Brendan Fisher

Biographic Data

ID3704769
NAMEBrendan Fisher
GIVEN NAMESBrendan
FAMILY NAMEFisher
SIGNATUREFISHER B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Vermont
ORCID0000-0001-6560-9093
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS281
AUTHOR COUNT30
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Cost- and biodiversity- “friendly” management

    Open AccessDaniel F Pratson, R K Gould et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2026

    Privately owned forests comprise around 60% of the total forest cover across the contiguous United States and are managed for a range of economic outputs. Such private working forests contribute to large-scale conservation outcomes across the US and the globe. Voluntary conservation programs aim to motivate private forest owners to adopt biodiversity-focused management actions. However, it is often assumed that such management, and by extension, …

  • Survey‐based study of public perceptions and preferences for mitigating flood risk via nature‐based solutions in the United States

    Open AccessJessica A Balerna, Brendan Fisher et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2026

    Nature‐based solutions (NbS), such as reconnecting floodplains and restoring riparian wetlands, can reduce flood risk as well as provide benefits like carbon storage, habitat support, and recreation. However, wetlands and floodplains are increasingly replaced with urban development and flooding is primarily addressed with grey infrastructure solutions like dams and levees. We hypothesize that one barrier to implementation of NbS is the perception…

  • Catalyzing community-led conservation governance through integrated conservation and development in coastal Mozambique

    Open AccessRafaella Lobo, Althea Skinner et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2026

    Between 2008 and 2018, the CARE-World Wildlife Fund Alliance implemented an integrated conservation and development project in the Primeiras e Segundas region of Mozambique to address intersecting challenges of poverty, food insecurity and biodiversity loss. The project aimed to catalyze the development of robust community-led governance of coastal resources and generate insights concerning the interplay between conservation and development inter…

  • Framing ecosystem services to change behavior

    Open AccessDiana Hackenburg, Brendan Fisher et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2025

    Ecosystem services may serve as a powerful communications concept in that they frame environmental issues through their effects on human well-being. However, a debate has arisen about whether it is more effective in changing people’s behaviors to frame services as providing material, monetary benefits, or to focus on the nonmaterial, cultural benefits associated with human-nature relationships. Using an online survey (N = 292), we examined the ef…

  • Deforestation changes the effectiveness of bed nets for malaria control

    Open AccessTafesse Kefyalew Estifanos, Brendan Fisher et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Land use changes such as deforestation and the degradation of tropical forests can be key drivers of infectious disease, including malaria. However, programmes that evaluate the effectiveness of malaria‐control strategies such as bed nets rarely account for the impacts of surrounding land use change. This study investigates how the cumulative deforestation rate for nearly 20 years moderates the effectiveness of bed nets on malaria positivity in c…

  • The impact of air pollution on behavior changes and outdoor recreation in Chinese cities

    Open AccessGanlin Huang, Yaqiong Jiang et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

  • Forests moderate the effectiveness of water treatment at reducing childhood diarrhea

    Open AccessRanaivo Rasolofoson, Taylor H Ricketts et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Environmental degradation has been associated with increased burden of diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, and malnutrition. As a result, some have argued that continuing ecosystem change could undermine successes in global health investments. Here we conduct an empirical study to investigate this concern. Child deaths due to diarrhea have more than halved since the year 2000, partly due to increased access to improved water, sanitation and hygie…

  • The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature

    Open AccessRichard B Bradbury, Stuart H M Butchart et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Cited by: 3References: 7

  • Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science

    Open AccessKristian Steensen Nielsen, Theresa M Marteau et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Cited by: 6References: 92

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

    Open AccessNelson Grima, 滋生 林 et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2020

    Urban, peri-urban forests and other natural areas provide a wide range of material and non-material benefits to people known as ecosystem services. Access to these areas has been linked to benefits for physical and mental health of local populations. In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 global pandemic forced many governments to impose a set of restrictions including the closure of businesses, cancelation of public events and schooling, social dis…

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • Climate impacts associated with reduced diet diversity in children across nineteen countries

    Open AccessMeredith T Niles, Benjamin Freixas Emery et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    It is widely anticipated that climate change will negatively affect both food security and diet diversity. Diet diversity is especially critical for children as it correlates with macro and micronutrient intake important for child development. Despite these anticipated links, little empirical evidence has demonstrated a relationship between diet diversity and climate change, especially across large datasets spanning multiple global regions and wi…

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

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, D Gerkey et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2019

    Protected areas positively affect several aspects of human well-being across the developing world.

  • Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment

    Open AccessHeather Tallis, Katharine Kreis et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2019References: 6

    Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas. The Bridge Collaborative, an emergent research-practice collaboration, presents principles and recommendations that help harmonize methods for evidence generat…

  • Nudging pro‐environmental behavior

    Open AccessHilary Byerly, Andrew Balmford et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and the…2018

    Human behavior is responsible for many of our greatest environmental challenges. The accumulated effects of many individual and household decisions have major negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem health. Human behavioral science blends psychology and economics to understand how people respond to the context in which they make decisions (eg who presents the information and how it is framed). Behavioral insights have informed new strategi…

  • Logging and conservation

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, David P Edwards et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2013Cited by: 1References: 2

  • The importance of local forest benefits

    Open AccessMarije Schaafsma, Sian Morse‐Jones et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 9References: 15

  • Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products

    Open AccessMarije Schaafsma, Sian Morse‐Jones et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2012

  • Common pool resource management and PES

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, Kassim Kulindwa et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2010

  • Burning Water

    Open AccessKenneth Mulder, Nathan Hagens et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2010Cited by: 2References: 30

  • Reducing emissions from deforestation—The “combined incentives” mechanism and empirical simulations

    Open AccessBernardo B N Strassburg, Bernardo Strassburg et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2009Cited by: 29References: 3

  • Ecosystem services

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, R Kerry TurnerARTICLEBiological Conservation2008

  • Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, Kerry Turner et al.ARTICLEEcological Applications2008

    It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic benefits (in addition to moral and scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services has been developed to address this link between ecosystems and human welfare. Since policy decisions are often evaluated through cost–benefit assessments, an economic analysis can help make ecosystem service research op…

  • Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Andrew Balmford et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2008

    Global efforts to conserve biodiversity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., “ecosystem services”). However, regions for which conservation benefits both biodiversity and ecosystem services cannot be identified unless ecosystem services can be quantified and valued and their areas of production mapped. Here we review the theory, data, and analyses needed to produce such maps and find that data availability allows us to…

  • Defining and classifying ecosystem services for decision making

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, R Kerry Turner et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2008Cited by: 231References: 5