Environmental & Social Justice Challenges Near America’s Most Popular Museums, Parks, Zoos & Other Heritage Attractions

Michael Greenberg is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. He studies environmental health and risk analysis, having written more than 35 books and more than 350 articles. Professor Greenberg was a member of National Research Council Committees that focused on the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile; management of nuclear weapons; degradation of the U.S. government physical infrastructure; and sustainability.  He served on a U.S.EPA Science Advisory Board environmental justice committee and he chaired a committee for the U.S. Senate and House Appropriations Committees examining the U.S. DOE’s prioritization of human health and safety in its environmental management programs. Professor Greenberg was area editor for social sciences and then editor-in-chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal during the period 2002-2013, and he was associate editor for environmental health for the American Journal of Public Health for 22 years.

• Part1: Context and Design.- Chapter1: Creating Attractions and Tolerating Inequity.- Chapter2: Designing a Multiple-Scale and Multiple-Metric Data Analysis.- Part 2: Case Studies.- Chapter3: America’s Forever Beautiful Heritage Attraction Sites: the U.S.’s Most Popular National Parks.- Chapter4: Remnants of the Industrial Revolution: America’s Historic Grand Concourses as Heritage Attractions.- Chapter5: Zoos as Endangered Attractions.- Chapter6: America’ Iconic Urban Parks and the Gentrification Challenge.- Chapter7: Museums, the Building of Wealth Clusters, and Soft Power.- Part 3: Looking for Other Species of Heritage Sites and Better Solutions.- Chapter8: Other Species of Heritage Sites: Commercial and Political Symbols.- Chapter9: Looking for Better Affordable Housing Solutions.- Chapter 10: Epilogue: Summary and Looking Forward.