Edward Barbier
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Edward Barbier | |
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| Born | July 22, 1957 |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, Professor |
| Awards | Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2015) |
Edward Barbier (born 1957) is an environmental and resource economist known for promoting a so-called Green New Deal in response to the climate crisis.[1] He holds the title of University Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Colorado State University.
Barbier is known, since 1989, for the promotion of frameworks for valuing nature in economic terms.[2] In 2009, He authored the United Nations’ Global Green New Deal, which was a strategy for greening the global economic recovery after the Great Recession.[3] In 2010, he further elaborated on this strategy in 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.[4] He has also proposed strategies for the G20 and G7 on how best to green the post-COVID economic recovery.[5][6]
Barbier has influenced international environmental policy, including influence with the Australian Greens Party.[7] Barbier’s 1987 article[8] is credited as the first representation of sustainability in terms of the popular three intersecting circles, or Venn diagram.[9] He has also written extensively on the role of natural capital in sustainable development.[10]
