Christopher
G.
Boone
Associate Professor,
School of Human Evolution &
Social Change,
School of Sustainability |
Christopher
G.
Boone
Associate Professor,
School of Human Evolution &
Social Change,
School of Sustainability |
Ph.D.,
University of Toronto, 1994
M.A.,
University of Toronto, 1989
B.A,
Queen's University (Canada), 1987
Post-Doctoral Fellow, McGill University, 1993-95
Contact information:
cgboone@asu.edu
(480) 727-6017
Office:
SHESC 166
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
PO Box 872402, Tempe, AZ
85287-2402
Research
expertise: environmental justice and vulnerability, urban
socio-ecological systems, GIS, public health, urban sustainability. For a complete c.v., click here.
I
hold a joint appointment with the School of Human Evolution &
Social Change (SHESC)
and the School of Sustainability (SOS).
My current teaching responsibilities are in SHESC, and I am the
Graduate Director for SOS. I came to ASU in January 2006 after spending
6 years as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of
Geography at Ohio University. Prior to that appointment, I held a
tenure-track post in the Department of Geography & Urban
Analysis
at California State University, Los Angeles. I have a B.A. in Geography
from Queen's University (Canada). My Ph.D. (1994) is from the
University of Toronto and I held a post-doctoral fellowship at McGill
University from 1993 to 1995.
Over the past 8 years I have devoted a considerable amount of my time on research with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (http://beslter.org), an Urban Long Term Ecological Research site. Phoenix is the only other urban LTER site in the country (http://caplter.asu.edu/). Working at ASU offers an opportunity to participate in cross-site comparative work between these two LTER organizations. Bob Bolin (SHESC) and I are working on a comparative study of environmental equity patterns in Phoenix and Baltimore, which we and others plan to expand to a wider geographic scope. In 2006, I was awarded a NSF Human and Social Dynamics grant to investigate the longitudinal dynamics of environmental equity patterns and processes in Baltimore through a long term analysis (1880-2000) of population characteristics in relation to environmental amenities and disamenities (see abstract). I am on a team of ASU investigators that was recently awarded a NSF-HSD grant to assess the impact of immigration reform on the health and economic well-being of Latino communities in Phoenix. I am also an investigator with Alex Brewis, professor of medical anthropology, on a number of proposals to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the USDA that address environmental and cultural determinants of health, especially obesity. With Jay Golden, assistant professor in the School of Sustainability, and others, I have submitted grant proposals to NASA, EPA, Science Foundation of Arizona, and NSF to examine, among other issues, heat vulnerability in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
In the last three years, I have been involved with a number of proposals that address environmental justice, vulnerability, and public health concerns in Phoenix and Baltimore. In December 2006, I participated in the first Chinese Academy of Sciences and ASU workshop on urban sustainability in Beijing, China. In July 2008, I returned to China for a meeting at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on long-term ecological research. Next spring I will be participating in the IHDP (http://www.ihdp.org/) Open Meeting in Bonn, Germany.