Brendan Fisher

Dr. Brendan Fisher is the Director of the Environmental Program, a 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 close to 100 peer-reviewed articles and 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. In 2021-2022 he was a Fulbright Fellow working in Spain on socio-ecological systems in the Spanish Pyrenees. He loves living in Vermont and enjoying the Vermont outdoors with his wife and three children. He is currently working to improve is inability to correctly identify warblers.