Professor Bob Evans

Name: Professor Bob Evans
Tel: 0191 227 3500

Bob Evans was Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute until January, 2008, and is now a Professor working with colleagues in SCRI and the School of the Built Environment on a number of research projects.  He is author of many books, book chapters and articles on land use planning, sustainability, environmental policy, environmental justice and local governance. He is co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Local Environment and he has worked as a town planner in the public, private and community sectors. He was the UK Chair of the of the European Union’s Working Group on Urban Environmental Management and a member of the Award Panel for the 2003 European Sustainable Cities and Towns Award.

Selected Publications

Books

1. Agyeman,J & Evans,B (eds)(1994) Local Environmental Policies and Strategies, Longman, Harlow
2. Evans,B (1995) Experts and Environmental Planning, Avebury, Aldershot
3. Buckingham-Hatfield,S & Evans,B (eds)(1996) Environmental Planning and Sustainability, Wiley, Chichester
4. Blowers,A & Evans,B (eds)(1997) Town Planning into the 21st Century, Routledge, London
5. Bate,R & Evans,B (2000) A Taxing Question: the contribution of economic instruments to planning objectives, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York
6. Evans,B & Theobald,K (2001) Accelerating Local Sustainability: Evaluating European Local Agenda 21 Processes, ICLEI, Freiburg
7. Agyeman,J, Bullard,B & Evans,B (eds)(2003) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, MIT Press, Boston & Earthscan, London
8. Blair,F & Evans,B (2004) Seeing the Bigger Picture: tools for local sustainability, York Publishing Services, York
9. Evans,B, Joas,M, Sundback,S & Theobald,K (2004) Governing Sustainable Cities, Earthscan, London

Book Chapters:

1. Agyeman,J & Evans,B (1994) The New Environmental Agenda in Agyeman,J & Evans,B (eds) Local Environmental Policies and Strategies, Longman, Harlow
2. Evans,B (1995) Delivering Local Agenda 21: the UK Experience in Fodor,I & Walker,G (eds) Environmental Policy and Practice: Perspectives from East and West, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest
3. Evans,B (1995) Can we have sustainability without the recoupment of development value? in Elworthy,S et al (eds) Perspectives on the Environment, Avebury, Aldershot
4. Buckingham-Hatfield,S & Evans,B (1996) Achieving sustainability through environmental planning in Buckingham-Hatfield,S & Evans,B(eds) Environmental Planning and Sustainability, Wiley, Chichester
5. Agyeman,J & Evans,B (1996) Black on Green:Race, ethnicity and the environment in Buckingham-Hatfield,S & Evans,B (eds)Environmental Planning and Sustainability, Wiley, Chichester
6. Evans,B (1997) From town planning to environmental planning in Blowers,A & Evans,B (eds)Town Planning into the 21st Century, Routledge, London
7. Evans,B & Rydin,Y (1997) Planning, expertise and sustainability in Blowers,A & Evans,B (eds) Town Planning into the 21st Century, Routledge, London
8. Evans,B (1998) The rhetoric of Rio and the problem of local sustainability in Kivell,P et al(eds) Environmental Planning and Land Use, Avebury, Aldershot
9. Evans,B (1999) The opportunities and challenges for local environmental policy and action in Britain in Buckingham-Hatfield,S & Percy,S (eds) Constructing Environmental Agendas, Routledge, London
10. Evans,B (2001) Scenarios for the sustainable development of deprived urban areas in Devuyst,D, Hens,L & Impens,S (eds) Sustainable Urban Development and Neighbourhoods in Crisis, VUB University Press, Brussels
11. Evans,B & Theobald,K (2002) Local Agenda 21 and the shift to ‘soft governance’ in Buckingham,S & Theobald,K Local Environmental Sustainability, Woodhead, Cambridge
12. Agyeman,J & Evans,B (2006) Justice, governance and sustainability: perspectives on environmental citizenship from North America and Europe in Dobson,A & Bell,D(eds) Environmental Citizenship, MIT Press, Boston
13. Evans,B, Joas,M, Sundback,S & Theobald,K (2008) Local Governing for Sustainable Development in Baker,S & Eckerberg,K (eds) In Pursuit of Sustainable Development, Routledge, London (Forthcoming)
14. Evans,B (2008) Urban Sustainability in Europe in Nel,J (ed) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Edward Elgar, London (Forthcoming)

