Edward Barbier (born 1957) is an environmental and resource economist. He holds the title of University Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.

Edward Barbier
Born (1957-07-22) July 22, 1957 (age 67)
Occupation(s)Economist, Professor
AwardsFellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2015)

Barbier is known, since 1989, for the promotion of frameworks for valuing nature in economic terms.[1] In 2009, He authored the United Nations’ Global Green New Deal, which was a strategy for greening the global economic recovery after the Great Recession.[2] In 2010, he further elaborated on this strategy in A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery, which connected the environment to climate change to human energy and water security, and to human poverty.[3] He has also proposed strategies for the G20 and G7 on how best to green the post-COVID economic recovery.[4][5]

Barbier has influenced international environmental policy, including influence with the Australian Greens Party.[6] Barbier’s 1987 article[7] is credited as the first representation of sustainability in terms of the popular three intersecting circles, or Venn diagram.[8]  He has also written extensively on the role of natural capital in sustainable development.[9]

Career highlights

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Barbier was elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2015.[10][11]


References

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  1. ^ Helen Avery (October 8, 2019). "Conservation finance: Can banks embrace natural capital". Euromoney. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ Edward B. Barbier (March 26, 2020). "The Revival of the Green New Deal". Cambridge Core Blog. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  3. ^ Keith Luebke (December 1, 2020). "How to think about the Green New Deal under the Biden administration". MinnPost. Retrieved 21 November 2021. Barbier's book proposed a global response to climate change aimed at reducing carbon dependency. From the start, it made clear that climate change cannot be separated from deteriorating ecosystems, stressed water supplies, energy insecurity, and worsening poverty.
  4. ^ Barbier, Edward B. (2020-08-01). "Greening the Post-pandemic Recovery in the G20". Environmental and Resource Economics. 76 (4): 685–703. Bibcode:2020EnREc..76..685B. doi:10.1007/s10640-020-00437-w. ISSN 1573-1502. PMC 7294987. PMID 32836827.
  5. ^ Barbier, Edward B. (May 2023). "Three climate policies that the G7 must adopt — for itself and the wider world". Nature. 617 (7961): 459–461. Bibcode:2023Natur.617..459B. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01586-w. PMID 37193811.
  6. ^ Patricia Karvelas (February 13, 2020). "Where did the Green New deal come from". ABC Radio Australia. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  7. ^ Barbier, Edward B. (July 1987). "The Concept of Sustainable Economic Development". Environmental Conservation. 14 (2): 101–110. Bibcode:1987EnvCo..14..101B. doi:10.1017/S0376892900011449. ISSN 1469-4387.
  8. ^ Purvis, Ben; Mao, Yong; Robinson, Darren (2019-05-01). "Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins". Sustainability Science. 14 (3): 681–695. Bibcode:2019SuSc...14..681P. doi:10.1007/s11625-018-0627-5. ISSN 1862-4057.
  9. ^ Barbier, Edward B (2019). "The concept of natural capital". Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 35 (1): 14–36. doi:10.1093/oxrep/gry028. ISSN 0266-903X.
  10. ^ "UW's Barbier Recognized as an AERE Fellow". University of Wyoming. July 5, 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  11. ^ "AERE Fellows". Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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