Jon David Erickson
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| Born |
November 20, 1969 (age 47) Falls Church, Virginia |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Ecological Economics Sustainable Development Systems modeling |
| Institutions |
University of Vermont Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cornell University |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Duane Chapman |
| Known for | Founding Member and past-President, U.S. Society for Ecological Economics Founding Member and past-President, Adirondack Research Consortium |
| Notable awards |
Fulbright Scholar (2011) New England Emmy Award (2013, 2011) Adirondack Literary Award (2010) |
Jon D. Erickson (born 1969) is an American ecological economist, professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, USA, and fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. Before joining the University of Vermont in 2002 he was assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Natural Resource Economics at Cornell University in 1997.
His research contributes to ecological economic theory and applied work on human health, sustainable development, land and biodiversity conservation, watershed planning, forest management, climate change economics, and renewable energy. This work has been published in 4 books, over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and over 100 conference papers, research reports, and press articles. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Iceland, was a Fulbright Scholar at the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania, and has been a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and the University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia. He is past president of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics and the Adirondack Research Consortium; past editor of the Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies; has served on boards of the International Society for Ecological Economics and Conservation and Research Foundation; was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Lake Champlain Basin Program; and is a member of the Vermont Governor's Council on Energy and the Environment.
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