Robert Gottlieb is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies
and Director of the Urban and Environmental
Policy Institute. He is the author and co-author of eleven
books, including Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007) The
Next Los Angeles: The struggle for a Livable City with UEPI faculty and staff
Mark Vallianatos, Regina Freer and Peter Dreier (UC Press 2006); Forcing
the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (Island Press, 1993); and
Environmentalism
Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change (MIT Press, 2001). He is also the
editor of several MIT Press series and imprints, including "Urban
and Industrial Environments," "Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Books," "
Food, Health, and Environment," and "Food and Society Books". Professor Gottlieb
was the 1996 University of California Distinguished Wellness Lecturer and has received the award
on two occasions for supervising the most outstanding student project from the American Institute
for Collegiate Planners.