Christopher Boone, Ph.D., is the dean of the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. His research contributes to ongoing debates in sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, vulnerability, and global environmental change. He is a co-PI for the urban Long Term Ecological Research projects based in Baltimore, Maryland and Phoenix, Arizona, both supported by the National Science Foundation. At ASU, he has taught classes on sustainable urbanization, urban and environmental health, principles and methods of sustainability, environmental justice, sustainable design and innovation, and interdisciplinary methods for socio-ecological research. Boone serves on the Board of Directors for the Global Council on Science and the Environment (GCSE) and the executive committee of the GCSE Leaders' Alliance. He has a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University.