Sandeep Agrawal, PhD, MCIP, RPP, AICP

Area of Study / Keywords

human rights migration Indigenous issues energy transition municipal governance climate change

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About

Dr. Sandeep Agrawal is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He was an Associate Chair in the department and Inaugural director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning between 2013 and 2023. During his tenure as director, he led the development of MSc Planning and PhD specialization in urban planning, and established the School in 2018. Prior to moving to the University of Alberta, he was Associate Director and Founding Graduate Program Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson).

Dr. Agrawal has a diverse array of research interests that encompasses sustainable urban and rural planning, energy transition, Indigenous issues, and human rights. Among several national and international grants (including SSHRC, CFREF and others) he has received, the most recent one is $98.6M CFREF grant, in which he is the project lead from the University of Alberta. He is a co-investigator in an NSERC/SSHRC/NSF-funded Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts. As an accomplished author with over a hundred articles and professional reports and three books, Dr. Agrawal has contributed to planning practice and affected city bylaws and planning policies and legislation, with a lens on human rights and equity. Hu published a book entitled Rights and the City: Problems, Progress and Practice. His most recent book is Municipal Boundary Battles.

Dr. Agrawal is a recipient of the Canadian Institute of Planners’ national academic award for his significant contribution to planning education and research in the country. 

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Teaching

land use planning, research proposal development, planning studios, urban design

check out my newly edited books: 

"Municipal Boundary Battles" published by the University of Alberta Press, 2024

https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772127454/municipal-boundary-battles/

"Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice" published by the University of Alberta Press, 2022.

On Amazon: Rights and the City: Problems, Progress, and Practice

EXLGP 8212 - Sustainable Communities

Provides a brief introduction to land use planning theory, law, and processes. Environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability will be discussed using an integrated framework of various forms of community capital. Students will also examine governance and decision-making through the perspective of sustainability.

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Sandeep Budde, Sandeep Agrawal, Nilusha P. Y. Welegedara

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 2025 December; 10.1080/07038992.2025.2564173

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Sandeep Agrawal, Cody Gretzinger

Planning Practice & Research. 2025 October; 10.1080/02697459.2025.2574634

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Debadutta Parida, Sandeep Agrawal, Hana Ambury

Planning Practice & Research. 2025 July; 10.1080/02697459.2025.2499682

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Sandeep K. Agrawal

Planning Practice & Research. 2024 November; 10.1080/02697459.2024.2409462

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Sandeep Agrawal

Edmonton. 2024 July;

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Maggie Perzyna, Sandeep Agrawal

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. 2024 July; 10.1080/15562948.2022.2080896

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Nilusha P.Y. Welegedara, Sandeep K. Agrawal

Sustainable Cities and Society. 2024 February; 10.1016/j.scs.2023.105098

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Debadutta Parida, Sandeep Agrawal

Climate and Development. 2024 January; 10.1080/17565529.2023.2178254

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Nilusha P.Y. Welegedara, Sandeep K. Agrawal, Ghazal Lotfi

Sustainable Cities and Society. 2023 March; 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104403

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Sandeep Agrawal, Hana Ambury, Debadutta Parida, Neelakshi Joshi

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2022 September; 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103175

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Agrawal, Sandeep

Edmonton. 2022 June;

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Joshi, N. & Agrawal, S.

Energy Research and Social Science. 2022 February; 88 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102524

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Agrawal, Sandeep; Cody Gretzinger and Andrew Lowerre

Land Use Policy. 2022 January; 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105775

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Agrawal, Sandeep and Zoe, celine

Housing Policy Debate. 2021 May; 10.1080/10511482.2021.1881986

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Agrawal, S. Welegedara, N. Parida, D.

Journal of Rural and Community Development. 2021 May; 16 (3):56-83

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Joshi, N., Agrawal, S. & Welegedara, N.

Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 2021 April; 14 (2):283-299

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Sandeep Agrawal

Journal of American Planning Association. 2020 June;

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Sandeep Agrawal

Journal of International Migration and Integration. 2019 June; 20 (4):941-962

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Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Shishir Mathur and Sandeep Agrawal

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