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ROBIN MARSH
Academic Coordinator,
Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Co-Director
Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program
Robin Marsh is the Academic Coordinator
of CSRD. She is an agricultural and development economist (Ph.D.,
Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1991), with 25
years of experience in international development. At UC Berkeley,
Dr. Marsh helped to launch and develop the Beahrs ELP into a
thriving international training and outreach program. She also
co-leads with David Zilberman the Population and Environment
Program at CSRD, with support from the Packard and Hewlett Foundations.
In addition to population-environment linkages, Marsh works
on bridging the environment and agricultural divide through
support of ecoagriculture and payment for environmental services
initiatives. Before coming to Berkeley in 2000, Dr. Marsh worked
with the Rural Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
in Rome, leading a global research program on the 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
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LESLIE CORRELL
Program Representative
Leslie
Correll assists Robin Marsh and manages the logistics of the summer certificate course and the year-round activities of the Beahrs ELP and CSRD. She is a third generation environmentalist whose family has worked for social, economic, and environ-mental justice in the world for many years.
Leslie has been an award-winning professional artist and teacher, ran her own socially-responsible corporation, and has consulted in product design, development, and marketing in connection with traditional crafts in several countries. Her personal research and teaching centers on fiber arts and their social and economic importance to indigenous communities. She designs graphics, including brochure covers, fliers, etc. for CSRD/Beahrs ELP.She enjoys gardening and dancing flamenco and "salsa".
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DAVID ZILBERMAN
Co-Director,
Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program,
Co-Director,
Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Professor, Natural Resource Economics,
Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
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.
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TRICIA YANG
Program Assistant
As the Beahrs ELP Program Assistant,
Tricia's primary responsibility is to help co-ordinate the ELP
Alumni Network. Tricia is a second year graduate student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
Prior to graduate school, Tricia worked primarily as a fundraiser in the non-profit sector in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked in the fields of education, criminal justice and the arts, securing public and private support for community development initiatives. During the summer of 2005, Tricia interned at Deloitte Consulting wherein she helped train California county workers utilizing the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System on new processes and policies on welfare benefit determination across the state.
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CHRIS JONES
Program Consultant
As the former Program Assistant to the Beahrs ELP Program,
Chris continues to provide support for Alumni Network initiatives. Chris is a graduate student in the departments
of Energy & Resources and Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley.
His research is related to climate change and issues of international
equity and trade. He is currently developing on-line teaching
tools to help individuals estimate their climate impact and
to make climate change science more accessible to the general
public. His previous experience includes several years with
international development and human rights organizations, in
addition to co-founding a sustainable forestry enterprise in
the Brazilian Amazon.
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MIGUEL ALTIERI
Agroecology & Biological Control, UCB
IGNACIO CHAPELA
Mycology & Biodiversity
ANDREW PAUL GUTIERREZ
Population Ecology/Ecosystems Analysis, UCB
DANIEL KAMMEN
Renewable Energy, UCB
DAVID LEVINE
Labor Economics/Organizational Behavior, UCB
ADINA MERENLENDER
Ecology, UCB
ISHA RAY
Water/Common Property Management, UCB
VINCENT H. RESH
Aquatic Ecology, UCB
BILL SONNENSCHEIN
Leadership/Communication, UCB
STEVE VOSTI
Agricultural/Natural Resource Policy, UCD
CARL WILMSEN
Anthropology/Community Forestry, UCB
DAVID ZILBERMAN
Professor
Natural Resource Economics, UCB
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TONY BARCLAY
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Development Alternatives, Inc.
Tony Barclay is President and CEO of Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI), an employee-owned consulting firm. With more than 500 employees currently working in 32 countries, and $75 million in annual revenues, DAI is an industry leader with a reputation for creative ideas, technical excellence, and outstanding project management. DAI's practice areas include environmental policy, forestry, water resource management, economics, agriculture, finance and banking, small enterprise development, and public sector management. Founded in 1970, DAI now has subsidiary companies in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and maintains corporate offices in Thailand, China, Brazil, and Egypt.
Before he joined DAI in
1977, Tony lived and worked in Kenya for seven years.
He served there as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and returned
to do intensive field research as a Fulbright Fellow,
before earning a Ph.D. in applied anthropology at Columbia
University. He has drawn on his social science background
in numerous consulting assignments for DAI, with a special
concentration on Sub-Saharan Africa. Tony says that
the most rewarding part of his current role is the opportunity
to visit and interact with DAI staff and clients in
every corner of the world: their work is highly challenging,
and a wonderful resource for building the firm's intellectual
capital.
