NSS Sustainability Journey: Julian Agyeman

Transcript of NSS Sustainability Journey, August 2025

Background

Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS is a Professor in the Department Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, a Secondary Professor at The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and is Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, an endowed professorship at Tufts University. In the early 2000s, with colleagues, he developed the increasingly influential concept of just sustainabilities, which explores the intersecting goals of social justice, equity and environmental sustainability, defined as:

the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now, and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems.

Born and trained in the UK, he holds a B.Sc. in Geography and Botany, with a minor in Anthropology (University of Durham, 1980), a Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Geography and Environmental Studies (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982), an MA in Conservation Policy (Middlesex University, 1987) and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies (University of London, 1996). His combined science and social science background, together with extensive experience in local government, consulting, working for, and board-level advising of NGOs and community-based organizations in the UK and US, helps frame his perspectives, research and writing. This enables him to thrive at the borders and intersections of a wide range of disciplines, knowledges and methodologies which he uses in creative and original ways.

Learn more here. 

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Sustainability, urban environment, environmental justice, social equity, urban studies, policy making, environmental sustainability, rural racism, Black Environment Network, pro-environmental behavior, just sustainabilities, food justice

Hello and welcome to Sustainability Journeys. This podcast is brought to you by the National Sustainability Society Programming committee. We’re Emma Bowick, Laura Zanotti, and Caitlyn Finnegan, and we’re so glad you’re here.

This series is all about exploring the stories behind sustainability leaders. We’ll be sitting down with researchers, educators, and practitioners working in sustainability to learn more about the paths they’ve taken—the questions that drive them, the challenges they've faced, and the experiences that have shaped their work.

Sustainability isn’t just a field—it’s a journey. Whether someone came to it through climate justice, environmental science, Indigenous governance, urban planning, or another route entirely, each story offers a unique lens on what it means to work toward a more just and sustainable future.

Our goal is to foster conversation, connection, and maybe even a bit of inspiration for those navigating their own paths in sustainability.

So, whether you're walking to class, washing the dishes, or pulling up another dataset—tune in, and journey with us.

Emma  

Julian, can you start by introducing yourself, and can you tell us a little bit about how you became a sustainability scholar?

Julian  

My name is Julian Agyeman. I’m Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, and I also hold a secondary professorship in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts.

So it’s interesting: 45 years ago, I graduated from Durham University in the UK in geography and botany. So I started out as a biogeographer, as an ecologist, really. And I always say this because,I want people to understand thatI have great sympathies with environmental sustainability. But, my passion is just sustainabilities, and I’ll explain through this interview why that’s so.

So, yeah, I started out really being fascinated with nature. As a kid, I was a birdwatcher. I used to go on hikes. I grew up in an area of Yorkshire called the Yorkshire Wolds, which is a sort of undulating landscape, chalk landscape, beautiful for botanizing and birdwatching. And I used to go to Spurn Point, in the estuary of the River Humber, you know. And so nature fascinated me.

I went on to become a high school geography teacher, and again, I was interested mainly in the environment. And it wasn’t really until I went to London in the mid-1980s and I started working at an urban study center, which is like the urban equivalent of a field center, and all of a sudden I realized that the environment is not just about nature.

For 80% of, certainly, the UK population, probably similar in the US, the environment is an urban environment. And when you start to think about the urban environment, you start to think about more political questions. Because you can stand and look at a chalk landscape and not think about the politics of that landscape. But if you’re looking at, and doing, urban studies with young people, they’re asking questions like: Why is the bus service different in this neighborhood to that neighborhood? Or, you know, why does the housing look different? Or why are there more trees in this neighborhood? And I suddenly started realizing that there was a   social science of the environment.

At the time, I had applied to do a master’s degree in conservation policy. Now, in the ’80s, there were two master’s degrees in conservation in the UK. One was the science of conservation, and that was at University College London, and I’d done geography and botany, so I felt that I had the science of conservation. But this whole area of policy, who knows what policy is when you’re 22, 23, 24 years old? And so it really got me fascinated.

