Dr. Lisa Allyn Dale
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Pronouns: She / her
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Director, M.A. in Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School
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Lecturer in Climate,
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Affiliated with: Undergraduate Special Concentration and Major in Sustainable Development
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New York, NY 10025
BIOGRAPHY:
Lisa Dale is the Director of the MA in Climate and Society program at the Columbia Climate School, where her courses include: Sustainable Development in Rwanda; Challenges of Sustainable Development; Climate Change Adaptation; and Qualitative Research Methods. Trained as a political scientist, her research on environmental policy focuses on climate change adaptation in two distinct settings: rural agricultural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and wildfire risk zones across the American West. Having attended and presented at several UNFCCC climate conferences (COPs), Dr. Dale focuses on the global institutional framework for climate change in her teaching. She has a background in both academia and politics, including five years as a policy advisor with the Department of Natural Resources for the State of Colorado. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy from Colorado State University in 2003. A Fulbright Specialist in Sustainable Development in Rwanda (2019-2020), Dr. Dale has maintained her affiliation with the University of Rwanda (UR) as a Senior Research Fellow at UR’s Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management.
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8 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS
Only select publications listed belowPUBLICATIONS
Lisa Dale & Idowu Ajibade. 2024. Climate resettlement and livelihood transformation in Rwanda: the case of Rweru Model Green Village, Climate and Development. DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2024.2314691
Dale, Lisa and Kimiko Barrett. Missing the Mark: Effectiveness and Funding in Community Wildfire Risk Reduction. 2023. Headwaters Economics: Bozeman, MT.
Dale, Lisa. Resettlement and Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda: The Case of Rweru Model Green Village. 2023. Researching Internal Displacement Working Paper #35.
Dale, Lisa. 2022. Climate Change Adaptation. Earth Institute Primer Series, Columbia University Press: New York, NY.
Agricultural Insurance and Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda: Evidence from the Eastern Province. 2021. Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda.
Cheng, Antony C. and Lisa Dale. 2020. Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights from the Colorado Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program. Review of Policy Research. DOI 10.1111/ropr.12379
Dale, Lisa. 2019. Foiling the Resource Curse in Mozambique. Centerpiece article, Environmental Forum: Environmental Law Institute, May / June 2019: 34-39.
Dale, Lisa. 2015. Introduction to Environmental Policy, 2nd Edition. Bridgepoint Education, Inc: San Jose, CA.
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NETWORK AFFILIATION(S)
Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities Network Adapting the Existing Built Environment NetworkEXPERTISE
environmental policy climate change adaptation wildfire policy sustainable developmentEDUCATION
BA, Cornell University (1991)
MA, Education, Regis University (1997)
PhD, Environmental Policy, Colorado State University (2003)