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 worked as an environmental policy adviser, first at Notting Dale Urban Studies Centre in London, then in local government in the inner London Boroughs of Lambeth and Islington. He then consulted and taught environmental policy at London South Bank University. He was co-founder in 1988, and chair until 1994, of the Black Environmental Network (BEN), the first environmental justice-based organization of its kind in Britain. He was co-founder in 1996, is currently 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. Between 1992 and 1998, Julian ran a consulting firm in London which specialized in communicating environmental and sustainable solutions to local governments, not-for-profit organizations and businesses. He is an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Justice and Sustainability at the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies (HRISS) at the University of South Australia, Adelaide and Contributing Editor to Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, an Associate Editor of Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture and is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Environmental Education, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy and the Australian Journal of Environmental Education.

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 (2009), Environmental Justice in the Former Soviet Union (2009), Environmental Injustice Across Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Inequities (forthcoming 2010), The Food Justice Reader: Cultivating a Just Sustainability (forthcoming 2010); 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/ .