When I finished that degree, I started work in two local governments, actually, in London in the late ’80s and early ’90s. And I was doing sort of environmental work with inner London communities. And again, I started to understand some of the pressures on the environment and pressures on people living in environments that were not optimal for them.

I did my PhD in urban studies, and really that was a sort of big change in me, from environmental sustainability, to looking at issues of equity and social justice in the context of the environment. And my awareness of sustainability coincided with  the move to a huge urban environment, namely London, at around this time as well. You know, 1980 was the first time I heard the word “sustainability,” and that was in the World Conservation Strategy. And then, of course, ’87 was the World Commission on Environment and Development, the Brundtland Report. So I was coming up, if you like, in my career as the early sustainability debates were happening. And then, of course, ’92, it really kicked off with the Rio Earth Summit. But the dominant focus was still environmental sustainability. So that was how I got into sustainability, and, more specifically, into notions of just sustainabilities.

The additional factor I will give is that in the late 1980s as well, growing up as a sort of Black environmentalist in the UK, I met with some other Black environmentalists, and we set up an organization called the Black Environment Network. In many ways, it was because we were hearing about the environmental justice movement in the US, and I was in touch, and this was before, obviously, the internet, so I wrote a letter to Professor Bob Bullard, talking about the work we were doing and expressing admiration for his work, and I got a very nice letter back.

And, you know, that was my real sort of introduction to environmental justice. Now, there were no environmental justice issues of the same magnitude in the UK as there are in the US, largely because the UK isn’t as segregated, and segregation wasn’t baked into urban planning like it is in the US.

But what we did find was that there is a phenomenon in Britain called “rural racism.” Now, I taught geography up in Carlisle, which is right up on the Scottish border, and I used to take schoolkids out into the Lake District, which is one of Britain’s prettiest national parks, most spectacular. It’s Wordsworth country.

And, you know, I was taking largely white schoolkids, in fact, all white schoolkids, out into the rural environment. And, we’d be standing and I’d be explaining the intricacies of the formation of corries or cirques, whatever you want to call them, glaciated basins, up in the mountains, and people would be standing, staring.. And so I got this idea about being Black in a white landscape. And I actually wrote a paper about this.

So we really formulated the Black Environment Network’s whole project on exploring this idea of rural racism. Why is it that if you saw a postcard from London, there would be a good chance that there’d be a Black person in it, but if you saw a postcard from a rural area of Britain, it’d be very rare to see a Black person?

So we started thinking about that. And that was our attempt at an environmental justice action, if you like.

Laura 

Yeah, that’s really fascinating, for sure. And it sounds like this question that I’m going to ask next, you could maybe have multiple different entry points, given your varied career. So, looking back, what advice might you give yourself in your first year on the job, whatever job that might be?

Julian

Looking back, it reminds me of that 1970s Ronnie Lane song; what was it? ’I wish that I knew what I know now When I was younger’

Yeah, let’s think. What advice would I give myself? I mean, I’m in a very reflective phase of my career. I’m, you know, it’s not over, but it’s not just beginning. So I’m in that place where I’m I’m starting to think about how I got to where I got to. And, you know, thinking about it, there was a mixture of intention and serendipity.

Serendipity in the sense that, who knew, in 1980 when I graduated, that there could be a career in sustainability? I mean, you know, the word wasn’t common. But somehow, and this is maybe the serendipity, and maybe this is just my own guided intuition, somehow I knew that issues of equity and social justice were important.

So a reinforcing idea that I’d give myself again is: stick to your guns about what you really believe. And I really believed then that issues of equity and social justice were really integral to sustainability, and my hunch was right. It was a painful journey in many ways.

I mean, especially when I came to the United States in 1998, and, you know, the chair of the department said, ’Julian, what do you want to teach?’ I said, ’Well, I want to teach a class on sustainability.’ ’What’s that?’ ’Well, it’s this idea that, you know… Anyway, the Chair backed me and I still teach that class each SpringAnd it was the first class with ’sustainability’ in the title at Tufts, I think, in about ’99 or 2000. So, yes, go with your hunches, go with your intuition. I think those are the kind of things that I would... I would work with.

