The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics (GIEE) is an environmental institute housed at The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...

. Its primary mission is the study of the relationships between ecological and economic systems through the collaborative work of experts, educators, students, and others from around the world and across a wide variety of academic and environmental disciplines related to ecological economics

Ecological economics

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The Gund Institute offers graduate-level training in the form of two Certificate Programs: Certificate of Graduate Study in Ecological Economics and Certificate of Graduate Study in Ecological Design. Some of the courses required for the Ecological Economics Certificate are currently completely online with all the content available freely.

External links

• Gund Institute for Ecological Economics Homepage
• MetaCourses -- online courses