CUSP/CES Seminar with Prof Robert Costanza
Online | 9 May 2022, 2pm (BST)
What is ecological economics: A brief history and why we need it now more than ever
Ecological economics can help create the future that most people want—a future that is prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. Robert explores an approach that places the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal.
This lecture explores the history of Ecological Economics and ideas from the 2020 book ‘Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics’, edited by Robert and fellow scholars. The lecture outlines what a sustainable wellbeing future could look like and a research and action agenda to help us get there.
About
Robert Costanza is a professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Society of Arts (UK), and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll). He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and founding editor of Ecological Economics. He is founding editor-in-chief of Solutions and editor in chief of The Anthropocene Review. 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. His 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. He is the author or co-author of over 600 scientific papers and 28 books. His work has been cited more than 130,000 times in Google Scholar with an h-index of 134. More than 350 interviews and reports on his work have appeared in various popular media and he has written over 75 articles for the popular press.
WHERE
Online
WHEN
Monday, 9 May 2022
2pm (BST)
CONTACT
The event is part of a teaching module at the University of Surrey, but was live-streamed via Zoom. A video recording of the event can be accessed via the CUSP Youtube Channel. For enquiries, please email events@cusp.ac.uk.