Just to finish that point, though, you know, campaigning, as I’ve done my whole career, on issues of equity and social justice within greening and environmentalism has been a tough journey. I mean, we’ve been greatly assisted, obviously, by the environmental justice movement. But trying to argue, often to science-based or certainly ecologically minded people, that equity and social justice are important has been tough.

But we don’t need to argue that so much now. I think there is a general acceptance of how it works. We’re still, you know, working out the details, but the principle, I think, has been established now: that when we look at green cities, like Minneapolis, for instance, probably the second greenest city in the US, but increased social justice doesn’t necessarily attend to greening. In fact, it can do the opposite.

Greener cities are often more expensive, more exclusive than less green cities, because there’s a price premium for walkable, green neighborhoods.

Emma 

Yeah, I was just on a field school, and we took a bunch of students out to study urban sustainability, and that was one of the biggest questions that a lot of them were kind of grappling with: How do you impact the social sustainability more so into these plans?

So, thank you. Our next question would be: Who has been the biggest influence on your career, and what lessons did that person or people teach you?

Julian  

I don’t think there’s any one person that has been the biggest influence. But clearly, as I mentioned, you know, Professor Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice, has been a huge influence. And for any of us who are interested in equity and social justice within environmentalism, he has been a, you know, a classic influence.

You know, I’ve got plenty of colleagues back in the UK who, again, were instrumental in helping me develop my ideas. But, if there were one person, yes, it would be Professor Bob Bullard, and the amazing work that he’s done over the last half-century or more in exposing disproportionate exposure, in the US, and now, environmental justice is an investigational frame that is used around the world.

So I think the original concept of environmental justice was really very influential for me. And now we’ve moved beyond distribution and procedure, we’re looking at issues of recognition.

Laura  

You talked a little bit earlier about the tough landscape of mainstreaming the principle of social equity and justice as part of environmental challenges and sustainability. I guess this next question asks a little bit about the unexpected, if it’s relevant: How has your life in the sustainability world been different than what you imagined?

Julian  

How has my life been different? You know, I don’t want to sound sort of boastful, but I mean different in two ways.

Number one, I never envisaged that I’d have a 30-year career in the US, in higher education in the US. So that’s different. And it came about, again, serendipitously. I was running my own consulting business in London, environmental and sustainability consulting, and post-Rio Earth Summit, all the local governments in Britain wanted to know about sustainability. How do we do it? We’ve got bike lanes, we’re doing recycling, is that enough? Or do we need to do more? And so I started advising local governments, running training courses on literally bringing Rio back home. What does Rio mean, what does Local Agenda 21 mean, in Aberdeen or in Birmingham?

Moving to the United States and finding more skepticism than in Europe about the notion of sustainability, I think one of the things that has really hit me, certainly over the last 25 years of my really pushing the concepts of just sustainabilities, is how influential the concept has become. I mean, in Europe, it’s more often framed as the notion of a just transition. It’s fully respectful of the ideas of just sustainabilities. As I said, in the US, it’s taken longer to gain traction, but in many ways, the equity and social justice aspects were easier in the United States because of the great work of the environmental justice movement.

And I might just add as well, some people say, ’Well, what’s the difference? Just sustainabilities is environmental justice?’ Well, environmental justice is very much a movement, a social movement, that came up from the streets in response to, you know, people being selectively targeted and discriminated against. Whereas, you know, just sustainabilities is a policy idea to integrate equity and social justice into the dominant policy vehicle today, which is sustainability and the development of sustainable communities.

And so we, in the late ’90s, early 2000s, were really trying to push the idea, or to get the justice of environmental justice, into this emerging policy and planning debate about sustainability.

And I think, you know, one of the things that has surprised me is how influential the idea has become, and how much responsibility I feel as a result of that. As being the main protagonist of this idea, there’s a great responsibility. It’s not all just about sitting back and thinking, ’Great idea.’ You know, there’s a responsibility for shaping the idea.

