International Advisory Board The Encyclopedia of Earth Dr. Robert Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Costanza is co-founder and former-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and was the founding editor of the society’s journal, Ecological Economics. He is past President of the International Society for Ecosystem Health.Dr. Costanza’s awards include being n ... (Full Bio)

John Cumberland is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, where he served as Professor of Economics and Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. His teaching, research, and publications have been primarily in the fields of environmental and natural resource economics. He is currently Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics (IEE). ... (Full Bio)

Herman Daly is the author of many works on ecological economics including Steady State Economics (1974), Valuing the Earth (1993), Beyond Growth (1996), and Ecological Economics and the Ecology of Economics (1999). The most recent amplification of his ideas is For the Common Good with John Cobb (1989), which received the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order. He is Associate Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecologic ... (Full Bio)

Robert Goodland was the Senior Environmental Advisor to the World Bank Group in Washington, DC between 1978 and 2001. The Library of Congress lists 35 of his publications. He served on the independent Extractive Industry Review of the World Bank Group's oil, gas and mining portfolio (2001-2004), and worked for the Inspection Panel in 2005 & 2006. He was elected chair of the Ecological Society of America (Metropolitan) and President of the International Association for Impact Assessment.E ... (Full Bio)

Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources Group and of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, M.S. in agricultural economics from Oregon State University, and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1971. Among the founders of the field of ecological economics, his recent research addresses how environmental problems challenge scientific understan ... (Full Bio)