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Michael Greenberg

Michael R. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty
Director, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment; Director, Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk


B.A., Hunter College; M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia (Geography)

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 536

Phone (848) 932-2383

Fax (732) 932-0934

E-mail mrg@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Urban neighborhood redevelopment
  • Cleaning up contaminated sites
  • Environmental Health Policy
  • Risk analysis

 

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Graduate Courses

Greenberg Family

 

Profile

Michael R. Greenberg studies environmental health. He is professor and director of the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment of Rutgers University; director of the U.S. DHS-funded Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk at Rutgers University; and associate dean of the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. His books include Urbanization and Cancer Mortality (1983), Hazardous Waste Sites: the Credibility Gap (1984), Public Health and the Environment (1987), Environmental Risk and the Press (1987), Environmentally Devastated Neighborhoods in the United States (1996), Restoring America’s Neighborhoods: What Local People Can Do (1999), the Reporter’s Environmental Handbook (2003), Environmental Policy Analysis & Practice (2008), and The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy, and Waste Management (2009) . Dr. Greenberg has written more than 20 books, more than 300 articles and 30 editorials to social science and policy journals and has in excess of 200 technical reports. He has been a member of National Research Council Committees that focus on the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and nuclear weapons; chemical waste management; and the degradation of the U.S. government physical infrastructure. He has received awards for research from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Society for Professional Journalists, the Public Health Association, the Association of American Geographers, and Society for Risk Analysis. He serves as associate editor for environmental health for the American Journal of Public Health, and is editor-in-chief of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

 

 

EJ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University, 33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1958
mrg@rci.rtugers.edu
732-932-4101 ext 673

 

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)