I very much developed the idea as a platform for people to experiment with, whether they’re in urban design, food studies, you know, development of green spaces. I mean, it’s a very malleable set of concepts.

And so, now I get a lot of PhD students looking for advice, a lot of students coming to our master’s programs, who really want to explore the notion of just sustainabilities in their particular area of interest. And I really like that.

And I love it when people do work with the just sustainabilities concepts and come up with new, creative ideas. I love it. That’s one of the greatest pleasures of my life, being an academic, is seeing mainly younger people coming up with great new ways of applying the concept.

Emma  

I love that. I really love that. You mentioned as well that you’re in kind of a reflective point in your career a few moments ago. And our next question is going to be: Could you tell us a bit more about your path to sustainability scholarship, and maybe some key moments, or maybe turning points, along the way?

Julian  

Yeah, again, serendipity comes in. I mean, you know, I finished my PhD in 1996. I did it part time at University of London, but I, in addition to consulting, I was helping a colleague at London South Bank University, and we developed a journal called Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability, which I am now editor-in-chief of nearly 30 years on. My colleague Bob Evans, who founded it with me, he’s long since retired, but that was a milestone for me: forming an academic journal. And it was not a traditional academic journal, nor is it still. It was an attempt to try and bring practitioner and academic discourses around sustainability together.

And I have to say, it didn’t work out that way, because basically, academics write, practitioners don’t. And if they do write, they want it published the next day. They don’t want peer review. They don’t want all of the stuff that we have to go through, of a year or 18 months before you see your paper in publication.

We’ve got a much better approach now. We have a set of papers we call “Practice Reviews,” and we allow Commentaries and Viewpoints so that practitioners can get their words in more quickly than the traditional, more empirical paper. So that was a milestone. Local Environment was a milestone.

My most successful paper ever, Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?, was a complete accident. I arrived at Tufts in 1999, and my first master’s thesis student was a woman called Anja Kollmuss. And Anja wanted to do her thesis on pro-environmental behavior. And so she’d done quite a bit of work, and then, all of a sudden, she decided, ’I don’t want to do this for my thesis. I want to do a thesis on media attitudes to climate change in Germany, Britain, and the US.’

So, let’s stop doing the research on pro-environmental behavior she said. I said. ’Anja, we’ve done so much. Let’s at least get a paper out of this.’

So we put the paper together, and it’s become the most highly cited paper of mine, at now about 12,000 citations. And it was so close to the recycling bin, it was not true. ’Serendipity,’  I thought, let’s get a paper, and it was published in Environmental Education Research, and it is still massively influential, in think tanks, amongst governments, amongst environment agencies around the world. And it really just made this point: that there is no logical sequence between giving people information and them acting in an environmentally friendly manner. It’s illusory to think that the two are linked. And yet, most of the models, information-sharing models, were literally that: the information deficit model.

You know, X has an information deficit. Let me give them information about Y, and then they will behave in a much more environmentally friendly manner. Now we have much more sophisticated social psychological tools, nudging, community-based social marketing. We’ve got all these kinds of...

But that was a big influence in my life, this realization: A) that you could get a paper that almost hit the recycling bin, but B) that information and action are not necessarily automatically linked.

My first major book was Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, and that had a huge influence as well, on me and on the movement in general. And that book is now nearly 25 years old.

So I think some of the great landmarks were my books. You know, I’m now in the phase of collecting accolades!! In 2023, I was given an honorary doctorate by a university, KTH Stockholm in Sweden. And this year, Tufts awarded me the Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025.

So, there’s been milestones. And, you know, I’m not saying I crave recognition, but it’s nice to get it when I feel that I’ve put in the service and come up with some credible and workable ideas that are both, you know, academically robust but also practically useful.

Laura  

Yeah, that’s great. And it’s probably not a surprise to you that I’m not surprised at all by the recognition. I mean, certainly you’re a kitchen-table scholar name in Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology, and the social sciences, in my world … and I imagine in all other worlds as well. That’s really lovely.

So this next question, you’ve kind of talked about it a little bit, but it will be interesting to pose the question and see what your thoughts are: How has your perception or definition of sustainability changed, or not, throughout your career?

