Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? Book

Chapter 1: Environmental Justice: Overview Chapter 2: Environmental Awareness, Hazardous Waste, and the Disproportionate Impact on Low-income Communities and Communities of Color Chapter 3: Methods and Issues Chapter 4: Hazardous Wastes and Spatial Relations According to Race and Income in the State of Michigan Chapter 5: Environmental Justice and the Latino Community Chapter 6: A Comparative Analysis of Flint Area Zip Codes: Evidence of One Community’s Disproportionate Burden of Environmental Hazards Chapter 7: A Case Study: The Controversy Between Environmental Disposal Systems and Residents of the City of Romulus, Michigan Over the Siting of a Deep Injection Well on Wahrman Road Chapter 8: The Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Facility Chapter 9: The Multifaceted Nature of Pollution, Environmental Cleanup and Issues of Disparate Impact and Health Chapter 11:Jobs and Economic Growth v. Environmental Protection Debate Chapter 12: Berlin & Farro: Perhaps Michigan’s Worst Toxic Disposal Site

Bunyan Bryant and Elaine Hockman are professors at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. For the last twenty years they have taught courses on environmental justice and have written articles published in several books. Presently Hockman is the research director of the Environmental Justice Initiative. The Initiative’s mission is research, retrieval dissemination conferences, and policy briefings. Bryant is the director of the Initiative and has been the recipient of many awards namely: The Damu Smith Power of One Environmental Justice Award, the Dream Keeper Award for his tireless work to enhance diversity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice Award for outstanding service as a charter member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and the William D. Milliken Distinguished Service Award, the state of Michigan highest environmental award.
Author Residence: Ann Arbor, Flint and Detroit, Michigan.