The Limits of Civil Society's Participation and Influence at COP-15: A Comment on “Disenfranchisement of Countries and Civil Society at COP-15 in Copenhagen” by Ian McGregor

Dana R. Fisher is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on environmental policy, civic participation and activism more broadly. She has written extensively on climate politics in the US and comparatively across nations, including in her first book: National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime (2004). Fisher is currently researching the climate policy network in the United States as part of the US National Science Foundation-funded Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) project. She is also the Lead Investigator of the “Understanding the Dynamic Connections Among Stewardship, Land Cover, and Ecosystem Services in New York City's Urban Forest,” which is funded by the US National Science Foundation. This project aims to understand the relationship between urban civic stewardship and re-greening efforts in New York City. Fisher directs the Environmental Stewardship Project at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.