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ANDREW P. GUTIERREZ
Professor, Division of Ecosystem Sciences
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UCB.
Professor Gutierrez has been a
member of the faculty at UC Berkeley since 1972. He
is the chair of an Advisory Committee for the Development
and Implementation of a Statewide Integrated Pest Management
Program in California. His research emphasizes tritrophic
(plant-herbivore-natural enemy) interactions as influenced
by abiotic factors (edaphic and weather). His research
group uses mathematical and computer simulation models
to investigate these trophic interactions, and are based
detailed field and laboratory data. Their models bridge
the gap between purely theoretical models and biologically
rich simulation models. His publications include Applied
Population Ecology: A Supply-Demand Approach (1996,
John Wiley and Sons) and Ecological Entomology (1998,
John Wiley and Sons).
His models have been used to analyze
diverse agro- and other ecosystems world wide, to assess
the theory and practice of biological control, to solve
practical problems in crop production and pest management
(CP/IPM), and to explore economic and theoretical issues.
Among the multitrophic systems models developed are
those for alfalfa, apple, cassava, coffee, common bean,
cotton, grape, rice and agroforestry. This research
relies heavily on interdisciplinary cooperative efforts
with research groups worldwide. Analysis of the theoretical
bases of our supply/demand model has received considerable
recent attention.
Professor Gutierrez's locust
research is part of an UNDP/FAO/ICIPE/IIBC international
effort to assess the outbreak potential of this important
migratory pest. His tsetse work is a cooperative effort
with ICIPE/Kenya-Ethiopia and CISP (an Italian foreign
aid group). The locust work is part of a humanitarian
effort that seeks to predict the potential for outbreaks
of locust in North Africa and the Middle-East -- an
area twice as large as the continental United States
VINCENT RESH
Professor & Entomologist,
Division of Insect Biology, Department of Environmental
Science, Policy & Management, UCB
Professor Resh has been a professor
at the UC Berkeley since 1975. He received his BA in
Biology and Philosophy from Georgetown University in
1967 and his PhD from the University of Louisville (Kentucky)
in water resources in 1973. His research is in aquatic
ecology, and particularly in the area of water pollution
assessment and river restoration. He is the author of
nearly 250 articles and books on this topic. He is director
of UC Berkeley's Gump Research Station at Moorea, French
Polynesia and is chief advisor for ecological issues
and aquatic habitat sustainability to eleven West African
nations participating in the World Bank/World Health
Organization's River Blindness Control Program. Professor
Resh received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching
Award in 1995.
His research program follows three
lines: (1) studies of the evolutionary biology and ecology
of aquatic insects, crustaceans, and molluscs in stream
and river habitats; (2) the evaluation of habitat manipulations
for use in environmental restoration or enhancement;
(3) and the development of techniques for the biological
assessment of water quality. His research sites include
California coastal streams, the UCB research station
in Moorea, the Strawberry Creek on the UCB campus, and
the 1,000-mile long Fraser River catchment in British
Columbia.
Professor Resh encourages
the students in his laboratory to pursue basic, quantitative
research in aquatic entomology and ecology, and to incorporate
this research into a framework that can be used to solve
applied problems of water-quality assessment and habitat
restoration. Graduates from this laboratory continue
to pursue these goals in universities, environmental
consulting firms, industries, and government agencies.
BILL
SONNENSCHEIN
Leadership/Communication
Haas School of Business, UCB
STEVE VOSTI
Agricultural/Natural Resource Policy Assistant Adjunct Professor Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Center for Natural Resources Policy Analysis
UC Davis
DAVID ZILBERMAN
Professor, Natural Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UCB
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
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RICHARD H. BEAHRS
Richard Beahrs retired after a 35 year career as a media executive with Time Warner at the beginning of 2004. Most recently he served as President of Court TV. Prior positions included the Presidency of The Comedy Channel (now known as Comedy Central) and a Senior Vice Presidency of HBO where he served as the head of New Business Development and managed the launch of Cinemax.
His current focus is on global environmental issues. He serves on the United Nations Hunger Task Force which is charged with developing a plan for halving the instances of extreme malnutrition throughout the world over the next decade. Long interested in environmental and natural resource science, Beahrs and his wife Carolyn, also a Berkeley alumna, established the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program in August 2000 with a gift to UC Berkeley. Its core is an intensive inter-disciplinary summer certificate course in "Sustainable Environmental Management" for scholars and emerging leaders from around the world. It is the leading international program within the Center for Sustainable Resource Development of the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley.
