March 24, 2006
Dr. Robert Costanza, whose research focuses on the interrelation of the Earth’s ecology and the worldwide economy, will give a lecture on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus April 11.The 5:30 p.m. lecture, “Ecological Economics: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future,” will be held at the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium. A reception will follow.

The free event is part of the Carolina Environmental Program’s 2005-2006 Environmental Seminar Series.

Costanza has written or co-written more than 300 papers and 19 books on a range of subjects. He is the Gund professor of ecological economics and director of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont and was previously director of the University of Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics.

Costanza is co-founder and past president of the International Society of Ecological Economics and was chief editor of the society’s journal, Ecological Economics, from its founding until 2002. He also is past president of the International Society for Ecosystem Health.

His works include “Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability” (1991) and “The Local Politics of Global Sustainability” (with Tom Prugh and Herman Daly, 1999). He has been a Kellogg National Fellow and a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment, and received the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Ecological Economics in 1998.

The Carolina Environmental Program is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to addressing factors that build an environmentally sustainable society. The program offers majors in environmental science and environmental studies within the College of Arts and Sciences and environmental health science within the School of Public Health; fosters collaborative research on large-scale environmental challenges; and provides technical assistance, training and up-to-date information on environmental issues to N.C. communities.

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Carolina Environmental Program contact: Tony Reevy, (919) 966-9927 or tony_reevy@unc.edu.

For further information please contact Ramona DuBose either by phone at 919-967-7467 or by e-mail at ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

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