Recent Refereed Journal Articles:

1. Evans,B & Theobald,K (2002) Local Agenda 21 and the European Experience, Sostainable Vol 4 No 1
2. Agyeman,J, Bullard,B & Evans,B (2003) Exploring the Nexus: Bringing together sustainability, environmental justice and equity, Space and Polity Vol 6 No 1
3. Evans,B & Theobald,K (2003) LASALA: Evaluating Local Agenda 21 in Europe, Journal of Environmental Management and Planning, Vol 46 No 5
4. Agyeman,J & Evans,B (2004) ‘Just sustainability’: the emerging discourse of environmental justice in Britain, Geographical Journal Vol 170 No 2
5. Bulkeley,H, Davies,A, Evans,B, Gibbs, D, Kern, K & Theobald,K (2003) Environmental governance and transnational municipal networks in Europe, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning Vol 5 No 3
6. Evans, B, Joas,M, Sundback,M & Theobald,K (2005), Citizens, NGOs and the Possibility to Influence Local Policies for Sustainable Development – The Nordic Countries in a European Comparison’ Nordisk Administrativ Tidskrift January
7. Joas,M, Evans,B & Theobald,K (2005) Evaluating governance for local sustainability: online tools for self-assessment, Progress in Industrial Ecology Vol 2 No 3/4
8. Evans,B, Joas,M, Sundback,S & Theobald,K (2006) Governing Local Sustainability, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (in press)
9. Walker,G, Hunter,S, Devine-Wright,P, Evans,B & Fay,H (2006) Harnessing community energies: explaining community based localism in renewable energy policy in the UK, Global Environmental Politics Vol 7 No 2
10. Evans,B, Joas,M, Sundback,S & Theobald,K (2007) Local Agenda 21 in Europe: the second phase of ecological modernisation in local government, Economiaz

Recent Research Grants

1. 2001-2003: Developing Institutional and Social Capital for Urban Sustainability (DISCUS) (European Commission 5th Framework, €1,000,000)
2. 2002-2003: Mainstreaming Sustainability into Local Government Policy Making Structures. (Economic and Social Research Council, £40,000)
3. 2003-2004: LASALA Online (European Commission 5th Framework, €350,000)
4. 2004-2005: Trends and indicators for monitoring the EU thematic strategy on sustainable development of urban environment (TISSUE) (European Commission 6th Framework, €450,000)
5. 2003-2004: Tools for Local Sustainability (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, £35,000)
6. 2004-2006: Harnessing Community Energies (Economic and Social Research Council Sustainable Technologies Programme, £175,000)
7. 2005-2006: Sustainability Tools and Targets for the Urban Thematic Strategy (STATUS) (European Commission 6th Framework, €450,000)
8. 2005-2006: Urban Sustainable Development: Research into Action (RELAY) (European Commission 6th Framework €150,000) (with UN Habitat)
9. 2006-2007: Aalborg Commitments Tool and Resources (ACTOR)(European Commission 6th Framework, €450,000)
10. 2005-2008: Beyond Nimbyism: a multi-disciplinary investigation of public engagement in renewable energy technologies (ESRC Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy Programme, £570,000)

Recent Appointments

2001 Member ICLEI International Experts Panel on Local Agenda 21, Stavangar, Norway
2002 Member International Expert Panel, European Cities 21 Conference, Oslo
2003 Member Award Panel for the European Sustainable Cities and Towns Award
2004-5 UK Government appointed Chair of the European Union Working Group on Urban Environmental Management
2006- Chair Advisory Board Managing Europe 25 – Rethinking Environmental Management Systems
2006- Expert Advisor to the Irish Environmental Protection Agency’s Fellowship Programme
2006-7 Member Scientific Committee to the EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environment Programme Conference 2007
2006 Member Academic Delegation to Rykoko University, Kyoto, Japan to meet local government and academic researchers, November
2006-7 Independent Advisor to the European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign
2006 Expert Advisor to the Belgium Government Research Office (Belspo) research programme on Urban Sustainable Development