Christopher G. Boone

Christopher G. Boone
Alma mater	Queen's University University of Toronto
Predecessor	Sander van der Leeuw
Successor	Incumbent

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 (2010-2013) and was the Graduate Director when the school was established in 2006. He also serves on a three-member directorate for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, which leads and supports sustainability research, education, and outreach efforts across all colleges at Arizona State University.

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.

His research expertise focuses on urbanization, sustainability, and environmental justice. He is an investigator for two Long Term Ecological Research Network projects based in Baltimore and Phoenix 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 serves on the scientific steering committee of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Programme, a Future Earth project. For the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, part of the National Council on Science and the Environment based in Washington. D.C., he serves on the executive committee.

He has published in a broad range of journals and has authored two books:

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