Principals of Ecological Economics January 23, 2008

The Institute for Children's Environmental Health presents their annual lecture series examining the relationship between the natural world, human society and the economic system. The series focuses on ecological economics, a growing transdisciplinary field that aims to improve and expand economic theory to integrate the earth's natural systems, human values and health. The series begins with a lecture on the principles of ecological economics by Robert Constanza, an internationally renowned ecological economist at the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont. Reception following.