Jon Erickson

Jon D. Erickson is Associate Professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont, and Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. From 1997 to 2002 he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he helped build the first Ph.D. program in Ecological Economics. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Natural Resource Economics from Cornell University, B.S. and A.S. degrees in Business Management from Cornell and North Country Community College, and was Lecturer and Visiting Professor in statistics at Cornell and the University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia.

His research includes work on climate change economics and policy, renewable energy development, greenhouse gas emissions and energy modeling, and community-based watershed management, published in over 40 articles including the journals Science, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, Land Economics, World Development, and Energy Policy.

His transdisciplinary, problem-based research approach and diverse experience in teaching ecological economics in and out of the classroom is captured in a new book with Josh Farley and Herman Daly on Ecological Economics: a Workbook on Problem-Based Learning (Island Press, 2005).  Other forthcoming books include Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management (Elsevier) and The Great Experiment in Conservation: Light from the Adirondack Prism (Syracuse University Press). He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological economics and topical problem-based courses in forest resource values, community empowerment and health education through grassroots sports, and regional sustainable development, and was recently honored with UVM’s first Service Learning Award. He has served on the board of directors of the International and U.S. Societies for Ecological Economics, and is past president of the Adirondack Research Consortium.

Jon lives in South Burlington, Vermont with his wife Pat, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science faculty at UVM, and their two boys, Louis and Jon, aspiring extreme skiers and movie makers.