Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity,

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. He is a Fellow of the

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Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows
/ref> and a Full Member of the

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.Club of Rome
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Biography

Before joining

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

, he was a professor at the

Crawford School of Public Policy Crawford School of Public Policy is a research-intensive policy school within the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University which focuses on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The school was named after Sir ...

The Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

retrieved 7 January, 2020
/ref> in 2013 he was a professor at

Portland State University Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the following two dec ...

in Oregon from 2010 to 2012.Robert Costanza to Lead Sustainability Center at PSU
/ref> Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and director of the

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics The Gund Institute for Environment (founded 1992), formerly known as the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and more commonly known as Gund Institute, is a research institute for transdisciplinary scholarship,University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the Unite ...

. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was director of the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at

's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at Chesapeake Biological Lab on Solomons Island MD. He is co-founder and past-president of the

International Society for Ecological Economics The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) was founded in 1989, based heavily on the work of Herman Daly to promote ecological economics and assist ecological economists and related societies. In 1996, the Right Livelihood Aw ...

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 Solution may refer to: * Solution (chemistry), a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another * Solution (equation), in mathematics ** Numerical solution, in numerical analysis, approximate solutions within specified error bounds * Soluti ...

'' a hybrid popular/academic journal/magazine.Solutions Magazine
/ref> 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 The Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. It is a joint initiative between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swe ...

, Stockholm, Sweden;Stockholm Resilience Centre
/ref> Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the Unite ...

; and a co-chair of the

Ecosystem Services Partnership An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the syste ...

Selected literature

Studies

* 2016, ''Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN

Sustainable Development Goals The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked objectives designed to serve as a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future".United Nations (2017) R ...

Books

* 2020, with John D. Erickson,

Joshua Farley Joshua () or Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation') ''Yēšūaʿ''; syr, ܝܫܘܥ ܒܪ ܢܘܢ ''Yəšūʿ bar Nōn''; el, Ἰησοῦς, ar , يُوشَعُ ٱبْنُ نُونٍ '' Yūšaʿ ...

, and

Ida Kubiszewski Ida or IDA may refer to: Astronomy *Ida Facula, a mountain on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter *243 Ida, an asteroid *International Docking Adapter, a docking adapter for the International Space Station Computing *Intel Dynamic Acceleration, a techno ...

''Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: a research and action agenda for Ecological Economics''. * 2014, with John Cumberland,

Herman Daly Herman Edward Daly (July 21, 1938 – October 28, 2022) was an American Ecological economics, ecological and Georgism#Georgism and environmental economics, Georgist economist and professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, S ...

, Robert Goodland, Richard B. Norgaard,

, and Carol Franco. ''An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition''. * 2014, with

(eds). ''Creating A Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders''. * 2013, with

Gar Alperovitz Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy ...

, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson,

, Juliet Schor, and

Peter Victor Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

. ''Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature''. * 2007, with Lisa Graumlich and

Will Steffen Will Steffen (born 1947) is an American chemist. He was the executive director of the Australian National University (ANU) Climate Change Institute and a member of the Australian Climate Commission until its dissolution in September 2013. Fro ...

, ''Sustainability or Collapse? An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth.'' * 2000, with Tom Prugh and Herman Daly, ''The local politics of global sustainability''. * 1997, with John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland and Richard Norgaard, ''An Introduction to Ecological Economics'' * 1996, with Olman Segura and Juan Martinez-Alier, ''Getting down to earth: practical applications of ecological economics'' * 1992, with Bryan Norton and Ben Haskell, ''Ecosystem health: new goals for environmental management''. * 1991, ''Ecological economics: The science and management of sustainability''.Google Books: ''Ecological economics: The science and management of sustainability''
(Columbia University Press, 1992, ) - Retrieved 2019-02-08

Most prominent articles

* 1996, Costanza, R. Ecological economics: reintegrating the study of humans and nature. ''Ecological Applications'' 6:978-990 (1996) * 1997, Costanza et al. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. ''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...

'' 387:253-260 (1997) * 1998, Costanza et al. Principles for sustainable governance of the oceans. ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

'' 281:198-199 (1998) * 2008, Costanza, R. Stewardship for a “Full” World. '' Current History '' (January 2008) An excellent six-page (including a concise chart) exposition of ecological economics. * 2010, Costanza et al. The perfect spill: solutions for averting the next Deepwater Horizon, ''The Solutions Journal'' * 2014, Costanza et al. Changes in the global value of ecosystem services, ''Global Environmental Change'' * 2016, Costanza et al. Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ''Ecological Economics'' * 2017, Costanza et al. Twenty years of ecosystem services: how far have we come and how far do we still need to go? ''Ecosystem Services'' * 2021, Costanza et al. Common asset trusts to effectively steward natural capital and ecosystem services at multiple scales, ''Journal of Environmental Management''

References

External links

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

) {{DEFAULTSORT:Costanza, Robert 1950 births 21st-century American economists Living people Systems ecologists American systems scientists Sustainability advocates University of Florida alumni University of Vermont faculty Renewable energy economy Ecological economists Academic journal editors Australian National University faculty