Richard Norgaard (norgaard@socrates.berkeley.edu)

    Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources Group and of
Agriculture and Resource Economics. 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 understanding and the policy process, how ecologists and
economists understand systems differently, and how globalization affects
environmental governance. He is the author of one book, co-author or editor
of three additional books, and has over 100 other publications spanning the
fields of environment and development, tropical forestry and agriculture,
environmental epistemology, energy economics, and ecological economics.
Though an eclectic scholar, he is also among the 1000 economists in the
world most cited by other economists. He has field experience in the
Brazilian Amazon, Alaska, and Vietnam with minor forays in other parts of
the globe. Dr. Norgaard is a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory
Committee of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, serves on the Board of the American Institute of Biological
Sciences, and has served as President of the International Society for
Ecological Economics (1998-2001).