New Reports Published on EJ and Brownfields.(environmental justice and brownfields)

Public Management, October, 2001

ICMA has worked with many local governments and community groups to research brownfields redevelopment and environmental justice (EJ) issues. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities in which expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.

Nearly every community in America faces the challenges of brownfields redevelopment. Through its research, ICMA has identified a number of "best practices" that can be applied to any community brownfields redevelopment project. Internal Coordination Local agencies and departments can achieve new levels of service delivery information sharing and cooperation by educating peers, inventorying resources, and examining how...