Robert Costanza

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Robert Costanza
Born	September 14, 1950 (1950-09-14) (age 76) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	University of Florida (BA in architecture, MA in architecture and urban planning, PhD in environmental engineering sciences)
Known for	Founder of International Society for Ecological Economics & Ecological Economics journal, Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Solutions Journal
Awards	Kellogg National Fellow Pew Scholar ISEE Kenneth Boulding Award for Ecological Economics
Scientific career
Fields	Ecological Economics Sustainability Systems Ecology
Workplaces	The Australian National University Portland State University University of Vermont University of Maryland Louisiana State University
Doctoral advisor	H.T. Odum
Website	RobertCostanza.com

Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Full Member of the Club of Rome.

Biography

Before joining University College London, he was a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University in 2013 he was a professor at Portland State University in Oregon from 2010 to 2012. Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at University of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at the Chesapeake Biological Lab on Solomons Island, MD.

He is co-founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and he was founding chief editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989 until 2002. Costanza is the founding editor-in-chief of Solutions, a hybrid popular/academic journal/magazine. He currently serves on the editorial board of eight other international academic journals and is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. He is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.

Selected literature

See also

• Club of Rome
• Balaton Group

References

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Robert Costanza.

• Media Release from ANU on Costanza's appointment
• Faculty page at ANU of Robert Costanza
• Curriculum vitae of Robert Costanza, 2019
• Wellbeing Economy needs to be Primary Goal (2018, at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Club of Rome)