BSGRG Practice Guides and Publications

Publications | Working Papers

Working Papers: (PDF format)

• Brownfield Redevelopers' Perceptions of Environmental Insurance: An Appraisal and Review of Public Policy Options

• Approaches to Brownfield Regeneration: The Relative Value of Financial Incentives, Relaxed Mitigation Standards and Regulatory Certainty

• Applying Common Property Frameworks to Urban Environmental Quality: The Case of Brownfields  

• Looking at State Voluntary Cleanup Programs in Perspective: Liability Relief, Flexible Cleanup Standards and Institutional Controls as Forms of Economic Development Subsidies

• Accounting for Differential Neighborhood Economic Development Impacts in Site–Specific or Area–Based Approaches to Urban Brownfield Regeneration

• Accounting For Stigma On Contaminated Lands

• Small Borrowers and Big Financiers: The Urban Redevelopment Conundrum

• Brownfields and the Urban Commons: Common Property Frameworks in Urban Environmental Quality

• Pennsylvania Copes with its Past: One State’s Efforts to Redevelop Urban Brownfields and Clean Up Contaminated Lands

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Publications

The members of the Brownfields Working Group have contributed extensively to the literature on brownfields reclamation issues, including the following articles, books, chapters, and reports to sponsors:

2000

• Meyer, P.B. 2000. An Assessment of State Brownfield Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.
• Meyer, P.B. 2000. Accounting for Stigma on Contaminated Lands—The Potential Contributions of Environmental Insurance Coverages. Environmental Claims Journal XII(3): 33–55.
• Meyer, P.B., and T.S. Lyons. 2000. Lessons from Private Sector Brownfield Redevelopers: Planning Public Support for Urban Regeneration. Journal of the American Planning Association LXVI:(1): 46–57.
• Meyer, P.B., and H.W. VanLandingham, 2000. Reclamation and Economic Regeneration of Brownfields. Reviews of Economic Development Research and Practice No. 1. Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration.
• Yount, K.R. 2000. Environmental Insurance Products Available for Brownfields Redevelopment. 1999. Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Outreach and Special Projects Staff.  

1999

• Meyer, P.B. 1999. Appraisers and Contaminated Lands: Valuation and Capital Availability. Pp. 21–28 in C. Bartsch, ed., Financing Brownfield Reuse. Washington, DC: Northeast–Midwest Institute.
• Yount, K.R, and P.B. Meyer. 1999. Factors Affecting Investments in Small– and Large–Scale Brownfield Projects. Urban Ecology III(4): 351–365.
• Meyer, P.B., and K.R. Yount. 1999. Factors Affecting Municipal Pursuit of Environmental Insurance as a Brownfields Redevelopment Strategy. Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Outreach and Special Projects Staff.  

1998

• Meyer, P.B. 1998. Background Note on Insurance and Brownfield Investment Decisions. Public Works Management and Policy III(2): 37–43.
• Meyer, P.B., and K.R. Chilton. 1998. Environmental Insurance for Urban Redevelopment: A Feasibility Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of HUD Office of Policy Devel. and Research.
• Walker, C., P. Boxall, C. Bartch, E. Collaton, P. Meyer and K. Yount. 1998. The Impact of Environmental Hazards and Regulations on Urban Redevelopment. Washington, DC: US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.  

1997

• Meyer, P.B., and C.W. Reaves. 1997. Brownlining Banks: The Bank Merger Movement and Urban Redevelopment. Journal of Economic Issues XXXI(2): 393–400.
• Yount, K.R. 1997. The Organizational Contexts of Decisions to Invest in Environmentally Risky Urban Properties. Journal of Economic Issues XXXI(2): 367–373.
• Yount, K.R., and P.B. Meyer 1997. Financing Small-Scale Urban Redevelopment Projects: A Sourcebook for Borrowers Reusing Environmentally Suspect Sites. Final Report fromThe E.P. Systems Group, Inc., to the Urban and Economic Development Division, US EPA.  

1996

• Yount, K.R., and R.H. Williams. 1996. Reclamation, Redevelopment and Reuse of Potentially Polluted Land: Comparing Approaches in the United States and European Union. Sustain: A Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Issues I(1): 30–36.  

1995

• Meyer, P.B. 1995. Community Responses to Past Environmental Depredations: Processes in Allocation of Social and Individual Responsibility. Pp. 234–244 in Proceedings of the 11th. Annual Conference on the Small City and Regional Community. Stevens Point, WI: Foundation Press.
• Meyer, P.B., R.H. Williams, and K.R. Yount. 1995. Contaminated Land: Reclamation, Redevelopment and Re-Use in the United States and the European Union. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers.  

1994

• Williams, R.H., P.B. Meyer, and K.R. Yount. 1994. Contaminated Land: Can the US Experience Offer a Model for EU Policy Development? Pp. 52–54 in The Proceedings of the Fourth Annual European Environment Conference, Nottingham, UK: European Environment Association.
• Yount, K.R., and P.B. Meyer. 1994. Bankers, Developers and New Investment in Brownfield Sites: Environmental Concerns and the Social Psychology of Risk. Economic Development Quarterly VIII(4): 338–344.