Urban Sustainability

Channel your passion for environmental issues into a practical career that can help save the planet. The urban sustainability program will provide you with the knowledge, power, and skills to promote sustainable policies and practices in your neighborhood and beyond.

Degrees

Undergraduate Accelerated Master’s Program

Resources

Undergraduate Courses
What You Can Do With An Urban Sustainability Degree
Meet Our Students
Pod Walks
Sustainability at Brooklyn College

More About the Program

The program takes a unique interdisciplinary approach by offering concentrations in economics, environmental science, and sociology. It examines the dynamics between social and natural systems as well as the trade-offs among environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Brooklyn College’s metropolitan setting gives you the opportunity to observe firsthand the issues affecting our cities and devise creative and hands-on solutions that foster environmental protection, social equity, and economic vitality. Alongside your course work, you will learn how to use our geographic information system (GIS) laboratory to produce and analyze data to solve urban sustainability problems. Field trips have included community gardens, local beaches and waterways, public transportation facilities, and city parks. Having the advantage of learning about sustainability from this holistic perspective, you will graduate from the program exceptionally prepared to make our cities, and the world, healthier and more livable.

Steering Committee

Rebecca Boger, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Yehuda Klein, Economics
Tammy Lewis, Sociology
Michael Menser, Philosophy
Jeremy Porter, Sociology
Merih Uctum, Economics
Tony Wilson, Biology
One student selected annually

Contact Information

Program Director: Tammy Lewis