Media coverage

I’m often asked to provide my specialized opinion on matters associated with my research on urban sustainability, water governance, transnational mobilizations and environmental policy in North America (with a special focus on Mexico) or my teaching in environmental politics and public policy. Below are selected instances of media coverage of my work.

Interviewed for The Ubyssey. “Tweeting from the Podium: Social Media in the Classroom“. I explained my approach to implementing social media in the classroom in my teaching with the Department of Political Science at The University of British Columbia.

Political science professor Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega is one of many faculty members who have introduced social media as part of the class experience. Students tweet questions, comment on his class blog and contribute to discussion topics on his Facebook page.

Interviewed for BackBone Magazine on emerging technologies for water management. I commented on water quality, water quantity and government regulations’ influence on technology adoption.

Pacheco-Vega said two areas where technology is having an impact on water conservation and management are metering and consumption reduction. “One of the biggest problems is water metering. We don’t actually know how much water we have in aquifers, but now we are starting to see more accurate methods of metering water.”

Quoted in Granville Magazine’s feature “The E-Word” authored by Adam Gaumont (providing commentary on the EcoDensity initiative and the need to analyze a variety of elements that are often overlooked when discussing urban sustainability and density)

While these low-impact housing types promise to inject some much-needed housing units into the market, Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, a local urban sustainability expert, says that simply adding rental stock won’t be enough for the City to keep its related promise of improved affordability.