Susannah Fisher

 

Post Doctoral Researcher

Susannah joined the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment|, LSE, as a post-doctoral researcher in September 2011. She works in the research stream on adaptation and development.

Background

Susannah has completed a PhD at the geography department at the University of Cambridge on the politics and governance of climate change in India. This research focused on the role of non-state and sub-national actors in emerging forms of climate governance. It offers a theoretical and empirical examination of how such new hybrid arrangements are emerging in the Indian context and examines the role such actors, particularly cities, might play in the multi-level governance of climate change and in instigating local climate action.

Susannah has also worked in a range of organisations, including in the charity sector, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, and a public sector consultancy.

Susannah has an MSc in Environment, Science and Society (Distinction, UCL) and a BA in Human Sciences (First class, Oxford).

Research interests

• The politics of climate change, particularly in South Asia, and the intersections between climate politics and policies and other sectors such as water; this includes how such sectors might adapt to climate change and the barriers they face.
• Urban governance for climate change mitigation and adaptation; how local governments currently understand climate change issues, how scientific information is understood and used at the local level and the interactions of such new agendas with existing urban priorities; the role of other actors, such as the private sector, in urban climate change policies.
• Equity and justice in the climate change debate; this includes the implications of new forms of climate governance on equity, as well as moving beyond the international sphere to consider the equity implications of national and local mitigation and adaptation policies.

Media articles

2012

Climate change and violence: a bleak picture but there’s still room for optimism
|Susannah Fisher, LSE Review of Books, 19 May

Comment: Why climate equity matters in India
|Susannah Fisher, Responding to Climate Change (RTCC), 1 February

2011

India's fight against climate change starts at home|
Susannah Fisher, RTCC (blog), 9 November

Research articles

2012

Fisher, S. January 2012. Policy storylines in the Indian climate change regime: opening new political spaces? Environment and Planning C, v.30, pp.109-127. External link to full article|

Fisher, S. India and climate change: energy, equity and development. Feeling the Heat: the politics of climate policy in rapidly industrialising nations [Ian Bailey and Hugh Compston (eds)]. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. External link to book details|

2011

Fisher, S. December 2011. Knock, knock, knocking on closed doors: exploring the diffuse ideal of the collaborative research relationship. Area, v.43, pp.456-462. External link to full article|