Jon Erickson is Professor of Ecological Economics and Interim Dean at the Rubenstein

School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. He teaches both

undergraduate and graduate courses in ecological economics (EE); leads an international

service-learning program in the Dominican Republic focused on human rights and health in migrant

communities; co-supervises a graduate certificate program in EE; and leads a research program on

both the theoretical development of EE and applied work on human and ecosystem health, rural

livelihoods, regional sustainable development, land and biodiversity conservation, watershed

planning, forest management, climate change policy, and renewable energy technology. He has

published extensively on these topics in journals such as Science, Ecological Economics, Land

Economics, Climatic Change, Bioscience, Energy Policy, and Landscape and Urban Planning. Dr.

Erickson’s work on problem-based learning in EE was published with Josh Farley and Herman Daly in a

workbook with Island Press (2005), and recognized by University of Vermont’s inaugural

service-learning award. His most recent co-edited book on The Great Conservation Experiment: Voices

from the Adirondack Park was published by Syracuse University Press in July 2009. He is also

president of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, past president of the Adirondack Research

Consortium (ARC), past board member of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and

currently serves as board member of the ARC, trustee of the Conservation and Research Foundation,

executive editor of the Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies, and editorial board member of

Environmental Policy and Governance and Ecological Economics Reviews.