Anthony Fisher is Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has researched, taught, and consulted in the field of environmental and resource economics since 1977. His areas of specialization have included the theory and practice of environmental resource valuation, theory of exhaustible resource extraction and exploration, energy/economy modeling, and the allocation of ground and surface water, especially under drought conditions. His recent research focuses primarily on aspects of the economics of climate change.
Professor Fisher has served on the Board of Directors, as Vice President, and as President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and is a Fellow of the Association. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals in the field and has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and on the National Science Foundation’s panel for the program on global environmental change.
Professor Fisher has published extensively in both general economics journals and in journals specializing in environmental and resource economics. His book, Resource and Environmental Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, has been widely used in graduate courses in the United States and abroad. His article, “Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, co-authored with Kenneth Arrow, received the 1995 award for publication of enduring quality from the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
