Richard Norgaard, professor of energy and resources

Richard Norgaard is professor of energy and resources at UC Berkeley. Among the founders of the field of ecological economics, his recent research addresses how environmental problems challenge scientific understanding and the policy process, how ecologists and economists understand systems differently, and how globalization affects environmental governance. He has field experience in Alaska, Brazil, California, and Vietnam with minor forays in other parts of the globe.

Norgaard is the author of one book, co-author or editor of three additional books, and has over 100 other publications spanning the fields of environment and development, tropical forestry and agriculture, environmental epistemology, energy economics, and ecological economics. Though an eclectic scholar, he is also among the 1000 economists in the world most cited by other economists (Millennium Editions of Who's Who in Economics, 2000).

Norgaard has served on numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank and served on the science advisory board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Independent Science Board of the California Bay – Delta Authority. He received his B.A. in economics from UC Berkeley, M.S. in agricultural economics from Oregon State University, and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.