Julian  

That’s a great question. I don’t think it has changed, you know. And I can spout off, you know, the just sustainabilities definition: How do we ensure a high quality of life and well-being in a just and equitable manner while living within the limits of supporting ecosystems?

I mean, I was always unsatisfied with the Brundtland and Rio definitions that really only very slightly intimated any issues of equity and social justice, whereas mine has equity and social justice baked into the core.

And I think really one thing that I have become absolutely convinced about, more and more and more, is that we don’t get to equity and social justice. We need to put equity and social justice in the mix at the beginning, when we’re formulating policies and plans, along with the environment, science, and the economics of any policy or planning decision.

So we don’t get to social justice and equity unless we put them in as first-order goals in the mix. Too often I hear policymakers saying, ’Oh, and you know, that might down the line increase social equity.’ Not good enough. No, we need to bake it into our policy and planning formulations and prescriptions.

Emma  

That’s great. You also talked a little bit, I didn’t realize you were a high school geography teacher as well. And I assume you have these two professorships, so you must teach a lot. Our next question is: How would you like your students to remember you?

Julian  

Well, just on the two professorships, you know, I don’t teach a lot, actually. No, I mean, we’re in grad school. We do three classes a year: two plus one, or one plus two.

The secondary professorship is just because one of my classes, Food Justice: Critical Approaches in Policy and Planning, is cross-listed with the Friedman School. So it’s a courtesy appointment, really. I don’t have a heavily functional role in the Friedman School.

How would I like my students to remember me? Well, you know, I got an email about a year ago from a student who’d been in my first Sustainable Communities class in 1999. And they said, "Julian, you talked about just sustainabilities back in ’99. I thought it was interesting, but I really understand what you mean now."

And again, it comes to this point of how more and more of us are realizing that a green city is not necessarily a socially just city. It can be, but we actually have to work out that greening, in and of itself, does not mean social justice. In fact, it can actually mean the opposite.

You know, think about taking down a freeway. One of the reasons why the houses are cheap around the freeway are because the houses are around the freeway. If you take the freeway down, which I agree with, because these racist infrastructures are symbolic and need to go, what do we replace the freeway with? Do we put parks and gardens there? In which case, we’ll have gentrification on steroids, almost like the High Line in New York or the Beltline in Atlanta.  

We really do need to think about issues of social justice and equity within environmental planning, within urban planning more generally. So my students,I think they remember me as somebody who tried to make a difference

And you know, actually, it’s a really good time to be thinking about this, with universities being under attack as they are, and people trying to root out these ’indoctrinators.’ I never tell students what to think. I suggest what they might be thinking about. I give them lots of options to think about different things, but I never say, "This is the right answer." So it’s not indoctrination in any sense.

But I think what they remember is a creative mind, a person who brings together many different knowledges across the social and more natural sciences. I think they remember a person of indefatigable enthusiasm and optimism. And I don’t think you can do what we do without that.

I’m still optimistic, still optimistic about the future, because I think we can change very quickly when we need to. So yeah, I think my students remember somebody who was enthusiastic, who listened, who wanted to hear their experiences.

And just to give an example of that, I call my classes ’educational potlucks.’ The more we all bring to the table, the more we all feast. And so it shows, I think, gives a hint at the very democratic kind of classroom I’m interested in, where everybody has a voice and we all listen respectfully. We may not agree, but we listen to each other’s ideas, and we feast in that educational potluck.

Laura  

I love that idea of an educational potluck. Definitely. That’s something that I hope our readers, when they read this, will pick up, amongst some of the other things you’ve said.

You also were just talking about optimism and the future. So this next question, one of the last, though not the very last, is: What are your hopes for what the future holds?

Julian  

Let me give you two examples of really good progressive policy making that, I think, offer us insight into progressive sustainability, just sustainabilities and policymaking futures.

And these examples are Congestion Pricing, and the food security system in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a city of six million.

