Partha Dasgupta: Difference between revisions

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| name = Partha Sarathi Dasgupta

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| awards = {{ubl|Volvo Environment|J K Galbraith Prize|Zayed|Blue Planet|Tyler}} Kew International Medal

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==Personal life==

Dasgupta has been honoured by elections as: Fellow of the [[Econometric Society]]<ref name=who /> (1975); Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (1989); Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] (2004); Fellow of the [[Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory]], 2013; Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017; Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019; Fellow of the Society for Cost-Benefit Analysis; Member of the [[Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences]] (1997); Fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] (formally the Academy of Science for the Developing World), 2001; Member of [[Academia Europaea]] (2009); Foreign Member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] (1991);<ref name=who /> Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name=who /> (1991); Foreign Associate of the [[US National Academy of Sciences]] (2001); Foreign Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] (2005);<ref name=who /> Foreign Member of [[Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti]] (2009); Honorary Fellow of the [[London School of Economics]] (1994<ref name="efdinitiative.org"/>); Honorary Fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (2010); Honorary Member of the [[American Economic Association]] (1997); Distinguished Fellow, [[Center for Economic Studies|CES]], [[University of Munich]], 2011; and President of the [[Royal Economic Society]] (1998–2001), the [[European Economic Association]] (1999), Section F (Economics) of the BA ([[British Association for the Advancement of Science]]) Festival of Science (2006), and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2010–2011).

 

 

Two collections of essays have been published in his honour:

"Sustainable Consumption: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives in Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta," edited by D. Southerton and A. Ulph (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2014.

 

 

Dasgupta was co-recipient (with [[Karl-Göran Mäler]]) of the 2002 [[Volvo Environment Prize]];<ref>[https://www.environment-prize.com Volvo Environment Prize]</ref> and (also with Mäler) of the 2004 Boulding Award of the [[International Society for Ecological Economics]];,<ref>[https://www.isecoeco.org/boulding-award/ Kenneth E. Boulding Award]</ref> co-recipient (with Geoffrey Heal) of the [[Association of Environmental and Resource Economists]]' "Publication of Enduring Quality Award 2003" for their book, Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; recipient of the [[PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award]], 2007, of the [[American Agricultural Economics Association]]; recipient of the [[Zayed International Environment Prize]] (II: scientific and technological achievements) in 2011; and recipient of the European Lifetime Achievement Award (in Environmental and Resource Economics) from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2014. In 2007, together with [[Eric Maskin]] he was awarded the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, a joint prize of the Kempe Foundation and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He was awarded the 2015 [[Blue Planet Prize]] for Environmental Research,<ref name="bpa">{{Cite web|url=https://scienceportal.jst.go.jp/news/newsflash_review/newsflash/2015/06/20150619_02.html|title=ブループラネット賞英米2経済学者に|date=2015-06-19|publisher=SciencePortal ([[:w:ja:科学技術振興機構|Japan Science and Technology Agency]])|language=ja|access-date=2015-08-09}}</ref> the 2016 [[Tyler Prize]], and the Kew International Medal, 2021 of the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew. In 2022 he was honoured by Freedom of the City of London by Special Invitation.