Associate Professor and Co-Environmental Studies Undergraduate Advisor
Email: peter.marcotullio@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-5264
Fax: 212-772-5268
Office: 1043 HN

Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065

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Biography:

Prof. Marcotullio is a Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College (2007 – present) where he teaches in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, the Department of Geography and in the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. Courses include “Nature and Environment in New York City,” “Environmental Planning,” “Global Cities,” “Urbanization and the Environment” and “Planning for Urban Ecosystems.”

Prof. Marcotullio is also Senior Fellow at the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. His research interests include urban sustainable development, urban environmental transition theories, globalization and urban change, urban and regional environmental planning and the relationship between urbanization and environment change. He has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. His co-edited volumes include, (forthcoming) Connected Cities: Hinterlands, Hierarchies and Networks, Sage publications, with Michael Douglass, Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back, (2007), Earthscan, James & James, Pub, with Gordon McGranahan, Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American, and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions (2004), Ashgate Publishing Limited, with Andre Sorenson and Jill Grant, and Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region (2001) UNU Press, with Fu-Chen Lo.

Education:

Ph.D.	1996	Columbia University, Urban Planning
M.A.	1989	Columbia University, Geography
M.A.	1983	University of Pennsylvania, Biology/Ecology
B.A.	1979	University of Pennsylvania, Psychology

Research Interests:

urban environmental transitions, globalization and urban development, ecosystem approaches to urban and regional environmental planning and management and impacts of urbanization on the environment