Area of Expertise
Environmental Resources Management; Social and Economic Planning of Coastal Zones; Environmental and Ecological Economy

Alejandro Toledo Ocampo is an economist graduated from UNAMS with a third cycle doctorate from the University of Paris, France. He has been professor and researcher in UNAM, UAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) and the Colegio de Michoacán, giving courses within his specialty:mangement and planing of natural resources, social and economic planing of coastal areas, energy planing (hydrocarbons), environmental economy ecological economics.
He is the author of several books: Petróleo y Ecodesarrollo en el Sureste de México (Oil and Ecodevelopment in Southeast Mexico) (1982); Cómo destruir el Paraíso (How to destroy Paradise) (1984); El Pantano: una riqueza que se destruye (The swamp: a fortune being destroyed)(1987), Energía, Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (Energy, environment and development) (1988); Riqueza y Pobreza en la Costa de Chiapas y Oaxaca (Wealth and Poverty on the coasts of Chiapas and Oaxaca)(1994); Geopolítica y Desarrollo en el Istmo de Tehuantepec (1995) and Economía de la Biodiversidad (Economics of biodiversity)(1998).