Jon D. Erickson (born 1969) is an American
ecological economist, professor of sustainability science and policy at the
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources of the
University of Vermont
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in
Burlington, Vermont
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, United States, and fellow of the
Gund Institute for Environment.
Career
Before joining the University of Vermont in 2002 he was assistant professor in the Department of Economics at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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in
Troy, New York
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, US. He completed his Ph.D. in natural resource economics at
Cornell University
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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 6 books, over 70 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
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, was a
Fulbright Scholar
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at the
Sokoine University of Agriculture
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Historically, SUA traces its roots to 1965 when ...
in Tanzania, and has been a visiting professor at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
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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
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Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
* ''International'' (The T ...
and Conservation and Research Foundation; was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the
Lake Champlain Basin Program and the Vermont Governor's Council on Energy and the Environment.
Erickson is also a social entrepreneur, starting and incorporating a number of non-governmental organizations and working intently at the science to policy interface. He co-founded Bright Blue EcoMedia with documentary film producer Victor Guadagno and author Amy Siedl, the non-profit media company that produced the two-time New England Emmy Award-winning ''Bloom film series''. Bloom is a four-part
PBS
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series on the causes and solutions to water pollution and
eutrophication
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in America's rivers and lakes, narrated by Academy award-winning actor
Chris Cooper
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, and including interviews with environmental scholars
Bill McKibben
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,
Maude Barlow and
John Todd. His latest film collaboration was writing and directin
Waking the Sleeping Giantwit
Jacob Smith an award-winning, feature-length documentary on the 2016 presidential campaign of
Senator Bernie Sanders. He also co-founded the HIV/AIDS prevention education program ''Futbol para la Vida'' with Yanlico Munesi Dusdal in the Dominican Republic (DR), modeled after the international
Grassroot Soccer program and now with programs for at-risk youth throughout the DR and Haiti managed by the Dominican DREAM Project. In Vermont policy development, his collaboration on the first state-level
Genuine Progress Indicator led to a 2012 law to initiate the use of GPI in state policy and budget analysis, and his crowd-sourced media project with Bright Blue led to the Vermont legislature's declaration of March 21, 2012, as Vermont Energy Independence Day.
Selected work
Books
* Erickson, J.D.
''The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics'' Island Press, Washington, DC, 2022.
*
Costanza, R., Erickson, J.D., Farley, J. and I. Kubiszewski (Eds.), ''Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: a Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics'', 26 chs., Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2020.
* Porter, W.F., Erickson, J.D. and
R.S. Whaley (Eds.), ''The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondacks'', Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2009.
[Winner of the 201]
Adirondack Center for Writing
Adirondack Literary Award for Non-Fiction
* Erickson, J.D. and J.M. Gowdy (Eds.), ''Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application'', Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2007.
* Erickson, J.D., Messner, F. and I. Ring (Eds.), ''Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management'', Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2007.
* Farley, J., Erickson, J.D. and
H.E. Daly, ''Ecological Economics: a Workbook for Problem-Based Learning'', Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2005.
Selected articles
*Hong, B., Limburg, K.E., Erickson, J.D., Gowdy, J.M., Nowosielski, A., Polimeni, J. and K. Stainbrook,
Connecting the Ecological-Economic Dots in Human-Dominated Watersheds: Models to Link Socio-Economic Activities on the Landscape to Stream Ecosystem Health" ''Landscape and Urban Planning'' 91(2): 78–87, 2009.
* Mazet, J.M., Clifford, D., Coppolillo, P.B., Deolalikar, A.B., Erickson, J.D. and R.R. Kazwala,
A 'One Health' Approach to Address Emerging Zoonoses: The HALI Project in Tanzania" ''PLoS Medicine'' 6(12): e1000190, 2009.
* Gowdy, J.M. and J.D. Erickson,
Ecological Economics at a Crossroads" ''Ecological Economics'', 53(1): 17–20, 2005.
