Moments with Melinda: Interview with Robert Costanza

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From Melinda Moulton:

Before joining University College London, Robert was a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. In 2013 he was a professor at Portland State University in Oregon from 2010 to 2012. Costanza was the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Prior to moving to Vermont in August 2002, Costanza was Director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics, and a professor at University of Maryland's Center for Estuarine and Environmental Science, at Chesapeake Biological Lab on Solomons Island MD.

He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics and he was founding Chief Editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989, until 2002. Costanza is the founding editor-in-chief of Solutions - a popular hybrid academic journal/magazine. He currently serves on the editorial board of eight other international academic journals and is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health. He is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden; Affiliate Fellow at the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont; and a co-chair of the Ecosystem Services Partnership.

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