MdM Keynote Speaker Series 2022: "Biodiversity conservation and natural resource economics"

Prof Brendan Fisher, from The University of Vermont (USA), will be giving a presentation on “Biodiversity conservation and natural resource economics”. Our invited speaker will be available for informal meetings with ICTA-UAB researchers afterwards.  

 

Keynote Speaker Series: “Biodiversity conservation and natural resource economics” 
 

Speaker: Brendan Fisher, The Gund Institute for Environment - The University of Vermont (USA) 

Date: Tuesday, 7^th of June 2022  
Time: from 11:30 to 12:30
Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82175233454?pwd=Y2JXU3pYT3JLcUkyS1d2dnFjQXo2QT09  Meeting ID: 821 7523 3454 - Passcode: 629315 

 

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY and RESEARCH INTERESTS 

Dr. Brendan Fisher is Professor at the University of Vermont - where he teaches courses on sustainability science, behavioral economics, environmental/ecological economics and ecosystem management. His field research has been undertaken in Borneo, Cambodia, Colombia, Mozambique, and Tanzania. He was a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow working on relationships between the ecological conditions of coastal regions, gender inequality and childhood health. In 2021-2022, he will be visiting Spain as Fullbright Fellow, working on changing socio-ecological conditions and ecosystem services in the Spanish Pyrenees.
 

TOPIC of the KEYNOTE 

His research and fieldwork lie at the nexus of conservation, development, natural resource economics and human behavior.