Talk: Environmental Politics of a New Century: Understanding Climate Debates

Environmental Politics of a New Century: Understanding Climate Debates

Dr. Dana Fisher (Columbia University)

May 20 @ 5:00-6:15 pm
Buchanan Hall, Room 1910

Free and open to the public

Dr. Fisher is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she is also Director of the Environmental Stewardship Project, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). Dr. Fisher's book, National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime, is one of the best analyses available about how and why climate issues play out so differently in the U.S. than in the rest of the world. Dr. Fisher is also the author of Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America.

For the New York Times article that features her work on Climate Change debates, see http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/11/02/02climatewire-coal-country-poses-the-biggest-obstacle-in-s-79147.html