Beahrs also serves as a Trustee of the School of Management at St. Petersburg University ( Russia). He is the Chairman of the Arbor Day Foundation which is the world’s largest non-profit tree planting organization. He has previously served on the Board of Trustees of the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi Kenya and the Near East Foundation in New York
In 2001, he was the recipient of the inaugural College of Natural Resources Citation at the University of California ( Berkeley). In 2003, he received the Cable television industry’s highest award for Public Affairs for his development of the Choices and Consequences initiative. The program uses live television events, local town meetings, the internet, and classroom materials to enhance the decision-making skills of teens and young adults.
Beahrs and his wife Carolyn reside in Connecticut and Berkeley California and have four grown children.
LOUISE FORTMANN
Rudy Grah Professor of Forestry & Sustainable Development
Division of Resource Institutions, Policy & Management
Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UCB
Louise Fortmann specializes in
forestry and agriforestry, land tenure, community natural
resource management, and gender issues. Professor Fortmann
received her B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University
and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell. Her publications
include Whose Trees: Proprietary Dimensions of Forestry
(Westview Press, 1988), "Fruits of their Labours:
Gender, Property, and Trees in Mhondoro District,"
(1992), and "Property and Forestry" (1992).
Professor Fortmann and her students
study the outcomes of natural resource use and management
for individuals and for communities. Her research is
located in California and southern Africa, her students
work all over the world. Their combined research addresses
four interrelated questions:
- gender- how do women and men
differ in their access to, control of, management
of and responsibility for providing natural resources
and natural resource products.
- property- how are property rights
and claims to natural resources structured and distributed
and how does this affect people/communities dependent
on natural resources for their livelihoods?
- poverty- what is the extent,
nature and distribution of poverty among natural resource
dependent households and communities and what causes
it?
- community control of natural
resources- what factors facilitate or impede community
control and management of natural resources? What
are the social and ecological outcomes of community
control and management of natural resources?
ROBIN MARSH
Academic Coordinator, Center for Sustainable Resource
Development
Co-Director, Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program, UCB
Robin Marsh
is the Academic Coordinator of CSRD. She is an agricultural
and development economist (Ph.D., Food Research Institute,
Stanford University 1991), with 25 years of experience
in international development. At UC Berkeley, Dr. Marsh
helped to launch and develop the Beahrs ELP into a thriving
international training and outreach program. She also
co-leads with David Zilberman the Population and Environment
Program at CSRD, with support from the Packard and Hewlett
Foundations. In addition to population-environment linkages,
Marsh works on bridging the environment and agricultural
divide through support of ecoagriculture and payment
for environmental services initiatives. Before coming
to Berkeley in 2000, Dr. Marsh worked with the Rural
Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
in Rome, leading a global research program on the 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.
PEDRO SANCHEZ
Director-General, International Center for Research
in Agroforestry, Columbia University
Dr. Pedro Sanchez as
been Director General of the International Center for
Research on Agroforestry (ICRAF) since October 1991.
Dr Sanchez is responsible for the overall scientific
leadership and management of the Center and he chairs
ICRAF's Management Committee. In addition, he chairs
the Global Steering Group of the systemwide Alternatives
to Slash-and-Burn Programme and the Committee on Sustainability
and the Environment of the CGIAR centre directors, and
represents the CGIAR on the Soil Fertility Initiative
for Africa. He is co-editor-in-chief of Agroforestry
Systems. Dr Sanchez is Professor Emeritus of Soil Science
and Forestry at North Carolina State University (USA).
A native of Cuba, he received
his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Cornell University in
the USA. He joined the faculty of North Carolina State
University in 1968. His professional career has been
dedicated to improving the management of tropical soils
for sustained food production and protection of the
natural resource base. Dr Sanchez is author of Properties
and management of soils of the tropics, editor of 10
other books and author of more than 120 scientific articles
in English, Spanish and Portuguese. He is a fellow of
the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science
Society of America, adjunct professor of Tropical Conservation
at Duke University (USA) and honorary professor of the
Universidad Nacional de la AmazonÌa Peruana in
Iquitos, Peru. He chairs the Soil Fertility and Plant
Nutrition Commission of the International Soil Science
Society.
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