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Certificate of Graduate Study in Ecological Economics – The Science and Management of Sustainability

Date: Courses are offered year-round, in Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters
Location: UVM campus and online

Who Should Attend the Ecological Economics Program?

  • Professionals seeking to understand the interrelationships between ecological and economic systems
  • Graduate students, to earn a Certificate as part of a University of Vermont masters and/or doctoral degree program
  • Leaders seeking to distinguish themselves by enhancing their prior Master's or Doctoral degree
  • MBA or MPA students or professionals seeking to "green" their MBA or MPA

Online Certificate Courses:

This Certificate can be completed all online – other than just one required short-course that brings students together in select communities to complete a community-based project.

For More Information about Certificate Courses Offered Online: Visit http://metacourses.org/ecologicaleconomics/certificate/

What is the Ecological Economics Program?

The field of Ecological Economics was established to fill the growing need to integrate the study and management of “nature’s household” (ecology) and “humankind’s household” (economics). Ecological Economics is the name given to the effort to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to address the interrelationships between ecological and economic systems in a broad and comprehensive way. These relationships are central to most current environmental problems at local, state, regional, and global scales, and to building a sustainable future, but are not well covered by any existing discipline. Ecological economics is not intended to replace either ecology or economics, but to draw on the best of both disciplines without being bound by them in order to create an effective essential synthesis.

The University of Vermont Graduate College offers this Certificate of Graduate Study in Ecological Economics through the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. This flexible, innovative approach to promoting ecological economics and encouraging transdisciplinary interaction and cooperation is an attempt to improve and broaden existing natural and social science programs and build a new synthesis capable of addressing the public policy issues inherent in the achievement of economic development and ecological sustainability.

The objectives of the certificate are to:

  • Provide students with knowledge of ecological economic principles and priorities.
  • Give formal training in interdisciplinary work, in an atmosphere of learning and experimentation.
  • Create new knowledge and solutions through student research.
  • Increase the number of ecological economic literate students in the world.

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This Certificate can be completed all online – other than just one required short-course that brings students together in select communities to complete a community-based project.

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