Spencer Phillips
Assistant Professor of Global Studies
Spencer Phillips is an ecological economist with more than 30 years’ experience focused on the intersection of economic development and environmental stewardship. His passion is for helping people and institutions realize — that is, to understand and to attain — the benefits of environmental improvement. He achieves this through research into the value of ecosystem services, especially as impacted by climate change, land and resource waste management, and efforts to reduce air, water, and solid waste pollution, and by communicating these values to stakeholders and decision makers at all levels of government.