Ph.D. ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Economics including Steady State

Bio
Brian Czech is a Ph.D. ecologist and Certified Wildlife Biologist who has applied his training and experience to economic issues, especially macroeconomic policy as it affects the environment and national security. He is a civil servant with 20 years of experience in federal, state, and tribal governments. His duties have ranged from firefighting to managing elk herds to developing national conservation policies. Czech is also a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech???s Northern Campus in Falls Church, Virginia, where he has developed courses in ecological economics and endangered species policy and management. He has had more than 50 articles published in over 20 scientific and professional journals, indicating the breadth of his research.

Czech is the president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), a non-profit organization based in Arlington, Virginia. The mission of CASSE is to educate the public and policy makers on the fundamental conflict between economic growth and: 1) environmental protection; 2) economic sustainability; 3) national security, and; 4) international stability. Czech believes that increasing production and consumption of goods and services was a good thing for most of American history, but that the economy exceeded its optimum size during the latter decades of the 20th century, and is now best described as ???uneconomic growth.???

Czech is the author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, which calls for replacing the national goal of economic growth with the goal of a steady state economy and the development of a different attitude toward conspicuous consumption. He is also the author (with Paul R. Krausman) of The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy, a textbook for graduate courses on the Endangered Species Act and a primer for policy makers.

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