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Three Regional Workshops on the Intersection between Environmental Justice and Local Land Use Planning and Zoning
The Ford Foundation (posted: 9/21/2005)
The Academy and the Albany Law School—with support from the Ford Foundation—are convening three regional workshops to encourage and improve coordination among federal, state, and local agencies to address current environmental justice issues and prevent future problems. The workshop participants will include state and local, land-use planning, zoning, environmental, and public health officials, as well as representatives from environmental groups. The three workshops will be held in Chicago, sponsored by the American Planning Association; New York, sponsored by the Albany Law School; and San Francisco, sponsored by the Hastings College of Law.
The workshops will be overseen by members of the Academy’s Standing Panel on Social Equity which has conducted, since 2001, three ground-breaking studies on environmental justice that examine how EPA, state, and local agencies incorporate environmental justice into their basic agency functions. The studies show some encouraging progress at all three levels of government; but also they identify two consistent and recurring problems: (1) the failure to integrate fully environmental justice considerations into core agency programs, and (2) the lack of performance measures or accountability mechanisms for agency managers to incorporate environmental justice concerns into their programs.
Overcoming these problems will require federal, state, and local agencies to launch efforts to engage local residents effectively in planning, implementing, and evaluating agency actions that will prevent or correct threats to public health and the environment, especially in low-income and people-of-color neighborhoods.
Academy Programs
Scott Belcher
Ongoing
The Academy has appointed the following individuals to
a Panel to oversee and direct the workshops. The public may
send comments on the composition of the panel for a period
of seven (7) days after the posted date to mhertko@napawash.org
Philip J. Rutledge—Panel Chair, Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Teodoro J. Benavides, Executive in Residence and Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
David Mora, City Manager, Salinas, California
James Murley, Director, Cantanese Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions, Florida Atlantic University
Sylvester Murray, Professor of Public Administration, Cleveland State University
Workshop 1: November 30, 2005 (Chicago, IL)
Workshop 2: December 8, 2005 (Albany, NY)
Workshop 3: January 11, 2006 (San Francisco, CA)
For information on conferences, please contact please contact Patricia Salkin, psalk@mail.als.edu or Barbara Mabel, bmabe@mail.als.edu at the Government Law Center of Albany Law School.
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