Charles L. Redman

Director, School of Sustainability

Professor, School of Sustainability

Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

urbanization; resilience; sustainability; human-environment interactions; land use; trade-offs in food and water production; archaeology; complex societies.

SOS 510: Principles of Sustainability

SOS 111/PUP 190: Sustainable Cities

Dr. Redman's interests include human impacts on the environment, sustainable landscapes, rapidly urbanizing regions, urban ecology, societal resilience, environmental education, and public outreach. His work focuses on global change and landscape transition, using both the tools of archaeology to acquire a very long-term perspective, and the cutting-edge techniques of remote sensing to project future scenarios from current patterns. Redman has been committed to interdisciplinary research since, as an archaeology graduate student, he worked in the field with botanists, zoologists, geologists, art historians, and ethnographers. As inaugural director of the School of Sustainability he is creating a new approach to higher education that is collaborative, transdisciplinary, and problem-oriented to address the enmeshed environmental, economic, and social challenges of the 21st century. Dr. Redman teaches Perspectives on Sustainability.

Selected Publlications

Costanza, R., L. Graumlich, W. Steffen, C. Crumley, J. Dearing, K. Hibbard, R. Leemans, C. Redman, and D. Schimel. 2007. Sustainability or collapse: What can we learn from integrating the history of humans and the rest of nature? Ambio 36(7):522-527.

McDonald, R.I., C. Yuan-Farrell, C. Fievet, M. Moeller, P. Kareiva, D. Foster, T. Gragson, A. Kinzig, L. Kuby, and C. Redman. 2007. Estimating the effect of protected lands on the development and conservation of their surroundings. Conservation Biology 21(6):1526-1536. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00799.x.

Redman, C. L. 2005. Resilience in archaeology. American Anthropology 107(1), 70-77.

Redman, C. L., S. R. James, P. R., Fish, and J. D. Rogers,. 2004. The archaeology of global change: The impact of humans on their environment. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC

Redman, C. L. and A. P. Kinzig. 2003. Resilience of past landscapes: Resilience theory, society, and the longue durée. Conservation Ecology 7(1):14. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss1/art14 .

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971

M.A., University of Chicago, 1969

B.A., Harvard University, 1967