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The Pacific Institute announces the release of a new working paper,
"Brownfields Redevelopment: Meeting the Challenges of Community
Participation" (2000), www.pacinst.org/brownfld.pdf. An abstract for the
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Wil Burns, Director of Communications/Research Associate
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
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Brownfields Redevelopment: Meeting the Challenges of Community
Participation, Working Paper 2000-3, Pacific Institute for Studies in
Development, Environment, and Security (2000).

Arlene Wong & Lisa Owens-Viani.
www.pacinst.org/brownfld.pdf

Brownfield redevelopment offers one strategy for communities to become
involved in developing or contributing to their own vision of community
sustainability and health. While much attention has been paid to
developing incentives and policies to promote brownfields redevelopment,
most efforts have focused on reducing the legal and financial barriers to
building public-private partnerships to redevelop properties. Community
involvement is often touted as important, but there is little attention to
how this might be achieved, and meaningful and effective community
partnerships continue to be lacking in many plans. The Pacific Institute
designed this one-year project to support this work and, in particular, to
assist brownfields stakeholders in promoting community engagement in this
process. The product is a community resource book, focusing on ways in
which communities can participate in the brownfield redevelopment process.

The guide:
* presents principles of effective community participation;
* identifies and describes points for community involvement in the
redevelopment process;
* assesses the current requirements and procedures for community
participation in regulatory and other brownfields institutions;
* provides examples of effective community-government-private partnerships
in six case studies;
* summarizes lessons learned and makes policy recommendations for
promoting effective community participation.


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