Tony Arnold University of Louisville
Tony Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use at the University of Louisville, where he teaches in the Brandeis School of Law and the urban planning, sustainability, and PhD programs of the Department of Urban and Public Affairs. He also directs the interdisciplinary Resilience Justice Project. He received the Trustees Award and several other awards for his teaching and mentoring, and many national and international awards and honors for the impact of his research on knowledge, as well as on public policy and law. Professor Arnold’s research, teaching, and community service are at the intersections of resilience and adaptative capacities, resilience justice, environmental justice, planning (including adaptive planning), watersheds, green and blue infrastructure, land use, water, climate change, green gentrification, inclusive community engagement and empowerment, law, and adaptive governance institutions. His books include Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning (APA) and the forthcoming Racial Justice in American Land Use (Cambridge). His community-engaged research has received funding from the US EPA, USGS, NSF, NIH, HUD, and several foundations. Professor Arnold has served on many government commissions and nonprofit boards, including the Louisville Climate Action Task Force.
Research Interests: resilience justice; adaptive planning; environmental justice; land-use/water/watersheds (interrelationships among land, water, & watersheds)
Collaborative Interests: grant collaborations, guest lectures, publications, research collaborations, community engagement and empowerment
