About the Beijer Institute

The Beijer Institute is an international research institute under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Institute was established in 1977 and was reorganized in 1991 with a focus on ecological economics. Core funding is provided by the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation.

The Beijer Institute's major objective is to carry out research and stimulate cooperation between scientists, university departments, research centers and institutes to promote a deeper understanding of the interplay between ecological systems and social and economic development.

Cooperation efforts include collaborative research between economists and ecologists and related disciplines on fundamental and applied problems in relation to sustainability, as well as teaching and training on those issues nationally and internationally.

The Beijer Institute's major activities are international research programmes, synthesis workshops, a broad set of research projects, teaching and training programs, dissemination of results, the science-policy interface and collaborative communication.

Kenneth Arrow

Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Economics Department, Stanford University, California, USA
http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/kennethjarrow/

Scott Barrett

Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia University, USA
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/sb3116-fac.html

Fikret Berkes

Professor, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
http://umanitoba.ca/institutes/natural_resources/nri_about_faculty_profileberkes.html

William (Buz) Brock

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wbrock/

Stephen Carpenter

Professor of Limnology and Zoology, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
http://limnology.wisc.edu/personnel/carpenter/

Stuart (Terry) Chapin

Professor of Ecology, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
http://www.becru.uaf.edu/personnel/Terry.htm

Kanchan Chopra

Professor Emeritus, Former Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
http://www.iegindia.org/

Gretchen Daily

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California, USA
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/Staff/gretchen.htm

Partha Dasgupta

Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/

Paul Ehrlich

Bing Professor of Population Studies, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, California, USA
http://www.stanford.edu/group/CCB/Staff/Ehrlich.html

Lance Gunderson

Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://www.envs.emory.edu/faculty/gunderson.html

Michael Hoel

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
http://folk.uio.no/mihoel/

C.S. (Buzz) Holling

Emeritus Eminent Scholar, Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecological Sciences, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~arm/people/holling.html

Terry Hughes

Professor, Federation Fellow and Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Australia
http://www.coralcoe.org.au/research/terryhughes.html

Simon Levin

Moffett Professor of Biology, Director Center for BioComplexity, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
http://www.princeton.edu/~slevin/

Jane Lubchenco

Dr. Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator, USA
http://www.noaa.gov/lubchenco.html

Karl-Göran Mäler

Professor of Economics, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden. Former Director of the Beijer Institute (1991-2007).

Elinor Ostrom

Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/ostrom.html

Charles Perrings

Professor of Environmental Economics, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
http://www.ecoservices.asu.edu

Stephen Polasky

Fesler Lampert Professor of Ecological/ Environmental Economics, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, USA
http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/spolasky/

Thomas Rosswall

Chairman, CGIAR Challenge Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org

Marten Scheffer

Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
http://www.aew.wur.nl/uk/staff/MS/

Jason Shogren

Stroock Professor, Department of Economics & Finance, University of Wyoming, USA
http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/Shogren/

David Starrett

Professor (Emeritus), Economics Department, Stanford University, California, USA
http://economics.stanford.edu/faculty/starrett

Thomas Sterner

Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, Göteborg University, Sweden
http://www.hgu.gu.se/item.aspx?id=2618

M. Scott Taylor

Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier I, Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Calgary, Canada
http://econ.ucalgary.ca/profiles/m-scott-taylor

Jeffrey Vincent

Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
http://fds.duke.edu/db/Nicholas/faculty/jrv6

Brian Walker

Dr, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra, Australia
http://www.csiro.au/people/brian.walker.html

Jim Wilen

Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, USA
http://www.agecon.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/page.php?id=116

Anastasios Xepapadeas

Professor of Economic Theory and Policy, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
http://www.aueb.gr/users/xepapadeas/xepapadeas/

Aart de Zeeuw

Professor, Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=a.j.dezeeuw