* Gowdy, J.M. and J.D. Erickson,
The Approach of Ecological Economics" ''Cambridge Journal of Economics'' 29(2): 207–222, 2005.
* Erickson, J.D. and J.M. Gowdy,
Resource Use, Institutions, and Sustainability: A Tale of Two Pacific Island Cultures" ''Land Economics'' 76(3): 345–354, 2000.
* Erickson, J.D., Chapman, D., Fahey, T.J. and M.J. Christ,
Nonrenewability in Forest Rotations: Implications for Economic and Ecological Sustainability" ''Ecological Economics'' 31(1): 91–106, 1999.
* Erickson, J.D. and D. Chapman,
Photovoltaic Technology: Markets, Economics, and Development" ''World Development'' 23(7): 1129–1141, July 1995.
* Erickson, J.D., Chapman, D. and R. Johnny,
Monitored Retrievable Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Indian Country: Liability, Sovereignty, and Socioeconomics" ''American Indian Law Review'' 19(1): 73–103, 1994.
* Erickson, J.D.,
From Ecology to Economics: the Case Against CO2 Fertilization" ''Ecological Economics'' 8: 157–175, 1993.
Films
* Director, Writer, and Producer
Waking the Sleeping Giant: the Making of a Political Revolution Premiere at
Thin Line Fest, Denton, Texas, April 19, 2017.
* Executive Producer, ''The Resilient Ones'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, May 15, 2014.
* Producer, ''Vermont Energy Independence Day'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, April 25, 2013.
* Producer / Executive Producer, ''Lake Defenders'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, October 18, 2012.
* Executive Producer, ''Bloom PBS film series'':
:#''Bloom: the Plight of Lake Champlain'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, December 2, 2010.
[Winner of the 2011 New England Emmy Award for Outstanding Environmental Program.][Winner of the 2011 Farm Footage Award of the Vermont International Film Festival.]
:#''Bloom: the Emergence of Ecological Design'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, February 29, 2012.
:#''Bloom: the Agricultural Renaissance'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, February 29, 2012.
[Winner of the 2013 New England Emmy Award for Outstanding Environmental Program.]
:#''Bloom: a New Reverence for Water'', Broadcast Premiere on
Mountain Lake PBS, February 29, 2012.
* Executive Producer, ''Transparent Radiation: Rethinking the Future of Nuclear Power'', Premiere at the Vermont International Film Festival, October 22, 2011.
Selected interviews
*
Could a Carbon Tax Work for Vermont?"
Vermont Public Radio
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, November 3, 2015.
*
Study Finds Mass. Economy Actually Lagging" Boston Globe, February 5, 2015.
*
Vt. Takes Economic Temp with New Thermometer" Associated Press, July 31, 2013.
*
Economic Quality Over Quantity: What's Our GPI?" Northern Public Radio, WNIJ 89.5 FM, January 22, 2013.
*
Measuring Well-Being Instead of Gross State Product: Genuine Progress Indicator Relies on Alternative Economic Measure" ''VT Digger'', November 26, 2012.
*
New Documentary on Lake Champlain Released" WAMC North Country Public Radio, December 15, 2010.
*
Ecological Economists Seek Quality of Life over Quantity" ''Greening of the Great Lakes'', WJR, Michigan State University, October 22, 2010.
*
Disease Origins and Transmission" ''Emerging Science'', Vermont Public Television, February 23, 2010 (first air date).
*
Ecological Economics" ''Emerging Science'', Vermont Public Television, February 9, 2010 (first air date).
*
The Adirondacks: a Model of Conservation?" ''Vermont Edition'', Vermont Public Radio, November 2, 2009.
*
Jon Erickson" ''The Reality Report'', Global Public Media, April 8, 2009.
*
An Ecological Economist takes to the Pitch to Campaign Against HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic" ''Seed Magazine'', July 10, 2006.
References
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1969 births
Living people
Ecological economists
21st-century American economists
University of Vermont faculty