Food Equity Speaker Series

Professor Julian Agyeman, Tufts University

Friday, November 2nd 2018

3:00pm-5:00pm

40 Wilcocks Street, Wilson Lounge, New College

Just Sustainabilities in Policy, Planning and Practice

Professor Julian Agyeman will first outline his concept of "just sustainabilities" - the full integration of social justice and sustainability, defined as "the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems." He will then give practical examples in terms of his recent research into urban planning and design, food justice, sharing cities, and planning for intercultural cities. For more about his work visit http://julianagyeman.com

Biography:

Worldwide, Dr. Agyeman is recognized as an expert, innovator and thought leader. He is one of the top 15 most highly cited North American urban planning academics. Among his wide-ranging and influential publications is Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? (2002). It is the most highly cited journal article by a North American urban planning academic. In addition to its theoretical contributions, Mind the Gap continues to have practical impact around the world, influencing government policy in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, Ireland, as well as within the European Commission and the United Nations (UNEP and FAO).

He is the author or editor of 11 books, including Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press 2003), Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice (NYU Press 2005), Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (MIT Press 2011), Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and Practice (Zed Books 2013), Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices, and Possibilities (Routledge 2014) and Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (MIT Press 2015), one of Nature"s Top 20 Books of 2015. His latest book is Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice: From Loncheras to Lobsta Love (MIT Press 2017). His next book, Immigration, Immigrants, Agriculture and Food in North America, is under contract with MIT Press.

He was co-founder in 1996, and is now Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. He is Series Editor of Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and Practice published by Zed Books and Co-Editor of the Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City Series. He is also Contributing Editor to Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development and a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education.

Julian sits on the Academic Board of The Future of Places (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden), the Board of Directors of EcoDistricts (Portland, OR, USA) and on the Advisory Boards of Shareable (San Francisco, USA), Participatory City (London, UK), Urban Sharing (Lund, Sweden), Sharecity (Dublin, Ireland), and the McConnell Foundation"s Cities for People and Future Cities programs (Montral, Canada).

Sponsored by: New College Initiative Fund, Toronto Food Policy Council, Department of Geography and Planning