Robert Costanza is Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). Before moving to London, he was the Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, an Affiliate Fellow at the GundInstitute at the University of Vermont, and a deTaoMaster of Ecological Economics at the deTaoMasters 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).
Professor Costanza’s transdisciplinary research integrates the study of humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy and management issues at multiple time and space scales, from small watersheds to the global system.
He is co-founder and past-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. Professor Costanza is one of the most highly cited researchers. He enjoys an h-index of 135. His seminal paper on ecosystem services has been cited more than 27,000 times.
