Professor David Barkin teaches Economics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He received his doctorate at Yale University. He was a founding member of the Ecodevelopment Center in Mexico. His most recent international award was from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for an extended research position in Berlin to collaborate on research on the impacts of climate change.

His research involves collaboration with indigenous and peasant communities to strengthen local capacities for self-government, ecosystem management, and self-sufficiency of basic needs. This work promotes the use of post-normal science methodologies to improve the quality of life by creating environments for consolidating post-capitalist societies searching for “alternatives to development”. His work is widely published in journals in Spanish and English.

His most widely circulated books include The Beneficiaries of Regional Development (Sep-Setentas, 1972); Wealth, Poverty, and Sustainable Development Ecodevelopment Center, 1998). Urban Water Management in Mexico (University of Guadalajara, 2006). His most recent book is: De la Protesta a la Propuesta: 50 años imaginando y construyendo el futuro (SIglo XXI editores, 2018).