Christopher Bacon
B.A., 1995, Environmental Studies and Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., 2005, Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Postdoc, 2007-09, Geography and Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley
Bacon teaches courses in environmental politics and policy, environmental and food justice, political ecology, community-engagement research, and mixed methods. He frequently mentors undergraduate students, and leads an action-research lab with a diverse group of student researchers, collaborators, and community-partners.
Christopher Bacon is an environmental social scientist with expertise in sustainable food systems, livelihoods, agroecology, community-based research, food security, environmental justice, sustainability, climate adaptation, and transdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to questions about how to alleviate linked food, nutritional, and water access disparities today, he is invested in developing transformational strategies to change the conditions that cause vulnerability, hunger, and environmental damage. Concepts from political ecology, agroecology, and development studies inform his approach. Chris’s long-term community-based participatory action research partnerships with smallholder farmer cooperatives in Central America and California based urban food justice organizations aim to advance food sovereignty, environmental justice, sustainability, and climate resilience. Bacon has been the Principal Investigator on three collaborative multi-year grants (two from NSF) since 2015, and Co-Pi on several smaller grants (e.g., a CalEPA EJ Grant). To learn more about this work see the Climate and Food Justice Program, and the .
Bacon currently serves on 糖心破解版 Committees for Research, Student Basic Needs, Gift Acceptance, and Sustainability Strategic Planning, and previously served on the Faculty Judicial Board. He is on the editorial board for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, and a frequent reviewer for articles/books, grants, and awards. He is a co-founder and active member of the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative and a co-organizer of the South Bay Food Justice Collaborative. Bacon also serves as a Co-Chair for the ’ Laudato Si’ Commission, tasked with developing transformative proposals with the 28 affiliated members to advance justice, sustainability and integral ecology.
- ENVS 22: Introduction to Environmental Studies
- ENVS 101: Senior Capstone
- ENVS 111: Mixed Research Methods
- ENVS 122: Environmental Politics and Policy
- ENVS 150: Political Ecology
- ENVS 155: Environmental and Food Justice
*denotes undergraduate student co-authors
Bacon, C. M., Flores Gomez, M. E., Shin, V.*, Ballardo, G.*, Kriese, S.*, McCurry, E.*, Martinez, E* & Rivas, M. (2023).. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1-42.
Guzmán A.L. Bacon, C.M., V. E. Méndez, M-E. Flores Gómez, Anderzén, J., Mier y Terán, M.,Hernández, J. Rivas, M. Alberto Duarte, and H.Benavides, A.(2022) Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6(810840), 1–19.
Bacon, C.M., L. C. Kelley, and I. T. Stewart. (2022). Ecology and Society 27(1):16.
Rhiney, K., Guido, Z., Knudson, C., Avelino, J., Bacon, C. M., Leclerc, G., Aime, M.C., and Bebber, D. P. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (27) e2023212118
Bacon, C.M. Sundstrom, W. Stewart, IT., Maurer, E. and Kelley, L. (2021). World Development.143, 105468.
Bacon, C.M. W. A. Sundstrom, I. T. Stewart, and D. Beezer* (2017). World Development (93): 136-152.
Bacon, C.M. & Baker, G.A. (2017).. Agriculture and Human Values. (34): 899-919.
Méndez, V.E., C.M. Bacon, R. Cohen and S.R. Gliessman (Eds.) (2016) Advances in Agroecology Series. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.
Jha, S., C.M. Bacon, S.M. Philpott, V.E. Méndez, R.A. Rice and P. Läderach (2014). . BioScience. 64 (5): 416-428.
Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. A., Flores Gómez, M. E., Ernesto Méndez, V., Santos, R.*, Goldoftas, B., & Dougherty, I.* (2014). . Global Environmental Change (25): 133-149.
Stewart, I. T., Bacon, C. M., & Burke, W. D.*(2014). Applied Geography. 55: 266-277
Kremen, C. Iles, A. and Bacon, C.M (Guest Eds.). (2012) Ecology and Society 17(4).
Bacon, C.M., Getz, Kraus, S., Montenegro, M and Holland, K.* (2012) . Ecology and Society 17(4): 41.