Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is Full Professor with the Methods Lab at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Sede Mexico. His research is interdisciplinary by nature, although he considers himself more of a political scientist and human geographer. His research lies at the intersection of space, public policy, environment and society. His research has two major strands. Firstly, he is primarily interested in understanding the factors that contribute to (or hinder) cooperation in natural resource governance. Secondly, he is interested in the design and implementation of a broad range of research methods in social science. In particular, he’s interested in the application of ethnographic fieldwork in the comparative study of vulnerable populations.
He has been Editor for the Americas of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Associate Editor of the Journal of Environmental Sciences and Studies, and Assistant Editor of Policy Design and Practice.
Dr. Pacheco-Vega holds the distinction of National Researcher Level 2 in Mexico’s National Researchers System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, SNI) of the National Council for Humanities, Science, and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACyT).
Current projects include a study of the global politics of sanitation, an analysis of intractable water conflicts in Mexico, an investigation of polycentricity theory (advancing the work done by the late Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom), and its applicability to Mexican water governance, a global study on the politics of privatization and remunicipalization of water supply, a project on the role of transnational private and non-state actors in North American environmental governance and a study of informal waste picking in Latin America.
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is Full Professor with the Methods Lab at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Sede Mexico. His research is interdisciplinary by nature, although he considers himself more of a political scientist and human geographer. His research lies at the intersection of space, public policy, environment and society. His research has two major strands. Firstly, he is primarily interested in understanding the factors that contribute to (or hinder) cooperation in natural resource governance. Secondly, he is interested in the design and implementation of a broad range of research methods in social science. In particular, he's interested in…