Lisa Allyn Dale

Senior Lecturer in Climate,
Director, M.A. in Climate and Society Columbia Climate School
Affiliated with: Undergraduate Special Concentration and Major in Sustainable Development
Chair, Committee on Instruction (COI)
Hogan Hall 2910 Broadway B-104 New York, NY 10025

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor Lisa Dale is a Senior Lecturer in Climate and the Director of the MA in Climate and Society program at Columbia University’s Climate School. Trained as a political scientist, she studies how environmental policy can foster or hinder effective climate change adaptation at all scales. Research areas include wildfire in the American West and resettlement policies in Rwanda. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses at the Columbia Climate School and is a Research Fellow at the University of Rwanda.

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Name	Published Date
Missing the Mark: Effectiveness and Funding in Community Wildfire Risk Reduction	2023
Agricultural Insurance and Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda: Evidence from the Eastern Province	2021
Resettlement and Climate Change Adaptation in Rwanda: The Case of Rweru Model Green Village	2021
Achieving Adaptive Governance of Forest Wildfire Risk Using Competitive Grants: Insights from the Colorado Risk Reduction Grant Program	2020
Foiling the Resource Curse	2019
Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R): A Baseline Study of Climate Resilience in Developing Countries	2018
The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.	2010
Wildland Fire Use and Cost Containment: A Colorado Case Study	2005

PUBLICATIONS

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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Lisa Allyn Dale

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