Robert Costanza

105.6k citations
380 papers · 53.8k · 20 hit papers · h-index 92

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Robert Costanza

372 papers receiving 49.3k citations

Robert Costanza's Hit Papers

Valuing natural capital and ecosystem services toward the goals of efficiency, fairness, and sustainability 2020 · 287 citations
2870+9+19Years since publication5.0k10.0k15.0k

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Robert Costanza
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  • Global and Planetary Change 28.4k
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 13.3k
  • Ecology 12.7k
  • Economics and Econometrics 12.8k
  • Environmental Engineering 5.5k
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All Works

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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
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199715021
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Changes in the global value of ecosystem services
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20144213
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
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19981966
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Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units
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20121839
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Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
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19951115
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Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas
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20011108
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
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19921029
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Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
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20021006
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Economic and ecological concepts for valuing ecosystem services
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2002823
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Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities
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2008781
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Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
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1995574
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Energy and the U.S. Economy: A Biophysical Perspective
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1984559
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Modelling and measuring sustainable wellbeing in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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2016508
14
Payments for ecosystem services: From local to global
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2010507
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The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection
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2008503
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Ecosystem services: Multiple classification systems are needed
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2008501
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Investing in natural capital: the ecological economics approach to sustainability.
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1994488
18 1980463
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Beyond GDP: Measuring and achieving global genuine progress
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2013456
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Development: Time to leave GDP behind
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2014449

About Robert Costanza

Robert Costanza is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology and Environmental Engineering, having authored 380 papers that have together received 53.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (104 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (74 papers), Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (63 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (48 papers), Global Energy and Sustainability Research (36 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (32 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (22 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (28.4k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (13.3k citations), Ecology (12.7k citations), Economics and Econometrics (12.8k citations) and Environmental Engineering (5.5k citations). Robert Costanza has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Stephen Färber, Paul C. Sutton, R.S. de Groot, Karin E. Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O’Neill, Marjan van den Belt, Monica Grasso, Bruce Hannon and José M. Paruelo. Their work appears in journals such as Ecological Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecological Modelling, BioScience and Nature.

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