Julian Agyeman, associate professor and chair of urban and environmental policy and planning, holds a a Ph.D in Environmental Education from the University of London , an M.A. in Conservation Policy from Middlesex University, UK and a B.Sc (joint honours) in Geography and Botany from Durham University, UK.

As an ecologist/biogeographer turned environmental social scientist, he has both a science and social science background which helps frame his perspectives, research and scholarship. His publications, which number over 130, include books, peer reviewed articles, book chapters, published conference presentations, reports, book reviews, newspaper articles and Op-Eds and articles in professional magazines and journals.

His focal research interests are in the nexus between environmental justice and sustainability. His books include Local Environmental Policies and Strategies (Longman 1994); People, Plants and Places (Southgate Publishers/Learning through Landscapes 1995); Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press 2003), which he co-edited with Robert D Bullard and Bob Evans and Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice (NYU Press 2005). His latest book, co-edited with Sarah Neal of Britain's Open University is The New Countryside? Ethnicity, Nation and Exclusion in Contemporary Rural Britain (The Policy Press 2006).