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Ecological Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future - Robert Costanza

Robert Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to 2002, he was at the University of Maryland, where he directed the Institute for Ecological Economics and was a professor in the Center for Environmental Science and in the Biology Department. Costanza is cofounder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and for many years served as the chief editor of its journal. His awards and distinctions include a Kellogg National Fellowship, the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Achievement Award, and selection as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. Costanza received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in systems ecology. He also has a master's degree in architecture and urban and regional planning from the University of Florida.The 2008 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture. Robert Costanza currently serves on the editorial board of eight international academic journals. He is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. In 1998 he was awarded the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Ecological Economics. In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate in natural sciences from Stockholm University. He has served on the Scientific Steering Committee for the LOICZ and AIMES core project of the IGBP; the US EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT); the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, Committee on Global Change Research; the National Research Council, Board on Global Change; the US National Committee for the Man and the Biosphere Program, and the National Marine Fisheries Service Committee on Ecosystem Principles. Costanza's research has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales. This includes landscape level spatial simulation modeling; analysis of energy and material flows through economic and ecological systems; valuation of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and natural capital; and analysis of dysfunctional incentive systems and ways to correct them. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers. His work has been cited in more than 3,000 scientific articles since 1987 and more than eighty interviews and reports on his work have appeared in various media, including Newsweek, US News and World Report, The Economist, The New York Times, Science, Nature, National Geographic, and National Public Radio. Cosponsored By: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)

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