Robert Costanza
Professor
UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
Biography
I am a professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. I am co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, founding editor of Ecological Economics, editor in chief of The Anthropocene Review, and Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll).
Research
My areas of expertise include: ecological economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, integrated ecological and socioeconomic modelling, energy and material flow analysis, environmental policy, social traps and addictions, incentive structures and institutions. I am author or co-author of over 600 scientific articles and 28 books. My work has been cited more than 130,000 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 137.
Publication highlights
Costanza, R., Anderson, S., Sutton, P., Mulder, K., Mulder, O., Kubiszewski, I., Wang, X., Liu, X., Pérez-Maqueo, O., Martínez, M.L., Jarvis, D., and Dee, G. (2021). The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection. Global Environmental Change, 70, 102328.
Costanza, R., Atkins, P.W.B., Hernandez-Blanco, M. and Kubiszewski, I. (2021). Common Asset Trusts to Effectively Steward Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services at Multiple Scales. Journal of Environmental Management, 280, 111801.
Costanza, R., Fioramonti, L., Giovannini, E., Kubiszewski, I., Lovins, H., McGlade, J., Mortensen, L.F., Pickett, K., Ragnarsdóttir, K.V., Roberts, D., Trebeck, K., de Vogli, R., Wallis, S. and Wilkinson, R. (2020). After the crisis: two possible futures, Solutions, 11(3), pp. 112-117.
Costanza, R. (2020). Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services toward the goals of efficiency, fairness, and sustainability. Ecosystem Services, 43, 101096.
Costanza, R., de Groot,R., Braat, L., Kubiszewski, I., Fioramonti, L., Sutton, P., Farber, S. and Grasso, M. (2017). Twenty years of ecosystem services: how far have we come and how far do we still need to go? Ecosystem Services, 28, pp. 1-16.