Celebrating Herman Daly
On June 1 at 11 a.m. the 2009 USSEE Conference will be celebrating Herman Daly’s contribution to ecological economics. Joshua Farley from the University of Vermont will chair the event.
This symposium celebrates Herman Daly’s contributions on the occasion of his 70th birthday. This session will invite speakers whose work directly engages with the central themes in Herman’s oeuvre. Panelist will include Robert Costanza, Deepak Malghan and Robert Goodland.
Herman Daly is a professor at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park in the United States.
He was Senior Economist in the Environment Department of the World Bank, where he helped to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America.
Before joining the World Bank, Daly was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. He is a co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics.
He is also a recipient of, an Honorary Right Livelihood Award (the alternative Nobel Prize), the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Sophie Prize (Norway), the Kenneth E. Boulding Award (1994) and the Leontief Prize from the Global Development and Environment Institute.
Herman Daly will give a lunch speech at 12:30 p.m. at the Mary Gray Center. For more information on the conference visit their website at https://www.ussee.org/conference09/. You will find registration information and schedule updates for the conference.