Place of birth: Beverley, East Yorkshire, England

Family: married Lynn Agyeman

Education: BSc, Geography and Botany, University of Durham; PGCE, Geographical Education, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; MA, Conservation Policy, University of Middlesex; PhD, Environmental Education, University of London

Career: Before becoming a tenured academic, Julian Agyeman taught geography in a secondary school in Carlisle, England, and environmental policy at London South Bank University and later, at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. He worked as an environmental education and policy adviser at Notting Dale Urban Studies Centre in London, and in local government in the inner London Boroughs of Lambeth and Islington. He was co-founder in 1988, and Chair until 1994, of the Black Environment Network, the first environmental justice-based organization of its kind in the UK. Between 1992 and 1997 he ran his own consulting firm specializing in communicating environmental and sustainable solutions to local governments, not-for-profit organizations and businesses. In January 1998, he left the UK with his wife Lynn for the USA. They now live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His areas of expertise and current research interests are in three broad areas: the nexus between the concepts of environmental justice and sustainability, the extent, complexity and pervasiveness of ‘rural racism’ in the UK, and the potential role of ‘education for sustainability’ in delivering more just and sustainable futures. He was co-founder in 1996, and is co-editor of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (see url below) and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) in the same year. He is a contributing editor to Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, an associate editor of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture and a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Environmental Education, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, and the Australian Journal of Environmental Education. He is a member of the Global Health Faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Distinguished Scholar at The University of Texas, Austin, Center for Sustainable Development. He is also a member of the National Academies Committee on the Transportation of Radioactive Waste, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Stewardship Council where he is Chairman of the Policy Sub-committee, the Advisory Boards of Creative Community Catalysts, The Center for Whole Communities and The Greater Boston Regional Network of The Environmental Leadership Program.

Honours and awards: Elected to Tufts University Diversity Hall of Fame 2004, Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Graduate Studies Award, Tufts University Graduate Student Council 2005

Publications include: Local Environmental Policies and Strategies (co-editor) 1994, People, Plants and Places 1995, Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (co-editor) 2003, Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice 2005, The New Countryside? Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain (co-editor) 2006, Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (co-editor, forthcoming), Environmental Justice in the Former Soviet Union (in preparation); more than 130 other publications, including book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, published conference presentations, published reports, book reviews, newspaper articles, Op-Eds and articles in professional magazines and journals

Contact details: Address: Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, 97 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA; Tel: +1 617-627-3394; Fax: +1 617-627-3377; Email: julian.agyeman@tufts.edu ; Website: http://www.tufts.edu/~jagyem01/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13549839.asp/ .