Dr. Costanza is the Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. Costanza is co-founder and former-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and was the founding editor of the society’s journal, Ecological Economics. He is the author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers, and reports on his work have appeared in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Economist, The New York Times, Science, Nature, National Geographic, and National Public Radio.