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Stephen Zavestoski

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I am currently Sustainability Director for the College of Arts & Sciences and Co-Director, Environmental Studies Program, University of San Francisco, USA, specializing in environmental health movements and urban sustaianbility. My co-edited books include Social Movements in Health (2005, Blackwell), Contested Illnesses: Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements (2012, UC Press), and Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and Possibilities (2014, Routledge)

Most recently, my work explores strategies to address both sustainability and public health through urban and transportation planning. This work culminated in Incomplete Streets, which problematizes the Complete Streets concept, a movement in urban planning and policy to design and engineer streets to enable safe access for all users–pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. Incomplete Streets critically examines whether, or how, Complete Streets policies might undermine sustainability goals by exacerbating various forms of inequality.

My past work includes investigation of disease sufferers' strategies to link health conditions to environmental contamination, and how citizens engage in the scientific process and policymaking in order to shape research and policy agendas. Initially focused on environmental health activism in the U.S., I extended this work in 2006 during a Fulbright studying environmental health activism in India. This research resulted in multiple publications on the legacy of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster and the movement for justice that followed.

In other work I have researched the use of Internet technology as a means of increasing public participation in environmental decision-making and the role of the self-concept in shaping environmental and anti-consumption attitudes.