Brownfields & Environmental Justice (Volume 8, No. 1: Winter 2001)
By current estimates, there are nearly half a million brownfields, or derelict and possibly contaminated sites in our cities. These abandoned places, in many cases still leaking toxic chemicals into land, air or water, are most often concentrated in low income communities where the majority of residents are people of color. Compounding the health threats posed by the brownfields sites, these communities are also more likely to harbor other undesirable and unhealthful land uses, such as power generation, sewage treatment plants, waste disposal sites, highways and truck routes.
Editor's Notes
2 About This Issue
by Torri Estrada & Martha Olson
Community Stories
3 LuLus and their Problems
Interview: Michelle Alvarez
3 We've Been Given the "Teta"
Interview: Dolores Herrera
From the Ground Up - Community Participation
5 Assessing Community Needs
by Pamela Rice & Kaori Sakaguchi
6 Community Participation Is Key to Environmental Justice
by Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
8 A New Model: Participatory Planning for Sustainable Community Development
by Virginia Seitz
A Matter of the Law
12 Liability & Local Influence
by Kacy C. Keys & Craig S. Keys
14 What Non Profits Need To Make It Work
Interview: Peggy Sheppard
13 Liability & Lending Legislation
15 Out of Site, Out of Mind, The Problem of Institutional Controls
by Robert Hersh & Kris Wernstedt
Getting a Handle on Development
17 In Detroit: Community Development Corporations Working for Environmental Justice
by Troy Hartley
18 Why Can't Communities Get a Piece of the Pie?
Interview: Allen Edson
19 Bethel New Life & Argonne National Laboratory
by Torri Estrada
20 Winning Community Control, Subsidies Attract Developers
Interview: Peggy Sheppard
20 Brownfields as a Way to Retake the Cities
Interview: Allen Edson
State Brownfields Laws
22 From the Web: The Massachusetts Brownfields Act
23 Florida Adopts Environmental Justice Legislation
23 Pocantico Round Table
Interview: Peggy Sheppard
Youth, Jobs and Environmental Education
24 How to Look at a Brownfield and See a Flower Garden
by Belvie Rooks
28 Nine Mile Run Greenway
by John Stephen
Final Words from the Front: New Risks
30 There Goes the Neighborhood
31 Gentrification
Interview: Allen Edson
32 Brownfields Revitalization Without Displacement - A Progress Report From Portland
by Geri Washington
33 Gentrification and Transportation are Environmental Justice Issues
Interview: Kevia Jeffrey
33 On Working Regionally
Interview: Allan Hippolito
34 Recommendations for Responsible Brownfield Revitalization
36 News from the Urban Habitat Program
37 What's New at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
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