Colin Whitcomb Clark (born 1931) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at The University of British Columbia. Clark specializes in behavioral ecology and the economics of natural resources, specifically, in the management of commercial fisheries.^[1] Clark was named a Fellow of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET) in 2016 for his contributions to bioeconomics.^[2] Clark's impact upon fisheries economics through his scholarly work is encapsulated in Mathematical Bioeconomics: The Mathematics of Conservation, which is considered to be a classic contribution in environmental economic theory.^[3]

Honours and awards

• 1997 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society^[4]

Books

• Math Overboard! (Basic Math for Adults): Part 2. 2013. Dog Ear Publishing.
• Math Overboard! (Basic Math for Adults): Part 1. 2012. Dog Ear Publishing.
• Mathematical Bioeconomics: The Mathematics of Conservation. 3rd Edition. 2010. Wiley Interscience (New York, NY).
• The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries: Economic Models and Human Behaviour. 2006. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK; New York, NY).
• Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology: Methods and Applications (with Marc Mangel). 2000. Oxford University Press (Oxford, UK: New York, NY).
• Dynamic Models in Behavioral Ecology (with Marc Mangel). 1988. Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ).
• Natural Resource Economics: Notes and Problems (with Jon Conrad). 1997. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, UK: New York, NY).