Cutler J. Cleveland (born January 21, 1956) is an author, consultant, academic, and business executive. His research primarily involves natural resources, energy use, and their related economies. Dr. Cleveland is the editor-in-chief of the ''Encyclopedia of Energy'' and winner of an

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award. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Digital Universe ''

Encyclopedia of Earth The ''Encyclopedia of Earth'' (abbreviated ''EoE'') is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The ''Encyclopedia'' is described as a free, fully searchable collection of articles ...

''.

Early life

Cutler Cleveland holds a B.S. in

Ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overl ...

and Systematics from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, a M.S. in

Marine Science Oceanography (), also known as oceanology and ocean science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dyna ...

from

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...

,Agricultural Sustainability Institute
at

University of California Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The instit ...

and a Ph.D. in

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

in 1988.Cutler's faculty profile
at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

Career

Cleveland is Professor of

and

Environment Environment most often refers to: __NOTOC__ * Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally * Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...

, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (CEES). Cleveland is a member of the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Energy Statistics, an advisory group to the

Department of Energy A Ministry of Energy or Department of Energy is a government department in some countries that typically oversees the production of fuel and electricity; in the United States, however, it manages nuclear weapons development and conducts energy-re ...

. He has been a consultant to private and public organizations, including the

Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offic ...

, the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

Commission on Sustainable Development,

Charles River Associates Charles River Associates (legally CRA International, Inc.) is a global consulting firm headquartered in Boston. Practice areas Their practices include: aerospace & defense, antitrust & competition economics, auctions & competitive bidding, climat ...

, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the

US Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United States. ...

, and the

United States Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it ...

. He has been published in ''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...

'', ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...

'', ''

Energy In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of hea ...

'', '' Resource and Energy Economics'', and '' Ecological Economics''. Cleveland has received a number of awards for his work, including an Adelman-Frankel Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics for "unique and innovative contributions to the field of energy economics"."The Future of Energy: Applying Ecological Economics to Global Issues"
SustainablePath.org He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics, the

, and the National Wildlife Federation.

Personal life

Cutler Cleveland is married to Karen Lefkowitz. They have two children, Molly Alexandra Cleveland and Sam Cutler Cleveland.

Works

Books

*Cleveland, Cutler J.; Stern, David I.; Costanza, Robert (Eds.) ''The Economics of Nature and the Nature of Economics'', Advances in Ecological Economics Series, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. *Cleveland, Cutler J.; Morris, Christopher G. (Eds.) ''Dictionary of Energy: Expanded Edition'', Elsevier Science; 2009. *Hall, Charles A. S.; Cleveland, Cutler J.; Kaufmann, Robert. ''Energy and Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process'', University Press of Colorado, 1992. *Cleveland, Cutler J.; Kaufman, Robert K. ''Environmental Science'', McGraw-Hill, 2007. *Cleveland, Cutler J. (Ed.) ''Concise Encyclopedia of the History of Energy'', Academic Press, 2009. *Cleveland, Cutler J. ''Energy and the Environment'', Asian Development Bank, 2001.

Journal articles

References

External links

Faculty profile
at Boston University
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
at Boston University {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleveland, Cutler J. 1956 births Living people Cornell University alumni Ecological economists 21st-century American economists University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni