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Biodiversity Conservation and Human Welfare: Making Ends Meet
Dr. Brendan Fisher
University of Vermont
Dr. Brendan Fisher is the Director of the Environmental Program, Associate Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. His research and fieldwork lie at the nexus of conservation, development, natural resource economics and human behavior. He is the author of over 85 peer-reviewed articles on topics such as poverty, health, ecosystem services and biological conservation. He is the author of two books, Valuing Ecosystem Services (Earthscan, London, 2008) and A Field Guide to Economics for Conservationists (Roberts and Company, 2015). In 2013 he was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. When he’s not working he spends most of his time enjoying the Vermont outdoors with his wife and three children. He is an expert at mis-identifying warblers.
