Norgaard, Richard
Submitted by cmjones on April 2, 2007 - 1:26pm.
Name of Person:
Richard Norgaard
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Department:
Agricultural and Resource Economics, Professor
Research Interests:
Richard Norgaard's 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.
Achievements:
Dick Norgaard is recognized within the field of economics (Who’s Who in Economics, Millennium Edition, and The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists) for both his critiques of and contributions to economics. He is one of 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 has over 100 publications spanning the fields of environment and development, tropical forestry and agriculture, environmental epistemology, energy economics, and ecological economics. He is author of the book Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future (Routeldege, 1994).