| Dr. Robert Costanza | |
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| Born | September 14, 1950 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Ecological Economics Sustainability Systems Ecology |
| Institutions | Portland State University University of Vermont University of Maryland Louisiana State University |
| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Doctoral advisor | H.T. Odum |
| Known for | Founder of International Society for Ecological Economics & Ecological Economics journal, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Solutions Journal |
| Notable awards | Kellogg National Fellow Pew Scholar |
Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American ecological economist is a University Professor of Sustainability at Portland State University in Oregon.
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Robert Costanza was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Before joining Portland State University in 2010 as the director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions(served for academic year 2010-2011), 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 in the Center for Environmental Science, at Solomons, and in the Biology Department. Costanza received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1979 in systems ecology, with a minor in economics. He also has a master's degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida.
He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and he was 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 new hybrid academic journal/popular magazine. He is also the co-editor-in-chief (with Karin Limburg and Ida Kubiszewski) of Ecological Economics Reviews. 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 of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; a senior fellow of the National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C.; and, a distinguished research fellow of the New Zealand Center for Ecological Economics, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
In 1982 he was selected as a Kellogg National Fellow, in 1992 he was awarded the Society for Conservation Biology Distinguished Achievement Award and in 1993 he was selected as a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. In 1998 he was awarded the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Ecological Economics and received an honorary doctorate in natural sciences from Stockholm University in 2000.
Costanza has served on the scientific steering committee for the “Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone” and “Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System” core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme; the U.S. EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology; the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, Committee on Global Change Research; the National Research Council Board on Global Change; the U.S. National Committee for Man and Superman; the Biosphere Program; and, the National Marine Fisheries Service Committee on Ecosystem Principles.
Costanza's transdisciplinary research integrates the study of humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy, and management issues. His work has focused on the interface between ecological and economic systems, particularly at larger temporal and spatial scales, from small watersheds to the global system. This includes landscape-level spatial simulation modeling; analysis of energy and material flows through economic and ecological systems; valuation of ecosystem services, biodiversity, carrying capacity, and natural capital; and analysis and correction of dysfunctional incentive systems.
Costanza is the author or co-author of 22 books. and over 400 scientific papers.[1] Books, a selection:
Dr. Costanza is the author or co-author of over 400 scientific papers and 22 books. His work has been cited in more than 7,000 scientific articles and he has been named as one of the ISI's Highly Cited Researchers since 2004. More than 200 interviews and reports on his work have appeared in various popular media, including Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Economist, the New York Times, Science, Nature, National Geographic, and National Public Radio.