Robert Costanza

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Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950 in Pittsburgh ) is Professor of Ecological Economics , Director of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont , Professor and Director of Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

Robert Costanza

Life

Until 2002 he was director of the Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Maryland . He taught ecological economics in Solomons and the biological school in College Park . He is co-founder and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and was editor-in-chief of Ecological Economics until September 2002 .

Costanza was a member of many scientific projects and committees. Among other things, he was involved in the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone and Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System projects. These were the core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. He sat on the committees of the US EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, the National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development, the Committee on Global Change Research , the National Research Council, the 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.

The value of world's ecosystems

Costanza gained special acquaintance outside of specialist circles as the main author of the study The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital , published in 1997 in Nature magazine, which is by far the most cited economic evaluation study of ecosystems to this day .

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SURNAME Costanza, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist, professor of ecological economics at the University of Vermont
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, USA