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Robert Costanza | |
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| Born | September 14, 1950 (1950-09-14) (age 75) Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Known for | Founder ofInternational Society for Ecological Economics &Ecological Economics journal, Founding Editor-in-Chief ofThe Solutions Journal[1] |
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| Fields | Ecological Economics Sustainability Systems Ecology |
| Institutions | The Australian National University Portland State University University of Vermont University of Maryland Louisiana State University |
| Doctoral advisor | H.T. Odum |
| Website | RobertCostanza.com |
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Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australianecological economist and Professor at theUCL Institute for Global Prosperity,University College London. He is a Fellow of theAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia[2] and a Full Member of theClub of Rome.[3]
Before joiningUniversity College London, he was a professor at theCrawford School of Public Policy atThe Australian National University[4] in 2013 he was a professor atPortland State University in Oregon from 2010 to 2012.[5] Costanza was the Gund Professor ofEcological Economics and director of theGund Institute for Ecological Economics at theUniversity of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was director of theUniversity of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor atUniversity of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at theChesapeake Biological Lab onSolomons Island, MD.
He is co-founder and past president of theInternational 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 ofSolutions, a hybrid popular/academic journal/magazine.[6] 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 theStockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden;[7] Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at theUniversity of Vermont; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.
