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CASSE speakers are available throughout the world for lecturing on economic growth, the steady state economy, and related topics. Speaking venues include college and university seminars and symposia, professional society conferences, NGO meetings, civic organization events, and government briefings. Please contact us if you would like to hear from one of our speakers or if you are interested in joining our speakers network. And please feel free to view our presentations and download them for your own use.

Our Speakers

BabalolaFola Babalola, CASSE Director of African Operations
Ibadan, Nigeria

Fola is a Ph.D. candidate in forest economics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has completed numerous projects that combine ecological and economic expertise, including a cost-benefit analysis of seedling production, design of incentives in the agroforestry industry, development of forest policy, and socioeconomic valuation of non-timber forest products. Fola has received a number of scholarships, fellowships and research grants. His publications have appeared in scientific journals, proceedings, and technical reports. His current focus is on sustainable management and conservation of forest biodiversity in the face of economic growth.

BoseDevashis Bose, Senior Lecturer in Economics, DDR College
Assam, India

Devashis has a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Dibrugarh University, and has been teaching economics in provincial colleges under the government of Assam in India for a number of years. He conducts research in environmental economics and management pertaining to the oil industry and regularly presents papers at state, regional, national and international conferences. He has also published many articles pertaining to economic and environmental issues in journals and newspapers. Devashis is committed to eradication of poverty, sustainable development, and social and economic justice.

Stephen Coghlan, Assistant Professor of Freshwater Fisheries Ecology, University of Maine
Orono, Maine, USA

Stephen’s research interests encompass individual- and community-level processes relating to applied fisheries ecology and management. He is working closely with state and federal agencies in building a collaborative research program around issues important to the ecology and management of Maine’s freshwater fish and aquatic habitats, focusing on the interactive ecology of native and exotic species, the effects of land-use patterns on aquatic communities and habitats, niche partitioning, and bioenergetic implications of resource selection. View his personal website.

Brian CzechBrian Czech, CASSE President
Arlington, Virginia, USA

Brian has a Ph.D. in renewable natural resources from the University of Arizona and is a certified wildlife biologist. He applies his training and experience to economic issues, especially macroeconomic policy. He has 20 years of experience in federal, state, and tribal governments with duties ranging from firefighting to managing elk herds to developing national conservation policies. Brian is also a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, where he teaches ecological economics and endangered species policy. A prolific author, Brian wrote the book Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, which calls for an end to reckless economic growth. He has lectured extensively on the topics of economic growth and the steady state economy.

PhotoDaweWebNeil Dawe, Director, Qualicum Institute
Parksville, British Columbia, Canada

Neil is a registered professional biologist who lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He retired from the Canadian Wildlife Service in 2006 after 31 years, during which time he managed National Wildlife Areas and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries and worked to protect migratory birds and their habitat. His current professional efforts focus on the preservation of global biodiversity by addressing the limiting factor of biodiversity conservation on the Earth today: economic growth. He regularly delivers presentations and writes newspaper columns on this topic. View his personal website.

DieterichMartin Dieterich, Associate Professor, Institute of Landscape and Vegetation Ecology, Agricultural University of Hohenheim; Director, Institute for Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation
Hohenheim, Germany

Martin has a Ph.D. in stream ecology from Oregon State University. He is the co-founder of a conservation NGO and the current president of the European Section of the Society for Conservation Biology. Martin has delivered many lectures integrating ecology, economics and ethics in order to develop pathways for economic development that encompass long-term conservation interests. He works with farmers on the integration of land use and nature conservation, and consistently favors practical approaches to conservation and sustainability.

Rob DietzRob Dietz, CASSE Executive Director
Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Rob has experience in the public and private sectors working on solutions to natural resource problems using the tools of both economics and the natural sciences. He has researched a number of sustainability issues at various scales, including local-scale housing development, state policies for clean air, regional transportation initiatives, and national environmental law and policy. He has a master’s degree from Virginia Tech in environmental science and engineering and an undergraduate degree in economics and environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He frequently develops and presents slideshows on steady state economics.

FarleyJosh Farley, Professor of Ecological Economics, Gund Institute, University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont, USA

Josh has a Ph.D. in agricultural,resource and managerial economics from Cornell University. His research interests include mechanisms for allocating resources under local control and national sovereignty that generate global public goods, developing transdisciplinary case study approaches to environmental problem solving as an educational tool, ecological restoration of rainforest ecosystems, economic globalization, ecosystem valuation, watershed management, and international development. With Herman Daly, Josh cowrote Ecological Economics, a transdisciplinary text book. View his personal website.

FleischnerTom Fleischner, Professor of Environmental Studies, Prescott College
Prescott, Arizona, USA

Tom has a Ph.D. in environmental studies from The Union Institute. He has worked as a field ecologist from the Alaskan Arctic to the Gulf of California, Mexico and Gulf of Maine. He co-founded the North Cascades Institute, a nonprofit environmental field school in Washington State. He is a past member of Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology, and past President of its Colorado Plateau Chapter. Tom has written two books and published numerous professional articles on topics ranging from the conservation impacts of livestock grazing to the role of natural history in public policy. He developed the first undergraduate conservation biology course in the USA, and is committed to interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and solving environmental conflicts. View his personal website.

PhotoGroverWebMansi Grover, CASSE Research Director
Arlington, Virginia, USA

Mansi is a professor of natural resource economics, ecological economics, and conservation ecology. She has a Ph.D. in natural resource economics from Virginia Tech, as well as a master’s degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. She has completed projects with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Carbon Offset Coalition, Environmental Protection Agency, and Chesapeake Bay Program. Her research interests include risk and uncertainty analysis/modeling in environmental markets, economic and environmental sustainability, time series analysis, and ecological economics. View her personal website.

