Episode 2: Dr Robert Costanza

Julie Boulton and Ryan Lungu interview their first guest, Dr. Robert Costanza.

Dr. Costanza is a professor of Ecological Economics and Vice Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

His work focuses on breaking our societal addiction to growth, replacing GDP with a measure of wellbeing and integrating natural and social capital into our economic decision making.

He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and founding editor of the society’s journal, Ecological Economics. He currently serves on the editorial board of ten other international academic journals. He is also founding editor-in-chief of Solutions a unique hybrid academic/popular journal and editor in chief of The Anthropocene Review, and an Ambassador of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll). Find out more about Bob’s work at www.robertcostanza.com