Professor of Sustainability

Year Joined RCNJ: 2009

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-6616
• Email: vasishth@ramapo.edu
• Office: G-202A
• Office Hours: seven days a week, 8am to 8pm, provided making an appointment using:calendly.com/vasishth/google-meet-30
• Personal Website

Education:

• Ph.D. in Environmental Planning, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Courses Offered:

• World Sustainability
• Ecology, Economy, Ethics
• Sustainable Communities

Teaching Interest:

• Sustainability Planning
• International Development
• Regional Environmental Planning

Research Interest:

• Urban regional policy and planning, based on smart growth and green infrastructure principles.
• The design and implementation of environmental policies supporting urban habitat conservation planning, urban forestry, native vegetation, impervious surface management and heat island mitigation based on the principles of urban ecology and ecosystem resilience.
• Campus sustainability planning based on integrative approaches to curriculum reorganization, multidisciplinary research, and stakeholder-based community activism.
• Participatory community-based environmentally-oriented sustainability policy and planning research.

Recent Publications:

• Vasishth, Ashwani. 2008. “A Scale-Hierarchic Ecosystem Approach to Integrative Ecological Planning,” Progress In Planning, v70n3 (October 2008): 99-132.
• Vasishth, Ashwani & David C. Sloane. 2002. “Returning to Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach to Understanding the City,” pp343-366 in Michael Dear (ed.), 2002, From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory, Thousand Oaks, SSHS: Sage Publications.