Richard Norgaard

Richard B. Norgaard currently serves on the Independent Science Board of CALFED (California Bay-Delta Authority) and as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He is the most recent recipient of the Kenneth E. Boulding Award presented at the 9th biennial meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Delhi, December 2006.

Norgaard is studying how scientists from multiple disciplines can work together to understand complex systems. The scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (with Paul Baer, ERG PhD 2005) and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are his case materials though he is also looking at the scientific aspects of conflict resolution in California water controversies.

He recently completed work in the area of trade, environment and governance with Xuemei Liu (Agricultural and Resource Economics, PhD, 2001) and with ERG graduate student Ling Jin. In addition, he is once again pursuing coevolutionary explanations of social and ecological change with postdoctoral scholars Georgos Kallis and Lee Worden.

1. Norgaard, Richard B. and Xuemei Liu. forthcoming. Market Governance Failure. Ecological Economics.

2. Sneddon, Christopher, Richard B. Howarth, and Richard B. Norgaard. 2006. Sustainable Development in a Post-Bruntland World. Ecological Economics 57(2):253-68.

3. Norgaard, Richard B. and Paul Baer. 2005. Collectively Seeing Complex Systems: The Nature of the Problem. BioScience 55(11): 953-960.

4. Norgaard, Richard B. and Paul Baer. 2005. Collectively Seeing Climate Change: The Limits of Formal Models. BioScience  55(11): 961-966.

5. Lélé, Sharachchandra and Richard B. Norgaard. 2005. Practicing Interdisciplinarity. BioScience  55(11): 967-975.

6. Norgaard, Richard B., Phoebe Bernard, and Patrick Lavelle. 2006. Assessing Natural Capital Across Scales: Lessons from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Chapter 5 in Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and Practice edited by James Aronson, Sue J. Milton, and James Blignaut. Island Press.