HuettmannFalk Huettmann, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Falk received his Ph.D. from the University of New Brunswick where he studied GIS and pelagic seabird distributions in the Atlantic and Arctic. He directs a variety of wildlife and habitat research projects in the EWHALE lab at the Institute of Arctic Biology. Falk has received several international research awards and is currently part of the NCEAS Alternative Modeling Methods Working Group in St. Barbara, California. Besides modeling, some of his research deals with tropical ecology and the Russian Far East. His research on the ecology of big landscapes and seascapes has driven home the connections between economic and ecological systems. He has delivered many presentations on the effects of human economic activities on natural systems. View his personal website.

JonesJay Jones, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, University of La Verne
La Verne, California, USA

Jay has a broad academic background, with diverse research and work experience. His background includes work as a Senior Research Geobotanist , conducting oil and gas exploration (ARCO), a Naturalist/Interpreter (National Park Service), a Remote Sensing Consultant (NASA/Lockheed), and an Archaeobotanist (Galilee – Sepphoris Acropolis Excavations). He is at home in the field conducting floral surveys, as well as in the laboratory working with complex analytical instrumentation. As Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Jay has taught a very broad range of courses including versions of an interdisciplinary course entitled: Toward a Sustainable Planet. Many of these courses have field components in which faculty and students see first hand, the global impact of the human species. His current primary focus is on finding interdisciplinary paths toward sustainability. View his personal website.

McPhersonGuy McPherson, Professor of Natural Resources, University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, USA

Guy received a Ph.D. in range science from Texas Tech University. He began his career as a terrestrial plant ecologist, but his interests have evolved to include the development and creative application of ecological theory within the context of biological conservation. His research and teaching efforts articulate the links between (1) environmental protection, social justice, and the human economy and (2) science and its application. Guy also advises students interested in sustainability. View his personal website.

MillsJulianne Mills, Post-Doctoral Fellow of Environmental Demography/Geography, Davidson College Economics Department
Davidson, North Carolina, USA

Julianne holds a Ph.D. in evolution, ecology, and organismal biology from Ohio State University. With a background in international studies, Julianne combines the biological and social sciences, addressing such themes as sustainability, international development, alleviation of poverty, and global biodiversity conservation. Her current work deals with the role of trade and consumption in determining the interaction between income and conservation.

imgMosleyGeoff Mosley, CASSE Director of Australian Operations
Hurstbridge, Victoria, Australia

Geoff is a Councillor and former CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). He is an active member of the World Commission on Protected Areas and previously served as a member of the IUCN Council. He has been working as a volunteer to educate fellow citizens on the means to achieve a sustainable society.

Oneill_WebPhotoDan O’Neill, CASSE Director of European Operations
Leeds, United Kingdom

Dan is a Ph.D. candidate in ecological economics at the University of Leeds. His research interests include steady state economics, biophysical limits to growth, environmental indicators, alternative ways of measuring human progress, and urban planning. He has worked in both the public and private sectors in areas such as regional planning and energy management. Dan holds a master of environmental studies degree from Dalhousie University and an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Victoria. He frequently presents topics related to steady state economics at scientific conferences and various media outlets.

RayfieldBronwynBronwyn Rayfield, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Drawing on an educational background in statistics and ecology, Bronwyn undertakes research on biodiversity and protected area design. Her Ph.D. dissertation lays out a framework for quantifying habitat connectivity and incorporating measures of connectivity into conservation planning. She spent her formative years in southeast Asia and has an interest in applying conservation theory in conjunction with poverty alleviation in developing countries.

Reynolds_HeatherHeather Reynolds, Associate Professor of Biology, Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Heather has a Ph.D. in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in plant ecology from the University of Connecticut. As a plant community ecologist, her research interests include the plant-soil-microbial ecology of sustainable biofuel production and exotic species invasions, and she teaches service-learning courses that engage students at the interface of science and society. She is co-editor of a forthcoming book from Indiana Press on environmental literacy. As a long-term member of the City of Bloomington Environmental Commission, Heather has promoted awareness of steady state economics, ecosystem services, and other dimensions of sustainability at the municipal level. View her personal website.

RichardsonRobert Richardson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Robby holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics. His teaching, research, and outreach program focuses broadly on natural resource-based tourism and sustainable development. His research interests include the economic effects of climate change, the economic benefits of wilderness protection, and the relationship between tourism and poverty in developing countries. Robby has also completed several studies of the economic benefits of wilderness areas in the western USA, including the values of recreational uses and ecosystem services. View his personal website.

robinsonChristopher Robinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
Potsdam, New York, USA

Chris has a Ph.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Albany. His research interests cleave in two distinct directions. He studies contemporary political theory as a series of responses to political trauma (genocide, war, the Holocaust) and ecological catastrophe. His second area of scholarly interest is the politics of sustainable development, where he is formulating a position called “Political Ecology” that considers the larger political effects of acknowledging the illogic of limitless economic growth on a planet of limited natural resources. View his personal website.

RosalesJon Rosales, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, St. Lawrence University
Canton, New York, USA

Jon holds a Ph.D. in conservation biology from the University of Minnesota. His courses and research focus on international environmental policy. Prior to his work in conservation biology and environmental policy, he was an economics instructor at Brown Institute and Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Minnesota. Jon has also worked as a ski instructor, chauffeur, and laborer in a salmon canning factory in Alaska. He was born in Ecuador to American parents and lived in Mexico until age 13. His research interests include political economy, science policy, climate change, indigenous knowledge, limits to growth, old-growth forests, reforestation, and equity issues related to environmental affairs. View his personal website.

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