, 1939) is a Catalan economist

Economist

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, Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

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. He is the author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society (1990). and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (2002).

He is a founding member and past-president of the International Society for Ecological Economics

International Society for Ecological Economics

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. He was a member (2000–08) of the European Environment Agency

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 Scientific Committee.

He is also co-editor of Getting down to earth: practical applications of Ecological Economics (1996), Rethinking Environmental History. World-System History and Global Environmental Change (2007), Recent Developments in Ecological Economics (2008), and of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being with Oxford U.P., Delhi.

Selected publications (in English)

• 1971: Labourers and Landowners in Southern Spain
• 1977: Haciendas, Plantations and Collective Farms (Cuba and Peru
• 1990: Ecological economics: energy, environment and society
• 1996: Getting down to earth: practical applications of ecological economics (with Robert Costanza
  Robert Costanza
  Robert Costanza is an American ecological economist is a University Professor of Sustainability at Portland State University in Oregon.- Biography :Robert Costanza was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
   and Olman Segura)
• 2002: The Environmentalism of the Poor: A study of ecological conflicts and valuation
• 2007: Rethinking Environmental History: World-Systems History and Global Environmental Change (with Alf Hornborg and John Mc Neill)
• 2008: Recent Developments in Ecological Economics 2 vols. (with Inge Ropke)