A Campus-Community Urban Sustainability Program

FAIN: AK-255419-17

Long Island University (Greenvale, NY 11548-1300)
Deborah Mutnick (Project Director: October 2016 to October 2022)
Margaret Cuonzo (Co Project Director: April 2018 to October 2022)
Jay Shuttleworth (Co Project Director: April 2018 to October 2022)

The development of an urban sustainability program comprising four new courses, a first-year learning community, community-based learning activities, and a speaker series at the university’s Brooklyn campus.

LIU Brooklyn proposes to develop a Campus-Community Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) that will provide opportunities for campus members, especially undergraduates, to investigate and address urban sustainability issues from an interdisciplinary perspective richly informed by the humanities. To engage students in sustainability studies, CUSP will create: (1) an integrated set of courses in four disciplines (biology, English, philosophy, and adolescent education); (2) experiential learning opportunities for students through internships, service learning, and research with community collaborators; and (3) spaces and opportunities for dialogue with the campus and community.

Associated Products

The City Is An Ecosystem: Sustainable Education, Policy, and Practice (Book)
Title: The City Is An Ecosystem: Sustainable Education, Policy, and Practice
Editor: Deborah Mutnick
Editor: Margaret Cuonzo
Editor: Timothy Leslie
Editor: Carole Griffiths
Editor: Jay M. Shuttleworth
Abstract: The City Is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time--climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality--which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live. Across more than twenty chapters, the three parts of the book cover historical and scientific perspectives on the city as an ecosystem; human rights to the city in relation to urban sustainability; and the city as a sustainability classroom at all educational levels inside and outside formal classroom spaces. It argues that such efforts must be interdisciplinary and widespread to ensure an informed public and educated new generation are equipped to face an uncertain future, particularly relevant in the post-COVID-19 world.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1322836508
Primary URL Description: WorldCat.org
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Edited Volume
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9781032108650
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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