Authors
Carl Steinitz is the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of
Landscape Architecture and Planning at Harvard University Graduate
School of Design. He received a Ph.D. degree in City and Regional
Planning from M.I.T., and M. Arch. from M.I.T., and a B. Arch. from
Cornell. His interests include theories and methods of landscape
planning, and visual resource analysis and management. He has directed
several landscape planning studies of highly valued landscapes under
pressures for change. He received the 1996 Distinguished Practitioner
Award from the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USA).
Robert Faris is a Research Associate at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Design. Faris holds a B.A. from the University of
Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy and a Ph.D. in
International Relations from Tufts University. His research interests
focus on the role of natural resources and environmental management in
economic development. Prior work has included studies of
deforestation, coastal zone management, carbon markets, environmental
valuation and project appraisal. He has taught environmental economics
at workshops and international seminars and has conducted applied
policy research in numerous countries in Asia and Latin
America.
Juan Carlos Vargas-Moreno is a doctoral student at the Graduate School
of Design at Harvard University. His research interests focus on the
management of environmental resources and the management and planning
of urban growth in the rural-urban interface in developing countries.
He received a degree in Architecture from the University of Costa
Rica.
Guoping Huang is a Doctor of Design candidate at the Graduate School
of Design at Harvard University. His research interests focus on
landscape planning and urban planning in mountain regions. He received
a Master of Science in landscape architecture and planning from Peking
University, China.
Shiau -Yun Lu is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Design
at Harvard University. Her research interests focus on the indigenous
conservation strategies and the relationship between people and
natural environment. She received her master degree in Landscape
Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Oscar Arizpe C. is Titular Professor of Population Dynamics at the
University of Baja California Sur. He holds a B.A. in Biology from the
National University of Mexico, an M.S, and Ph D. from the National
Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. He has taught Environmental Sciences
related courses and Population Dynamics for more than twenty-five
years. His former research and published papers were developed on
dynamics of marine populations and communities structure. For the last
fifteen years his research interest has been focused on Ecology and
Management of Coastal Systems and he has been involved with the
process of study and management of many
coastal and marine areas. Currently he is the Director of the Ecology
of Coastal Systems Laboratory at the University of Baja California
Sur.
Manuel Angeles is a Professor and Researcher at the Economics
Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur. He
holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from the New School for
Social Research in New York and carried out doctoral studies at
Cambridge University. His research interests are the impact of
globalization on development of small regions, the analysis of
input-output and social accounting matrices and international
economics.
Fausto Santiago is a student in the Ph.D. Program at the Universidad
de Baja California Sur in Ciencias Marinas y Costeras. His work
focuses on the application of Geographic Information Systems and
remote sensing for assessment and management of natural resources and
coastal zone management. He received his B.S. in Engineering in
Instituto Tecnologico del Mar in Guaymas, Sonora and his M.S. in
Management of Ecosystem in arid lands in Faculty of Science,
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California.
Antonina Ivanova is Director of the APEC Studies Center of Baja
California Sur and Professor in economics and researcher at the
Autonomous University of Baja Californa Sur. She is First Degree
Member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico. She holds a
Doctorate in Economics by the National Autonomous University of México
(UNAM), Master in Economic Journalism by the Institute for Higher
Economics Studies of Sofia, Bulgaria and carried out graduated studies
in the Institute of European Integration, Brussels. Between 1999 and
2005 she
was Director of Research and Graduate Studies in the Autonomous
University of Baja California Sur. Her main research interests are
International Economic Relations (Trade and Finance) and International
Regulation of the Trade and Environment Issues.
Alba Gámez received her doctorate in International Relations from the
University of Essex, UK, in 2001. She has taught at Autonomous
University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) since 2000. She has been a
visiting professor in San Diego State University and is member of
Mexico’s System of National Researchers, level I. Her fields of
interest are tourism, regional development and international
economics, on which she has published articles in Foro Internacional,
Revista de Comercio Exterior, Aportes (México), and Revista CIDOB
d’Affers Internacionals (Spain), as well as chapters in books and the
book Economic liberalization and Mexican foreign policy, 1989-1994
(Plaza y Valdes, Mexico). Currently she is the general director of
Academic Support at UABCS.
Thomas Maddock is Professor and Head of the Department of Hydrology
and Water Resources at the University of Arizona and co-director of
the Research Laboratory for Riparian Studies. He has served on the
Hydrology Committee of the Lower Rio Grande Adjudication. He has won
the Joseph Wood Krutch Award for Environmental Service from the Nature
Conservancy and the Udall Fellowship from the Udall Center for Studies
in Public Policy. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the
University of Houston and his M.S. in Applied Mathematics and his Pd.D.
in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University.
Kate Baird is a hydroecologist and Research Associate at the
University of Arizona. She specializes in developing
evapotranspiration, ground and surface water interaction models of
groundwater flow systems. She is the co-author of a new
Evapotranspiration Package for MODFLOW. She received her B.A. in
Biology from Coe College, her M.S. in Ecology from San Diego State
University and her PhD in Hydrology from the University of Arizona.
Prior work included studies on community ecology dynamics and the use
of ecological science to design and implement habitat restoration. She
has published on and taught ecological restoration at workshops and
seminars throughout California. She is currently involved in research
coupling groundwater/surface water models with ecological models to
further improve habitat restoration.
Hoori Ajami is a graduate student at the University of Arizona. Her
research is about the application of Geographic Information
Systems(GIS) in hydrologic modeling. Leonardo Huato is Professor of
Fisheries Ecology at CIBNOR. His work focuses on the dynamics of
exploited populations and management. He received his B. S. in Marine
Biology and Masters in Fisheries Management at the National
Polytechnic Institute, and his Ph. D. in Fisheries Ecology at the
University of British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Flaxman serves as ESRI’s Industry Manager for Design. He is
currently involved in developing the next generation of ESRI’s GIS,
including tools for sketch planning, 3D and multidimensional analysis.
Prior to joining ESRI, Michael was a Lecturer in Landscape Planning at
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His interest is in the
development of tools for scenario-based planning of large landscapes.
He has practiced GIS-based planning in 14 countries, including one
year as a Fulbright fellow in Canada. Michael received his Doctorate
in Design from Harvard in 2001, and also holds a Masters in Community
and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon, and a Bachelor’s
in Biology from Reed College.
Paul Ganster is Professor of History, Director of the Institute for
Regional Studies of the Californias, and Associate Director of the
Office of International Programs at San Diego State University. He is
author of more than fifty articles, book chapters, and edited works on
policy questions of the U.S.-Mexican border region, border
environmental issues, Latin American social history, and comparative
border studies. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his
Ph.D. from UCLA. Ganster is chair of the Good Neighbor Environmental
Board, a federal panel to advise the president and congress on the
U.S.-Mexican border environment.
Angélica Villegas has a B.S. in Economics and a B.A in International
Business with an emphasis in Latin America and Spanish. She is
currently completing a joint master’s degree in Public Administration
and Transborder Governance at San Diego State University and the
Autonomous University of Baja California. Her research interests
include economic and sustainable development in border urban areas,
urban river restoration, cross-border cooperation, harmonization of
binational indicators, and transborder management of natural
resources.
Catalina Lopez is currently working toward a Masters in Advanced
Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation through the Center for
Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, in cooperation with UCSD
Division of Extended Studies and Public Programs. She has a Bachelors
degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur. She was
involved in a project whose objective was to establish a network of 13
marine reserves in the southern Gulf of California, and upon
completion, took on two more that focused on the area surrounding the
state’s capital, La Paz.
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