Joshua Farley
Professor
Community Development and Applied Economics
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
BIO
Josh Farley is an ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration and a Fellow in the Gund Institute for Environment. He has previously served as program director at the School for Field Studies, Centre for Rainforest Studies; Executive Director of the University of Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics; adjunct faculty and licensed examiner at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; and Fulbright Fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He is past President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and the point person for the Ecological Economics Network Strategy Center, part of the Leadership for the Ecozoic Initiative with McGill University.
His broad research interests focus on the design of an economy capable of balancing what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically, and ethically desirable. His current research focuses on the economics of essential resources (e.g. food, energy, water, information, and ecosystem services), social dilemmas, the democratization of monetary and financial systems, ecosystem services (defined as nature’s benefits to the biotic system of which humans are a part), the evolution of cooperation, agroecology, and ecology rehabilitation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the economics of information, and The Commons. He works on these projects with an exceptional group of PhD and MS students.
Area(s) of expertise
Ecological economics, Ecological macroeconomics, Social dilemmas, Evolution of cooperation, Policies for promoting regenerative agriculture
Bio
Josh Farley is an ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration and a Fellow in the Gund Institute for Environment. He has previously served as program director at the School for Field Studies, Centre for Rainforest Studies; Executive Director of the University of Maryland International Institute for Ecological Economics; adjunct faculty and licensed examiner at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; and Fulbright Fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He is past President of the International Society for Ecological Economics and the point person for the Ecological Economics Network Strategy Center, part of the Leadership for the Ecozoic Initiative with McGill University.
His broad research interests focus on the design of an economy capable of balancing what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically, and ethically desirable. His current research focuses on the economics of essential resources (e.g. food, energy, water, information, and ecosystem services), social dilemmas, the democratization of monetary and financial systems, ecosystem services (defined as nature’s benefits to the biotic system of which humans are a part), the evolution of cooperation, agroecology, and ecology rehabilitation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, the economics of information, and The Commons. He works on these projects with an exceptional group of PhD and MS students.
Areas of Expertise
Ecological economics, Ecological macroeconomics, Social dilemmas, Evolution of cooperation, Policies for promoting regenerative agriculture