, Cary Laffer and Jeff Romm.

• "Price-Cost Markups in New Appliances: Revisiting Economics in Energy Efficiency Standards Analysis"

• Institutions, Collective Choice and Outcomes: The Allocation of Decisionmaking Control in Mexican Agrarian Forestry Presentation prepared for ``Native Peoples in Mexico and the U.S.: Approaches to Exclusion", San Diego, June 5, 2009. Text of presentation

• Mexican Common Property Forestry: Collective Choice Rules and Outcomes, Workshop on Political Theory, Indiana University, March 23, 2009.

• Comparative Analysis of German and Mexican Common Property Forestry, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2007 (view in slideshow mode for dynamic effect); version presented with Chantal Ruppert at the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Cheltenham, UK, July 14-18, 2009.

• Macroeconomic, political-legal aand institutional frameworks of small and medium forest enterprises: The case of Mexico, International Conference on Small and Medium Forest Enterprise Development for Poverty Reduction, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica, May 2006; resulting collaborative policy brief .

• Concepts and Practices of Community Forestry Enterprises: Economic and Institutional Perspectives from Mexico," with David Bray, International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico 2004.

• Profitability of Community Forestry Operations. Presented March 12, 2004, Mexico City.  Spanish version  English version