Current Post: Senior Research Associate
Room Number: 1.15
Telephone: 01603 593116 (+44 1603 593116)
Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)
Email: brendan.fisher@uea.ac.uk
Research Interests
Eological economics; ecosystem service governance, valuation and distributional considerations; global income inequity and development
Biography
My main research interests are in regards to ecosystem services. Governance, valuation and distributional concerns are focal points of this research since the costs and benefits of ecosystem conservation (for the production of services) are heterogeneous across time and space. I am also interested in the current global economic growth paradigm and its consequences for sustainability and equity. In the spring of 2006, I received my PhD from the University of Vermont under the supervision of Dr. Robert Costanza. The title of my dissertation was "Distribution and Development: analyses of global poverty, policy and sustainability." I received my MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute in 2001.
Significant Publications
Fisher, B. and R. Costanza (2005). Regional commitments to reducing emissions. Nature 438 (7066): 301-302, doi:10.1038/438301a.
Fisher, B. and J. Erickson (in press). Growth and Equity: dismantling the Kaldor-Kuznets-Solow consensus. In Frontiers in Ecological Economics. J. Erickson and J. Gowdy. (eds) Northhampton MA, Edward Elgar.
Fisher, B. and T. Christopher (2006). Poverty and Biodiversity: measuring the overlap between human poverty and the biodiversity hotspots. (in press at Ecological Economics), doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.05.020
Costanza, R., B. Fisher, et al. (2006). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A multi-scale empirical study of the relationship between species richness and net primary production. Ecological Economics. (in press)
Costanza, R., B. Fisher, et al. (2006). “Quality of Life: An approach integrating opportunities, human needs, and subjective well-being. Ecological Economics. (in press)
Costanza, R., D. Stern, B. Fisher, et al. (2004). Influential publications in ecological economics: a citation analysis. Ecological Economics 50(3-4): 261-292, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.06.001.
