Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is a Vancouver-based researcher, educator and consultant in environmental politics and policy. He has conducted research in the field of comparative environmental public policy with a regional focus on North America for over 10 years. Raul is an Instructor in the Department of Political Science at The University of British Columbia and the Regional Director, Western Canada, for the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP). Raul uses a variety of online platforms in his teaching and research and writes for a broader audience on his research blog. He writes a personal blog at Hummingbird604.com. His personal blog was nominated to the Canadian Blog Awards in the Best New Blog, Best Personal Blog and Best Overall Blog categories in 2009.
Raul is participating in two sessions at Northern Voice 2010: Gov 2.0: Politics, Policy and Social Media in Canada: A Multi-Level Exploration, and Beyond the Hype: Teaching and Social Media
