Daniel P. Loucks is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Institute of Public Affairs at Cornell University. His research focuses on the application of systems analysis, economic theory, ecology, and environmental engineering to problems in regional development and environmental quality management. He has taught at a variety of universities in the United States, Australia and Europe and has been a consultant to international, governmental and private organizations dealing with regional development issues. He served as an economist at the World Bank and as a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Loucks was a naval aviator and eventually commanded the largest naval air transport squadron in America. He is the co-editor (with J. S. Gladwell) of Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems.