Charles L. Redman
Professor
Director, School of Sustainability
Ph.D., Archaeology, University of Chicago
SHESC Themes: Societies and their Natural Environments, Urban Societies
Field Specializations: Archaeology, Complex Societies, Environmental Studies, Human-Environment Interaction, Land Use
Regional Foci: Mediterranean, Near East, North America (Southwest)
Contact: Charles L. Redman, GIOS 412
Research:
Charles L. Redman's interests include human impacts on the environment, sustainable landscapes, rapid urbanizing regions, urban ecology, environmental education and public outreach. The author or co-author of 10 books, including "Explanation in Archaeology," "The Rise of Civilization," "People of the Tonto Rim," "Human Impact on Ancient Environments" and, most recently, "The Archaeology of Global Change," he has directed archaeological field projects in the Near East, North Africa and Arizona.
Redman has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on 50 research grants from federal, state and private agencies. Eight years ago he began co-directing the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project, the first established by the National Science Foundation in an urban arid locale. He is also co-directing the expansion of this urban ecological research to include an innovative interdisciplinary Ph.D. program sponsored by the National Science Foundation (IGERT), a Biocomplexity in the Environment grant on Agricultural Landscapes in Transition and a recently funded Decision Center for a Desert City program.
Redman is also a founding member of the Southwest Center for Education and the Natural Environment (SCENE) and is currently the vice president of the state chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He has served as a member of several state and national councils, including the Arizona Advisory Council on Environmental Education; the state's Archaeology Advisory Commission, of which he was the chair; and the governor's Groundwater Management Commissions, of which he was subcommittee chair. He has also been a member of the Science Advisory Committees of Biosphere 2 and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Research Projects:
Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics
The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration
Social Vulnerability, Water Resources and Climatic Uncertainty in Exurban Arizona Communities
Teaching:
Redman received his B.A. from Harvard University and his master's and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He taught at New York University and at SUNY-Binghamton before coming to ASU in 1983. Since then, he served for nine years as chair of the Department of Anthropology, seven years as the director of the Center for Environmental Studies and in November of 2004 he was chosen to be the Julie Ann Wrigley Director of the newly formed International Institute for Sustainability.
Select Publications:
Falconer, S. E. and Redman, C. L. (Eds.) (2009). Polities and power: Archaeological perspectives on the landscapes of early states. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Costanza, R. et al. (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. et al. (2007). Estimating the effect of protected lands on the development and conservation of their surroundings. Conservation Biology, 21(6), 1526-1536.
Redman, C. L. (2005). Resilience in archaeology. American Anthropology, 107(1), 70-77.
Redman, C. L., James, S. R., Fish, P. R. & Rogers, J. D. (2004). The archaeology of global change: The impact of humans on their environment. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Redman, C. L. (2003). Resilience of past landscapes: Resilience theory, society and the Longue Durée. Conservation Ecology, 7(1): 14.
