Christopher G. Boone


Christopher G. Boone is the Dean of the ASU School of Sustainability. President Michael M. Crow appointed him as dean in 2013. Previously he served as Associate Dean and was the Graduate Director when the school was established in 2006. He sits on a two-member directorate for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, which leads and supports sustainability research, education, and outreach efforts across all 17 colleges at Arizona State University. For the recently established ASU Global Futures Laboratory, he serves on the executive committee.
Dr. Boone holds affiliate appointments in the , , , and at Arizona State University. He is a Permanent Visiting Scholar at of Lüneburg, Germany and a Founding Board Member, in Lüneburg, Germany. He serves on the Technical Commission of the US-Mexico Bi-National Laboratory on Climate Change, Adaptation, and Sustainability. For the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, he serves on a committee to formulate recommendations on sustainability education and curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 2012-13, he held a Visiting Professor appointment in the Department of Biology at and served on its .

Education

Boone received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1994 and holds a master degree from the same institution. In 1987, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. From 1993-1995, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Environment at McGill University funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Research

His research expertise focuses on urbanization, sustainability, and environmental justice. He is an investigator for two Long Term Ecological Research Network projects based in and and funded by the US National Science Foundation. Both projects examine the structure and function of urban ecosystems and how to use that understanding to support sustainability initiatives in cities. He served on the scientific steering committee of the , a Future Earth project. He serves on the Board of Directors and the executive committee of the Academic Sustainability and Environmental Leaders Council for the . For the UCLA Sustainable Los Angeles Grand Challenge, he is a member of the .
He has published in a broad range of journals and has authored two books: