Sustaining Michigan: Metropolitan Policies and Strategies
Creating sustainable metropolitan communities in the twenty-first century will pose great challenges for Michigan and other states in the region. Sustaining Michigan links critical, cutting-edge scholarship to pressing issues facing Michigan's metropolitan communities and increases understanding of the key economic, environmental, social, and political reasons for why change is underway, the challenges to the current system, and the difficulty for Michigan in making substantive changes.
     Key metropolitan policies and strategies are organized around sustainability principles of the triple bottom line: economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, and social good.
     Remarkable in the breadth of its collaboration, this volume includes a range of academics from across the state who are evaluating existing policies that will define Michigan's future. The well being of our state may very well depend on the critical knowledge and understanding of the complex issues addressed in this volume to affect both the current and next generation of decision makers.

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Sustaining Michigan: Metropolitan Policies and Strategies
Creating sustainable metropolitan communities in the twenty-first century will pose great challenges for Michigan and other states in the region. Sustaining Michigan links critical, cutting-edge scholarship to pressing issues facing Michigan's metropolitan communities and increases understanding of the key economic, environmental, social, and political reasons for why change is underway, the challenges to the current system, and the difficulty for Michigan in making substantive changes.
     Key metropolitan policies and strategies are organized around sustainability principles of the triple bottom line: economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, and social good.
     Remarkable in the breadth of its collaboration, this volume includes a range of academics from across the state who are evaluating existing policies that will define Michigan's future. The well being of our state may very well depend on the critical knowledge and understanding of the complex issues addressed in this volume to affect both the current and next generation of decision makers.

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Creating sustainable metropolitan communities in the twenty-first century will pose great challenges for Michigan and other states in the region. Sustaining Michigan links critical, cutting-edge scholarship to pressing issues facing Michigan's metropolitan communities and increases understanding of the key economic, environmental, social, and political reasons for why change is underway, the challenges to the current system, and the difficulty for Michigan in making substantive changes.
     Key metropolitan policies and strategies are organized around sustainability principles of the triple bottom line: economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, and social good.
     Remarkable in the breadth of its collaboration, this volume includes a range of academics from across the state who are evaluating existing policies that will define Michigan's future. The well being of our state may very well depend on the critical knowledge and understanding of the complex issues addressed in this volume to affect both the current and next generation of decision makers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780870138508
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 05/18/2009
Pages: 335
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Richard W. Jelier is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley Sate University.



Gary Sands is an Associate Professor at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword Soji Adelaja ix

Introduction. Metropolitan Affairs and the Triple Bottom Line in Michigan Richard W. Jelier Gary Sands 1

Part 1 Economic and Fiscal Perspectives

Chapter 1 The Economic and Fiscal Background of Metropolitan Policies in Michigan Charles L. Ballard 17

Chapter 2 Michigan's Industrial Tax Abatements: Pyrrhic Victories? Gary Sands Laura A. Reese 45

Chapter 3 Abating Taxes, Abetting Sprawl: The Geographical Distribution of Tax Abatements in Michigan Angela Lazarean Katharine Trudeau 63

Chapter 4 Equity and Politics in Road-Spending Allocation in Michigan: Implications for Metropolitan Affairs Soji Adelaja Annalie Campos Yohannes G. Hailu 85

Chapter 5 Coming Together in Tough Economic Times: Workforce Development and Economic Development Move Closer in Michigan Elsie Harper-Anderson 111

Part 2 Environmental Concerns

Chapter 6 Flushing the Conflict: Wastewater Cooperation among Michigan's Local Governments? Eric S. Zeemering 135

Chapter 7 Best Practices in Protecting Green Infrastructure: Benchmarking County Park Systems Betty Gajewski 159

Chapter 8 The Impact of Policy Change in Local and State Environmental Policy: Brownfield Redevelopment in Michigan Richard Hula 183

Part 3 Social/Political Dynamics

Chapter 9 Explaining Horizontal and Vertical Cooperation in Michigan Jered B. Carr Elisabeth R. Gerber Eric W. Lupher 207

Chapter 10 Regional Housing Policy: Can Crisis Spawn Collaboration? Dale E. Thomson 237

Chapter 11 Michigan's Urban Policies in an Era of Land Use Reform and Creative-Class Cities June Manning Thomas 261

Chapter 12 The Brain Drain Wars: Characteristics of RecentMovers into and out of Michigan M. Curtis Hoffman Jeremy Pyne 281

Part 4 Towards a Triple Bottom Line

Chapter 13 Building a Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Model in Michigan Norman Christopher Richard W. Jelier 309

List of Contributors 331

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