Robert Costanza

Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL)

Robert Costanza is a Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). He is also currently an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, an Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont, and a deTao Master of Ecological Economics at the deTao Masters Academy in Shanghai, China. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the UK and is an Overseas Expert in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His specialties include transdisciplinary integration, systems ecology, ecological economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, integrated socio-ecological modeling, ecological design, energy analysis, environmental policy, social traps and addictions, incentive structures, and institutions. He is co-founder and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and was founding chief editor of the society’s journal Ecological Economics. He is also founding co-editor in chief of Solutions, a unique hybrid academic/popular journal and editor in chief of the Anthropocene Review.

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