So, Belo Horizonte, 1992: a Global South city in an emerging world power, Brazil. They get a Socialist Worker Party mayor who grew up himself in food poverty and wanted his city, Belo Horizonte, of six million, in the middle of the richest agricultural state of Minas Gerais, to thrive.

Why? Why do we have hunger in a city like this?

And so he brought together all the food functions of the city in a kind of super food directorate. He, along with private-sector retailers, set up a scheme whereby people on benefits could receive their food at City-fixed prices. He set up a network of people’s restaurants. All of this cost less than 2% of the city’s budget.

This scheme still runs today, over 30 years on. There’s been a succession of mayors, on the right and on the left, and nobody has dismantled it. Why? Because it’s hugely popular.

Similarly, Ken Livingstone, a left-wing Socialist Mayor of London, developed the Congestion Pricing scheme. The future Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, on the right, didn’t expand the scheme, but he didn’t try and take it apart, because it was popular with shoppers, with bus companies, with strollers; everybody found it useful.

The point here is: progressive policy making, popular progressive policy making, is very difficult to dislodge. And if we as sustainability advocates can come up with programs, like the food security scheme in Belo Horizonte, like Congestion Pricing, that are really popular and almost seem beyond or above politics, then I think we can develop much more sustainable cities.

Now, just to sort of mention again about the Belo Horizonte scheme, another example of the idea of centering social justice, the mayor said, ’Food is an issue of social justice. We need food with dignity. We need to enshrine the Brazilian constitutional right to food at the center of our food policy making.’

So again, it goes back to my point that we need to center social justice and equity, not see them as desirable goals, but see them as starting points on which to build toward more just and equitable futures.

So those are my points of optimism. And there are lots of other examples, I think, of creative policy making that is, and should be, very difficult for any political persuasion to pick apart. Because they’re just good, humane policies that make cities work better.

Emma  

Yeah, I love both of those examples. I was, I did a co-op semester in Brazil, and I was blown away by the availability and affordability of food, especially for university students. Yeah, something that isn’t really as centered here. So, that’s pretty much it for our questions. Our last question is, just: is there anything else that you’d like to share?

Julian  

It’s been a pleasure, I think, to watch the growing sustainability movements around the world. And, you know, I was, as I said, I was in right at the very beginning in the UK in the late ’80s, early ’90s, when sustainability officers started springing up in local governments, and sustainability offices started to have annual conferences, and there was a whole movement. And good to see that in the US as well. But I would like to see a more diverse movement.

You know, one of the things that we in the Black Environment Network, back in the ’80s, were trying to do was, in addition to campaigning against rural racism and to get more Black visitors to the British countryside, one of the great things we were trying to do was to diversify the environmental and sustainability movements. That’s slow progress.

I think the policy and planning changes that I’ve been talking about for the last hour are happening despite only modest  increases in diversity within the movement. The policy and planning changes are good in many ways. I think that we needed those changes, but I think the speed of those changes would be greatly aided with a more diverse sustainability movement, both in academia and in practice.

Really, when I look at the work that I’ve done, it’s been very collaborative. And I think, in many ways, that’s why the work I’ve done has been successful, because I’ve drawn together a very broad coalition of people from very different disciplines. Because, as we know, sustainability is the province of no one specialization or discipline. It takes a wide range of views and standpoints.

And, in all the books, because that’s been my main contribution, books, rather than necessarily journal articles, in all my books, they’ve been very collaborative. And what I’ve tried to do is to, in the edited collections, bring in people, both established voices and new voices.

One new voice in 2011, Professor Alison Alkon who co-edited Cultivating Food Justice with me, she helped me bring in a lot of just-post-doc researchers into the book, and who are now, 15 years on, and now, flourishing researchers in their own right. And so that gives me a lot of satisfaction, a lot of hope for the future, that some of that early mentorship, and nowadays the later-career mentorship that I do, I have to say as well, given some of the comments I made earlier about the lack of diversity in the sustainability and urban planning fields, I do prioritize a lot of my mentorship for intending planners, sustainability officers of color who might need a little bit of extra help to get that first job.

So, mentorship, yeah, has been a very important part of my career and is continuing to be as my career progresses.

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