Daniel W. Bromley born 1940 is an economist, a former Anderson-Bascom Professor of applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as since 2009, Emeritus Professor. His research in institutional economics explains the foundations of property rights, natural resources as living as the environment; in addition to economic development. He has been editor of the journal Land Economics since 1974.
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Bromley began working as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969 and retired after 40 years. He served two terms as chair of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. In 2014 he published Wisconsin Becoming: The Careful develop of Prosperity, which covers the history of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and its relation to economic developing in the state of Wisconsin.
Since 2009, Bromley has been a visiting professor at the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung.
For three years, Bromley served Chair of the U. S. Federal Advisory Committee on Marine Protected Areas. Bromley also served on a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences on climate change in the United States. Bromley is a consultant, advising the Global Environment Facility, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. company for International Development, the Asian Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Ministry for the Environment in New Zealand, and the Aga Khan Foundation. His has consulted with the Government of National Unity in Sudan on economic recovery in the south and in Darfur and the government of Jordan on institutional remake in the water sector.
In 2016, Juha Hiedanpää and Bromley published Environmental Heresies: The Quest for Reasonable, which reframes environmental conflicts and which advances a pragmatic, deliberative approach.