Courses
I teach ESPM 102C-Natural Resource Management.
Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management 102C is designed to provide practical tools to analyze public and private natural resource management decision making. The class covers several topics such as water, agricultural production, forest management, ecosystem services among others. The class uses a wide array of methods to accomplish the analysis, among them are linear regression, linear programming, and input-output models among others.
You can see the Syllabus for ESPM 102C here.
Between Fall 2010 and Fall 2013 I taught Latin American Studies 470 (LTNS 470) at San Francisco State University.
In this class we analyzed current immigration theory and discuss historical, socioeconomic, legal, and political issues of Latin American immigration patterns to the U.S. The class is also designed to examine socioeconomic and political impact of documented and undocumented immigration to Raza communities and mainstream U.S. society.
You can see the Syllabus for LTNS/ETHS 470 here.
Together with Omar Hernandez from the Haas School of Business I taught a class titled Business and Natural Resources: Sustainable Use of Ecosystems (ESPM298) during the Spring of 2013 and Fall of 2014. This class is jointly run by UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and Hass School of Business.
This course introduces sustainability concepts and incorporates them into the broader field of natural resource management. Using economic and ecological concepts students are expected to learn tools, and use them to solve practical natural resource management problems relevant to business and society at large. The course concentrates in four thematic fields: Economic Valuation, Ecosystem Services, Climate Change and Water. In particular, we will relate these topics to a business context. Students are expected to complete assignments distributed in class and based on real and relevant natural resource management problems.
You can see the Syllabus for ESPM 298 here.