Spencer Phillips
expatriated ecological economist
- Role
- Founder at Key-Log Economics
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Spencer Phillips
I am an ecological economist* working to help communities, people and organizations better understand, articulate and act on solid information about the relationships between the economy and the environment. With 30+ years of experience in policy-oriented research and non-profit leadership, I offer analytical, strategic, and organizational development services.* Ecological Economics: Economics as if people AND the laws of thermodynamics matter.Recent research focus: ecosystem service valuation, quantifying conservation-economy relationships, and documenting the economic effects of climate change, hard-rock mining, and energy extraction on and around public lands.I am interested in learning from others\' research in these areas, developing partnerships for further research, and informing the dialogue around environmental policy.
Experience
Founder
Sep 2013 — Present
Deliver rigorous applied research in natural resource / ecological economics to NGO and other clients seeking, as Aldo Leopold wrote, to move the “key-log…to release the evolutional process for [a land] ethic.” Key-Log Economics provides information, analysis and strategy to place economic considerations in the right context within larger ecological-economic systems, and to bring those considerations to bear on land use, ecosystem management and community development processes, policies, decisions and actions.
Education
Virginia Tech
M.S. & Ph.D., Agricultural & Applied Economics
1988 — 1992
University of Virginia
B.A., Economics
1981 — 1985
Skills
- Public Policy
- Proposal Writing
- Environmental Economics
- Community Outreach
- Community Development
- Public Speaking
- Sustainability
- Ecology
- Policy Analysis
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Strategic Planning
- Analysis
- Gis
- Environmental Awareness
- Environmental Policy
- Program Management
- Data Analysis
- Teaching
- Organizational Development
- Government
- Nonprofits
- Leadership
- Fundraising
- Strategy
- Economic Development
- Policy
- Economics
- Research
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