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  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard B. Norgaard is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and economics, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, as well as sociology and political science.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Norgaard include:

  • A dual-track transition to global carbon pricing, 2020, Climate Policy
  • Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene, 2020, BioScience
  • Applying a leverage points framework to the United Nations climate negotiations: The (dis)empowerment of youth participants, 2020, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Representing future generations in the deliberative valuation of ecosystem services, 2020, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Economic analysis of international environmental agreements: lessons learnt 2000-2020, 2022, International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Norgaard include:

  • Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
  • Arild Angelsen
  • Andrea Baranzini
  • W. J. Wouter Botzen
  • Stefano Carattini

Key publication venues where Norgaard's work appears are:

  • Climate Policy
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • BioScience
  • International Environmental Agreements Politics Law and Economics
  • Ecological Economics

Among the recognitions received, Norgaard was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges

    Elinor Ostrom;Joanna Burger;Christopher B. Field;Richard B. Norgaard

  • Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future

    Richard B Norgaard

  • Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy

    Mathis Wackernagel;Niels B. Schulz;Diana Deumling;Alejandro Callejas Linares

  • An Introduction to Ecological Economics

    Robert Costanza;John H. Cumberland;Herman E. Daly;Robert J. A. Goodland

  • Ecosystem services: From eye-opening metaphor to complexity blinder

    Richard B. Norgaard

  • Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world

    Chris Sneddon;Richard B. Howarth;Richard B. Norgaard

  • AGROECOLOGIA “Bases científicas para una agricultura sustentable”

    Richard Norgaard;Contribuciones;Thomas O. Sikor;Miguel A. Altieri

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • The case for methodological pluralism

    Richard B. Norgaard

  • Payments for ecosystem services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions

    R. Muradian;M. Arsel;L. Pellegrini;F. Adaman

  • The economics of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity

    Unai Pascual;Roldan Muradian;Luke Brander;Erik Gómez-Baggethun

  • Sustainable development: A co-evolutionary view

    Richard B. Norgaard

  • Issues in ecosystem valuation: improving information for decision making

    Gail Bingham;Richard Bishop;Michael Brody;Daniel Bromley

  • Environmental valuation under sustainable development

    R.B. Howarth;R.B. Norgaard

  • Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview

    Gerald C. Nelson;Elena Bennett;Asmeret A. Berhe;Kenneth Cassman

  • Coevolutionary ecological economics

    Giorgos Kallis;Richard B. Norgaard

  • Sustainability and the Scientist's Burden

    Sharachchandra Lélé;Richard B. Norgaard

  • Economic indicators of resource scarcity: A critical essay

    Richard B Norgaard

  • Intergenerational Resource Rights, Efficiency, and Social Optimality

    Richard B. Howarth;Richard B. Norgaard

  • The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

    John S. Dryzek;Richard B. Norgaard;David Schlosberg

  • Oxford handbook of climate change and society

    John S. Dryzek;Richard B. Norgaard;David Schlosberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Herman E. Daly
Herman E. Daly University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
David Schlosberg
David Schlosberg University of Sydney
Thomas Sikor
Thomas Sikor University of East Anglia
John S. Dryzek
John S. Dryzek University of Canberra
Miguel A. Altieri
Miguel A. Altieri University of California, Berkeley
Richard B. Howarth
Richard B. Howarth Dartmouth College
Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis Autonomous University of Barcelona
Esteve Corbera
Esteve Corbera Autonomous University of Barcelona
Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Erik Gómez-Baggethun Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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