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Sustainability Arrives in Academia

Posted by: Tim Halbur

3 January 2010 - 9:00am

A growing number of universities are offering programs in urban sustainability studies, including Tufts, New York City College and the University of Colorado.

Henry Fountain writes, "'Too much of environmental planning and policy focuses on wilderness and rural areas,' says Julian Agyeman, professor and chairman of the department of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. "Yet most students' lives are lived in the urban environment.”

Mr. Agyeman's department is one of the pioneers of urban environmental studies — it was founded in 1973 by Herman Field, who had been planning director for the university’s school of medicine from 1961 to 1972."

Full Story: Sustainability Comes of Age
Source: The New York Times, December 31, 2009
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Schools Offering Sustainability Degree Programs

Submitted by rayquay on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 12:41.

Interesting that in this and thier August article they did not mention Arizona State University which has one of the largest and oldest programs which includes the Global Institute of Sustainability created in 2004, the school of sustainability http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/ created in 2007 and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment http://engineering.asu.edu/sebe ceated in 2009.

Ray Quay

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