Robert Costanza

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Robert Costanza
Born	September 14, 1950 (1950-09-14) (age 74) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Florida
Known for	Founder of International Society for Ecological Economics & Ecological Economics journal, Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Solutions Journal[1]
Awards	Kellogg National Fellow Pew Scholar
Scientific career
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

Part of a series on
Ecological economics
Humanity's economic system viewed as a subsystem of the global environment
Concepts Carbon fee and dividend Carrying capacity Ecological market failure Ecological model of competition Ecosystem services Embodied energy Energy accounting Entropy pessimism Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare Natural capital Spaceship Earth Steady-state economy Sustainability, 'weak' vs 'strong' Uneconomic growth
People Serhiy Podolynsky Frederick Soddy Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen Kenneth E. Boulding E. F. Schumacher Robert Ayres Herman Daly Joan Martinez Alier Richard B. Norgaard Robert Costanza Tim Jackson Clive Spash Organizations: International Society for Ecological Economics
Works Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt The Entropy Law and the Economic Process The Limits to Growth Small Is Beautiful Prosperity Without Growth Ecological Economics (journal)
Related topics Degrowth Eco-investing Eco-socialism Environmental economics Externality Green politics Planetary boundaries Post-growth Sustainable finance Thermodynamics Thermoeconomics
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Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia^[2] and a Full Member of the Club of Rome.^[3]