Publications

The following are some selected publications in the English language (includes book chapters, journal articles and papers presented in conferences). For Spanish language publications, feel free to contact me.

Wastewater policy:

Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2005) “Institutional Analysis within the Lerma-Chapala Region: New Challenges for Watershed Management”. Paper presented at “Institutional Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making: A Workshop”. Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Jan 28 and 29, 2005

Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2005) “Applying the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework to Wastewater Management Policy in the Lerma-Chapala River Basin”. Paper presented at the UNU-INWEH/UNESCO-MAB-IHP International Workshop “Water and Ecosystems: Water Resources Management in Diverse Ecosystems and Providing for Human Needs”, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. June 14-16, 2005.

North American environmental policy

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 (2006) “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 22nd to 25th, 2006.

Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2005) “Assessing Indirect Environmental Consequences of NAFTA: Transnational Coalition Formation and North American Pollutant Release and Transfer Registries”. A paper presented at the Symposium “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.

Pacheco-Vega, Raul; Carmona-Lara, Maria del Carmen and Vega-Lopez, Obdulia (2001) “The Challenge of Sustainable Development in Mexico”. In: Nemetz, Peter N. (Ed.) “Bringing Business on Board: Sustainable Development and the B-School Curriculum”. Journal of Business Administration Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 715-739.

Environmental economic geography, urban/industrial restructuring:

Pacheco, Raul and Hadi Dowlatabadi (2007) “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

Pacheco, Raul and Dowlatabadi, Hadi (2005) “Environmental regulation and economic spaces: The Mexican leather and footwear industrial districts”. In: LeHeron, Richard and James W. Warrington (Eds.) “New economic spaces, new economic geographies” London, Ashgate. Pp. 154-164.

Pacheco, Raul and Hadi Dowlatabadi (2003) “New Economic Spaces, New Restructuring Drivers: Environmental Regulation In The Mexican Leather And Footwear Industrial Districts”. Presented at the 2003 Residential Conference of the IGU Commission on the Dynamic of Economic Spaces, “New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies?”. Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 11-15, 2003

Transnational environmental social movements:

Pacheco Vega, Raul (2009, in press). “NGOs and Sustainable Development”. In: Helmut Anheier and Stefan Toepler (Eds.) “International Encyclopedia of Civil Society”. New York, NY, Springer Publications.

Pacheco Vega, Raul (2005) “Democracy by proxy: Environmental NGOs and policy change in Mexico” - In Romero, Aldemaro and West, Sarah (Eds.) “Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Springer Verlag. Pp. 231-249.

Harrison, Kathryn , Raul Pacheco-Vega, and Mark Winfield (2003) “The Politics of Information Dissemination: International Institutions, Transnational Coalitions and Policy Change”. Paper presented at the 2003 Fall Conference of the American Public Policy and Management Association, November 6-8, 2003.

Pacheco-Vega, Raul (2002). “Non-state actors and environmental policy change in North America: A case study of the Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes (RETC) in Mexico”. In: Biermann, Frank; Rainer Brohm and Klaus Dingwerth (Eds.) “Global Environmental Change and the Nation State: Proceedings of the 2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.” Potsdam, Alemania. Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research, pp. 352-359.

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.