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2234
National Ranking
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Overview

Brendan Fisher is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science with a notable emphasis on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Urban Green Space and Health, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Brendan Fisher has authored multiple research papers, with recent publications including:

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world (2020, Nature)
  • The importance of urban natural areas and urban ecosystem services during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Landslides in the Andes: Forests can provide cost-effective landslide regulation services (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Taylor H. Ricketts, Andrew Balmford, Rachelle K. Gould, Richard B. Bradbury, and Hilary Byerly. This indicates active collaborations within their research network.

The scientist has published multiple papers in recurring venues such as PLoS ONE, Environmental Research Letters, Conservation Science and Practice, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, and Landscape Ecology, reflecting a consistent contribution to these journals.

Best Publications

  • Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making

    Brendan Fisher;R. Kerry Turner;Paul Morling

  • Quality of life: an approach integrating opportunities, human needs, and subjective well-being

    Robert Costanza;Brendan Fisher;Saleem Ali;Caroline Beer

  • Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

    R. Naidoo;A. Balmford;Robert Costanza;B. Fisher

  • Ecosystem services: Classification for valuation

    Brendan Fisher;R. Kerry Turner

  • Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research.

    Brendan Fisher;Kerry Turner;Matthew Zylstra;Roy Brouwer

  • Integrating the ecological and economic dimensions in biodiversity and ecosystem service valuation

    R.S. de Groot;B. Fisher;M. Christie;J. Aronson

  • Navjot's nightmare revisited: logging, agriculture, and biodiversity in Southeast Asia

    David S. Wilcove;Xingli Giam;Xingli Giam;David P. Edwards;Brendan Fisher

  • Poverty and biodiversity: Measuring the overlap of human poverty and the biodiversity hotspots

    Brendan Fisher;Treg Christopher

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services: A multi-scale empirical study of the relationship between species richness and net primary production

    Robert Costanza;Brendan Fisher;Kenneth Mulder;Shuang Liu

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world.

    Robin Naidoo;Brendan Fisher

  • Nudging pro-environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

    Hilary Byerly;Andrew Balmford;Paul J Ferraro;Courtney Hammond Wagner

  • Predictable waves of sequential forest degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city

    Antje Ahrends;Neil D. Burgess;Simon A. H. Milledge;Mark T. Bulling

  • Mapping socio-economic scenarios of land cover change: a GIS method to enable ecosystem service modelling.

    R D Swetnam;B Fisher;B Fisher;B P Mbilinyi;P K T Munishi

  • Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world/'s largest reforestation programme

    Fangyuan Hua;Xiaoyang Wang;Xinlei Zheng;Brendan Fisher

  • Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

    R. Naidoo;D. Gerkey;D. Hole;A. Pfaff

  • An Integrative Approach to Quality of Life Measurement, Research, and Policy

    Robert Costanza;Brendan Fisher;Saleem H. Ali;Caroline C. Beer

  • Ecosystem valuation: a sequential decision support system and quality assessment issues.

    RK Turner;S Morse-Jones;B Fisher

  • The importance of urban natural areas and urban ecosystem services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Nelson Grima;Will Corcoran;Corinne Hill-James;Benjamin Langton

  • Reducing emissions from deforestation - the "combined incentives" mechanism and empirical simulations.

    Bernardo Strassburg;R. Kerry Turner;Brendan Fisher;Roberto Schaeffer

  • Bringing Ecosystem Services into the Real World: An Operational Framework for Assessing the Economic Consequences of Losing Wild Nature

    Andrew Balmford;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher;Rhys E. Green;Rhys E. Green;Robin Naidoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
Taylor H. Ricketts
Taylor H. Ricketts University of Vermont
Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
R. Kerry Turner
R. Kerry Turner University of East Anglia
Robin Naidoo
Robin Naidoo University of British Columbia
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Douglas W. Yu
Douglas W. Yu University of East Anglia
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester

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