Alex Russ
Ithaca
Alex Kudryavtsev (pen name: Alex Russ) is an online course instructor for EECapacity, an EPA-funded environment educator training project led by Cornell University and NAAEE (PI: Marianne Krasny). Alex grew up in Russia. He finished his MS. and PhD at Cornell focusing on urban environmental education and sense of place in the Bronx, New York City. Alex is facilitating a national online community of 50+ educators who are co-writing an e-book on urban environmental education. Alex’s research interests include environmental psychology, urban environment, green urbanism, and environmental education.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Environmental Education Generates Urban Sustainability
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Accessing Urban Environmental Education Opportunities Via Green Infrastructure
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Common threads: connections among the ideas of Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom, and their relevance to urban socio-ecology
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Sense of Place
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Environmental Education and Advancing Urbanization
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Environmental education in cities focuses on youth and community development, restoring ecosystems, building green infrastructure, and more. But is urban environmental education really anything new? What should its goals and practices look like?
