Christopher Boone Email & Phone Number

Christopher G. Boone is Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Previously, he served as Dean of the School of Sustainability and Founding Dean of the College of Global Futures at ASU. He graduated from Queen’s University with a BA (honours) in Geography and received a master’s and PhD degree in Geography from the University of Toronto, focusing his research on Brazilian urbanization. At McGill University, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of the Environment. His research contributes to scholarship and practice in sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, urban ecology, global environmental change, sustainability careers, and higher education innovation. He served on the scientific steering committee of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Programme (an IHDP and Future Earth project) and as a co-pi and senior scientist for two Long Term Ecological Research programs, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the Central Arizona Phoenix LTER. He is a co-founder and Interim President of the National Sustainability Society, an organization created to develop sustainability as a coherent, transdisciplinary scholarly field, support the growth of sustainability programs in colleges and universities, and convene and connect sustainability researchers, practitioners, employers, and graduates. For the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, he serves on the executive committee. At ASU, he has taught classes on sustainable urbanization, urban and environmental health, principles and methods of sustainability, environmental justice, sustainable design and innovation, designing the future university, professional skills in sustainability, and interdisciplinary methods for socio-ecological research. He has held visiting professor positions in the Department of Biology at Georgetown University and in the Yale School of the Environment.

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