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

Barbier is known, since 1989, for the promotion valuation frameworks for valuing nature in economic terms.[1] In 2009, He authored the United Nations’ Global Green New Deal, which connected environmentalism to an economic price.[2] In 2010, he wrote 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]

Barbier has influenced international environmental policy, including influence with the Australian Greens Party.[4]

Career highlights

Barbier was elected Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in 2015.[5][6]


References

  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. ↑ Patricia Karvelas (February 13, 2020). "Where did the Green New deal come from". ABC Radio Australia. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "UW's Barbier Recognized as an AERE Fellow". University of Wyoming. July 5, 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "AERE Fellows". Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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