Richard Norgaard

Richard Norgaard, Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources

University of California, Berkeley

"Interdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene: Lessons from California’s Water Wars Woes"

Professor Norgaard is an eclectic scholar with one solely authored book; five co-auth­or­­ed and co-edited books, four additional multi-authored monographs, and over 200 other publica­tions in environmental and ecological economics, envir­on­mental sociology, environmental episte­mology, and other fields. He is recognized within the field of eco­no­mics (Who’s Who in Economics, Millennium Edi­tion, and The Changing Face of Econo­mics: Conver­sations with Cutting Edge Economists 2004) and the field of ecological economics (Kenneth E. Boulding Award, 2006) for both his cri­tiques of and contributions to economics even while most of his effort goes to working across disciplinary ways of understanding. The American Associa­tion for the Advance­ment of Science elected Norgaard to the status of “Fellow” in 2007. His research emphasizes how the resolution of complex socio-envir­on­­men­tal problems chal­len­ges modern beliefs about science and policy ­­and ex­plores development as a pro­cess of coevolution between social and environ­mental systems. His writing is informed through work on energy, water, environment, and develop­ment issues around the globe­ with different periods of his career emphasizing Alaska, Brazil, and Calif­or­nia.