Herman Daly Award

This award is given in honor of Herman Daly, one of the visionaries who founded the field of ecological economics. The award is designed to recognize individuals who have connected ecological economic thinking to practical applications and implementation of solutions that are sustainable in scale, equitable in distribution and efficient in allocation. An ad-hoc Awards committee, composed of USSEE Board members, convenes prior to the biennial conference, no later than February of the conference year. The committee actively seeks nominations for the award, researches the candidates, and makes a recommendation to the USSEE board as a whole. The board then votes on the award. The award is given in conjunction with the US Society for Ecological Economics biennial conference.

Previous Awardees:

David Batker, Earth Economics (2003)

Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network (2005)

Gretchen Daily, Stanford University (2007)

John Gowdy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2009)

Juliet Schor, Boston College (2011)

Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff Project (2013)

William Rees, University of British Columbia (2015)

Peter Brown, McGill University (2017)

Jonathan Harris, Tufts University (2019)

Tania Briceno (2022)

Bernardo Aguilar Award

This award is given in honor of Bernardo Aguilar, a longtime member of ISEE and USSEE, a former member of the ISEE Board and the USSEE Board. The Bernardo Aguilar Award was established in 2007 and is given to a person nominated and selected by students. The award was created to recognize a professional who has inspired students through teaching, research, ideas, and/or mentoring in ecological economics.

Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) Steering Committee (2015)

Mary Mellor, Northumbria University (2017)

Mahadev Bhat, Florida International University (2019)