Christopher A. De Sousa, Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Chair

Office: Bolton Hall 496
Phone: 414-229-4874
Fax: 414-229-3981
Email: desousa@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
Professor Christopher De Sousa
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Toronto, 2000
M.Sc.Pl., Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 1996
B.A., Environment and Resource Management, Geography, University of Toronto, 1994

Current Courses: Spring 2008
Geography 464, WF 9:30-10:45

Geography 600
WF 2:00-3:15

Urban Planning 720
M 9:30am-12:15pm

Office Hours:
WF 11:00am-12:00pm

Research and Teaching Interests:
Brownfield Redevelopment
Urban Environmental Management/Ecology
Resource Conservation
Green Building Development

Representative Publications:
De Sousa, C., Gramling, B., and LeMoine, K. 2007. "Evaluating Progress Toward Sustainable Development in Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley: Linking Brownfields Redevelopment with Community Quality of Life." In J. Sirgy, D. Rahtz, and R. Phillips (eds.) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III. (Blacksburgh, Virginia: International Society for Quality of Life Studies: 81-101).

Unearthing the Benefits of Brownfield to Green Space Projects: An examination of project use and quality of life impacts, Local Environment, 11(5), 2006, pp. 577-600.

Green Futures for Industrial Brownfields. In: The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City, edited by R. Platt, University of Massachusetts Press (in association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), Amherst, MA, 2006, pp. 154-168.

Urban Brownfields Redevelopment in Canada: the role of local government, The Canadian Geographer 50(3), 2006, pp. 392-407.

2005 State of the Valley: Evaluating Change in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley (with B. Gramling, and K. Lemoine). Report prepared for Menomonee Valley Benchmarking Initiative, UW-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research and the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center, 2006, www.mvbi.org

Policy Performance and Brownfield Redevelopment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Professional Geographer, 57(2), 2005, pp. 312-327.

The Greening of Brownfields in American Cities, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 47(4), 2004, pp. 579-600.

The State of Milwaukee's Environment. Milwaukee: Center for Economic Development, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2004, pp.28.

Turning Brownfields into Green Space in the City of Toronto, Landscape and Urban Planning, 62(4), 2003, pp. 181-198.