Robert Costanza

Publication List Details

Period

1975 - 2009

Number

95

Co-Authors

An Integrative Approach to Quality of Life Measurement, Research, and Policy (2009)

Brendan Fisher, Robert Costanza, Saleem Ali, Caroline Beer, Lynne Bond, Roelof Boumans, ...

While Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal, adequate definition and measurement have been elusive. Diverse “objective” and “subjective” indicators across a...

An Integrative Approach to Quality of Life Measurement, Research, and Policy (2008)

Gaëll Mainguy;, Robert Costanza, Brendan Fisher, Saleem Ali, Caroline Beer, Lynne Bond, ...

While Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal, adequate definition and measurement have been elusive. Diverse “objective” and “subjective” indicators across a...

5 ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY, INDICATORS AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1 (2008)

Robert Costanza

unique characteristics of climate change that makes it problematic for conventional forms of analysis:

The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection (2008)

Robert Costanza, Octavio Pérez-Maqueo, M. Luisa Martinez, Paul Sutton, Sharolyn J. Anderson, Kenneth Mulder

Coastal wetlands reduce the damaging effects of hurricanes on coastal communities. A regression model using 34 major US hurricanes since 1980 with the natural log of damage per unit gross domestic...

Ecosystem - Based (2007)

Ry Management Report, National Marine, Fisheries Service, Pete Aparicio, Texas Shrimpers, Association/gulf Mexico Fishery, ...

this report, we would like to give thanks and credit to others for the assistance they so generously provided to us. The first thanks goes to members of Congress who responded to public and agency...

Landscape Ecology vol. 9 no. 1 pp 47-57 (1994) SPB Academic Publishing bv, The Hague Resolution and predictability: An approach to the scaling problem (2007)

Robert Costanza And, Robert Costanza, Thomas Maxwell

We analyzed the relationship between resolution and predictability and found that whileincreasing resolution provides more descriptive information about the patterns in data, it also increases the...

Linking Ecology and Economics for Ecosystem Management (2006)

STEPHEN FARBER, ROBERT COSTANZA, DANIEL L. CHILDERS, JON ERICKSON, KATHERINE GROSS, MORGAN GROVE, ...

This article outlines an approach, based on ecosystem services, for assessing the trade-offs inherent in managing humans embedded in ecological systems. Evaluating these trade-offs requires an...

Modular Ecosystem Modeling (2002)

Alexey Voinov, Carl Fitz, Thomas Maxwell, Roelof Boumans, Robert Costanza

Abstract: The modular ecosystem modeling approach was used to create a flexible landscape model structure that is easy to modify and extend for particular case studies and applications. The Library...

Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability / Ed. de R. Costanza... [et al.]. (2001)

Costanza, Robert (ed.)

Descripción de prácticas y métodos de sustentabilidad a largo plazo, desarrolladas sobre la base de que el reto es optimizar las compatibilidades entre los ecosistemas y las instituciones humanas,...

Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis (2000)

Costanza, Robert; University Of Maryland, Institute For Ecological Economics; Rcostanz@zoo.uvm.edu

The most critical task facing humanity today is the creation of a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable society, one that can provide permanent prosperity within the biophysical constraints of...

Visions of Alternative (Unpredictable) Futures and Their Use in Policy Analysis (2000)

Costanza, Robert

"The most critical task facing humanity today is the creation of a shared vision of a sustainable and desirable society, one that can provide permanent prosperity within the biophysical constraints...

Scale Misperceptions and the Spatial Dynamics of a Social-Ecological System (1998)

Wilson, James, Low, Bobbi, Costanza, Robert, Ostrom, Elinor

From pg. 4: "While answers to these questions are critical to the design of appropriate management regimes, it is almost impossible to get sufficient empirical data to test these hypotheses. One can,...

A Framework for Modeling the Linkages between Ecosystems and Human Systems (1996)

Cleveland, Cutler, Costanza, Robert, Eggertsson, Thrainn, Fortmann, Louise, Low, Bobbi, McKean, Margaret, ...

"We hypothesize that sustainability requires human systems that are concordant at appropriate scales with the ecosystems to which they are related, given the limits of human information processing....

The Relationship between Ecosystems and Human Systems: Scale Challenges in Linking Property Rights Systems and Natural Resource Management (1995)

Cleveland, Cutler, Costanza, Robert, Eggertsson, Thrainn, Fortmann, Louise, Low, Bobbi, McKean, Margaret A., ...

"We hypothesize that successful sustainability requires human social systems that are concordant with the ecosystem to which they are related at appropriate scales given the limits of human...

The spatial distribution of land use subsystems, incoming energy and energy use in South Florida from 1900 to 1973 :--a research project ... /--by Robert Costanza. (1975)

Costanza, Robert.

Photocopy of typescript. Gainesville : Center for Wetlands, University of Florida. 3 fold. land use maps (leaves 25-27) not reproduced.

Influential Publications in Ecological Economics: A Citation Analysis

Robert Costanza, David I. Stern, Brendan P. Fisher, Lining He, Chunbo Ma

We assessed the degree of influence of selected papers and books in ecological economics using citation analysis. We looked at both the internal influence of publications on the field of ecological...

William D. Nordhaus Managing the Commons: The Economics of Climate Change, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1994, ISBN 0-262-140551-1

Costanza, Robert

William Nordhaus has gone further than any economist to date at building a dynamic integrated model of the world balances the costs of emissions controls in energy policies and other areas against...

William D. Nordhaus Managing the Commons: The Economics of Climate Change, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1994, ISBN 0-262-140551-1

Costanza, Robert

William Nordhaus has gone further than any economist to date at building a dynamic integrated model of the world balances the costs of emissions controls in energy policies and other areas against...

Overcoming systemic roadblocks to sustainability: The evolutionary redesign of worldviews, institutions, and technologies

Beddoe, Rachael, Costanza, Robert, Farley, Joshua, Garza, Eric, Kent, Jennifer, Kubiszewski, Ida, ...

A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all support the...

A New Development Model for a ‘Full’ World

Robert Costanza

Robert Costanza argues that we need to understand what really does contribute to sustainable human well-being, and recognize the substantial contributions of natural and social capitals, which are...