The Institute’s work seeks to clarify and quantify the environmental and economic impacts of brownfields redevelopment. This information is valuable to stakeholders at the federal, state, and local levels because accurate information can be used to estimate the impacts of any proposed policy changes or adjustments in funding levels that affect capacity to stimulate brownfields redevelopment.
Northeast-Midwest Institute Reports and Papers
- Environmental and Economic Impacts of Brownfields Redevelopment, a working draft for distribution, Full Report, July 2008
- Environmental and Economic Impacts of Brownfields Redevelopment, presentation, November 2009
- Environmental and Economic Impacts of Brownfields Redevelopment, a working draft for distribution, Executive Summary, July 2008
- Energy Benefits of Urban Infill, Brownfields, and Sustainable Urban Redevelopment, April 2008
Environmental and Economic Impact Links to Research and Publications by Others
- Urban Land Institute, Smart Growth America, and National Center for Smart Growth, Growing Cooler, Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, Dec, 2007.
- De Sousa, C., Residential Development Activity on Brownfields in Milwaukee and Chicago: An Examination of Redevelopment Trends, Developer Perceptions, and Future Prospects, September, 2006
- George Washington University, Brownfields-Greenfields Land Trade-off Study: Public Policies and Private Decisions Affecting the Redevelopment of Brownfields: An Analysis of Critical Factors, Relative Weights and Areal Differentials, 2001
- Howland, Marie, Employment Effects of Brownfield Redevelopment: What Do We Know from the Literature? National Center for Environmental Economics, January, 2007
- Urban Land Institute, Smart Growth America, and National Center for Smart Growth, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, December, 2007
- U.S. Conference of Mayors, Clean Air Brownfields Report, December, 2001
- US. Conference of Mayors, Recycling America’s Land, a National Report on Brownfields Redevelopment January, 2008
- Wernstedt, Kris, Lauren Heberle, Anna Alberini, and Peter Meyer, The Brownfields Phenomenon: Much Ado about Something or the Taming of the Shrewd, Resources for the Future, November, 2004, Discussion Paper 04–46
- Wernstedt, Kris, National Center for Environmental Economics, Overview of Existing Studies on Community Impacts of Land Use, 2004
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