Dr. Anthony B. Lumby

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Association mourns the passing of Dr. Anthony B. Lumby, 2nd Elected President of the Association, past Chair of the Advisory Board, and Editor of the journal Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, at 4PM on Dec. 6th, 2009 after a battle with cancer. Dr. Lumby, most recently Professor and Head of the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, held a PhD from the University of Natal, was an Honorary Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and was Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Anthony was a dear colleague, a wonderful friend, and one of the most dedicated members of the IEA family. His expertise was in academic aspects of economics education, in particular the application of environmental economics to environmental issues in South Africa. His teaching focused primarily on environmental economics at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels with an emphasis on the use of environmental economics in addressing environmental problems and resource management questions, while his research activities recently focused on environmental economics and selected issues in economic history with particular reference to South Africa and international interactions. He supervised more than fifty Honors research essays, twenty-five Masters theses, and eight doctoral candidates, and had an extensive portfolio of theoretical and applied courses taught in economics, business, and entrepreneurship, all with environmental slant or content. His background included membership in the Economic History Society of Southern Africa, the Economic Society of South Africa, the EDINEB (Education Innovations in Economics and Business), the Global Warming International Association, as well as the IEA. With nearly 70 conference papers and 60 publications to his name, Anthony was a prolific scholar who always managed to work in a positive fashion with colleagues both within and outside of his field.

We in the IEA will miss you Anthony, and we hope that you rest now in a place where all environmental externalities are accounted for, WTP really does equal WTA, and the tally sheets have all balanced well in your favor.