by Bunyan Bryant (Author)
The goal of Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? is to free us from an economic growth and development paradigm that threatens our social and physical well-being. While we accumulate wealth, we also accumulate harmful pollution and environmental waste. The challenge is to implement a new economic growth and development paradigm that is more environmentally benign and socially responsible and economically productive.
Author Biography
Bunyan Bryant and Elaine Hockman are professors at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment. For the last twenty years they have taught courses on environmental justice and have written articles published in several books. Presently Hockman is the research director of the Environmental Justice Initiative. The Initiative's mission is research, retrieval dissemination conferences, and policy briefings. Bryant is the director of the Initiative and has been the recipient of many awards namely: The Damu Smith Power of One Environmental Justice Award, the Dream Keeper Award for his tireless work to enhance diversity, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Justice Award for outstanding service as a charter member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and the William D. Milliken Distinguished Service Award, the state of Michigan highest environmental award.
Author Residence: Ann Arbor, Flint and Detroit, Michigan.