Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian
ecological economist and Professor at the
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity,
University College London
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. He is a Fellow of the
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/ref> and a Full Member of the Club of Rome
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Biography
Before joining University College London
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, he was a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University[retrieved 7 January, 2020](_blank)
/ref> in 2013 he was a professor at Portland State University
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in Oregon from 2010 to 2012.[Robert Costanza to Lead Sustainability Center at PSU](_blank)
/ref> Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics
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and director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont
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. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was director of the University of Maryland
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Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at University of Maryland
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'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
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and he was founding chief editor of the society's journal, ''Ecological Economics
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'' from its inception in 1989 until 2002. Costanza is the founding editor-in-chief of ''Solutions'', a hybrid popular/academic journal/magazine.[Solutions Magazine](_blank)
/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
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, Stockholm, Sweden;[Stockholm Resilience Centre](_blank)
/ref> Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont
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; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.
Selected literature
Studies
* 2016, ''Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Books
* 2020, with John D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, and Ida Kubiszewski ''Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: a research and action agenda for Ecological Economics''.
* 2014, with John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, Richard B. Norgaard, Ida Kubiszewski, and Carol Franco. ''An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition''.
* 2014, with Ida Kubiszewski (eds). ''Creating A Sustainable and Desirable Future: Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders''.
* 2013, with Gar Alperovitz, Herman Daly, Joshua Farley, Carol Franco, Tim Jackson, Ida Kubiszewski, Juliet Schor, and Peter Victor. ''Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature''.
* 2007, with Lisa Graumlich and Will Steffen, ''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
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* 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 service
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s and natural capital. ''Nature
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'' 387:253-260 (1997)
* 1998, Costanza et al. Principles for sustainable governance of the oceans. ''Science
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'' 281:198-199 (1998)
* 2008, Costanza, R. Stewardship for a “Full” World. ''Current History
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'' (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''
See also
* Club of Rome
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* Balaton Group
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 Club of Rome
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1950 births
21st-century American economists
Living people
Systems ecologists
American systems scientists
American sustainability advocates
University of Florida alumni
University of Vermont faculty
Renewable energy economics
Ecological economists
American academic journal editors
Academic staff of the Australian National University