Effects of Environmental Hazards and Regulation on Urban Redevelopment

摘要

This report, jointly sponsored by HUD and EPA, provides insight into some of themost basic issues confronting brownfields policy: the relative important of environmental risk versus neighborhood economic distress as deterrents to the neighborhood redevelopment. The report address the significance of: (1) site contamination as a deterrent to brownfield redevelopment, as compared to other factors retarding reuse; (2) which environmental development cost of uncertainty most deters investment in redevelopment; and (3) which types of State brownfield clean up policies and programs are likely to be conducive to investment and redevelopment.