Robert Costanza

Robert Costanza ( born September 14, 1950 in Pittsburgh) is Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.

Until 2002, he was director of the Institute for Ecological Economics from the University of Maryland. He taught there Ecological Economy in Solomons and in the Faculty of Biology, College Park. He is co-founder and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics ( ISEE ) and was until September 2002 Editor in Chief of the journal Ecological Economics.

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