Joanne Burgess Barbier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University, where she is also affiliated with the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Dr Burgess is an environmental and natural resource economist with special interests in forest land use, wildlife management, trade and environment, and sustainability. She has been a consultant and policy analyst for various national, international, and non-governmental agencies, including UN organizations, the World Bank, and the OECD. She has authored over 45 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, written 5 books, and published in popular journals. Dr Burgess has over 6,900 citations to her work. The textbook, Economics for a Sustainable World: Introduction to Natural Resource and Environmental Economics by E.B. Barbier and J.C. Burgess, 2025, is written for undergraduate students with little or no exposure to economics. This introductory textbook offers a new perspective on environmental economics for the 21st century. Previously published is the book Economics of the SDGs: Putting the Sustainable Development Goals into Practice, by E.B. Barbier and J.C. Burgess. 2021 Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York.
