David Zilberman is a Professor of Environmental Economics, holds a Robinson Chair in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) and is Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Resource Development at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the faculty at U. C., Berkeley since 1979 and was the Chairman of ARE from 1994 to 1999. He was elected Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1998. Dr. Zilberman's research focuses on the economics of agriculture, natural resources and the environment, and technological change and risk with specialization in water, pest control, and technology adoption and transfer issues. He has more than 100 refereed journal articles in Science, AER, Econometrica, AJAE, and JEEM, among others. Dr. Zilberman has served as a consultant to the EPA, USDA, the World Bank, FAO, and OECD.

Dave Sunding is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and is a Co- Director of the Center for Sustainable Resource Development. He specializes in natural resource policy, especially in the areas of water resource management, pest control, environmental health risk, and technology development and adoption. Dave served as a senior economist on President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers where he had responsibility for natural resource and agricultural policies. He has published widely in agricultural and environmental economics, and is a frequent advisor to government, nonprofit and private entities, including the U.S. Department of the Interior, USDA, USEPA, California Resources Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Enron, Shell, Teledyne, Dow Chemical, Occidental Petroleum, the American Petroleum Institute and the National Association of Homebuilders.

Robin Marsh is the Academic Coordinator of CSRD. She is an agricultural and development economist (Ph.D., Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1991), with 15 years of experience in international development. For the last three years, she worked with the Rural Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, leading a global research and policy program on the dynamic interactions between household livelihood strategies, food security and local institutions. Previously, Dr. Marsh was socio-economist with the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (CGIAR associate center) in Taiwan and Costa Rica. She conducted research in Asia and Central America on the economic and food security benefits of home and market gardening, and evaluated urban horticulture projects in Africa. Robin has also worked on several major issues related to California agriculture and natural resources such as water and drought management, alternative pest management strategies, organic horticulture, farm labor and NAFTA.

Ignacio Chapela (Chapela Lab website)

Mycology and Biodiversity, 

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management                     

 Alain De Janvry 

Agricultural/Development Economics, 

Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics 

           

Louise P. Fortmann 

Rural Sociology/Rudy Grah Chair in Forestry and Sustainable Development,          

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management 

           

Andrew Paul Gutierrez          

Population Ecology/Ecosystem Analysis, 

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management - Ecosystem Science          

           

T. N. Narasimhan 

Hydrogeology, Water-Human Relations, 

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering 

           

Vincent Resh 

Aquatic Ecology, 

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management 

           

Jeffrey M. Romm 

Resource and Environmental Policy, 

Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management 

           

Dave Sunding          

Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy, 

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics 

           

Peggy Lemaux (Lemaux Lab website) 

Cooperative Extension Specialist,

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

           

David Zilberman 

Natural Resource Economics, 

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

 

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