Director
Center for Sustainable Communities
Research Professor
Department of Community & Regional Planning

Dr. Jeffrey Featherstone joined the Ambler College of Temple University in September 2001 as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, and Associate Professor of Planning in the new Department of Community and Regional Planning (CRP). He was appointed Chair of the CRP department in October 2002 and has served in that capacity until August 2006. The Department began offering undergraduate and graduate degree courses for the first time in Fall 2002. Dr. Featherstone’s teaching expertise includes planning theory, planning law and administration, and environmental planning and politics.

Dr. Featherstone, who specializes in water resources management and dispute resolution, served as a member of the Long's Peak Working Group in 1992, an advisory body to President-elect Bill Clinton on national water policy and sustainability. The group's final report, entitled: "America's Waters: A New Era of Sustainability," served as the starting point for the administration's policy and regulatory agenda. In 1995, he served as a ranking member of the U.S. Water Resources Delegation to China, and has advised Chinese government officials on water conservation and sustainability issues. Dr. Featherstone is the former Deputy Executive Director of the Delaware River Basin Commission, an interstate agency responsible for management of water resources in the 13,000-square-mile area drained by the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. Previously, he was the Director of Planning for the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, a hydrologist and planner with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and a research specialist at the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Dr. Featherstone has served on review boards for professional associations and he has been published in conference proceedings or professional journals of the American Water Works Association, American Political Science Association, Universities Council on Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, and National Ground Water Association. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Temple University.