Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Faculty
Michael Greenberg

Michael R. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty Director, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment
B.A., Hunter College; M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 536

Phone (732) 932 4101 x673

Fax (732) 932 0934

E-mail mrg@rci.rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

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

 

Undergraduate Courses

 

Graduate Courses

Greenberg Family

 

Profile

Michael R. Greenberg studies environmental health and neighborhood redevelopment polices. He is professor and director of the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment of 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), and the Reporter’s Environmental Handbook (2003). Professor Greenberg has contributed more than 500 publications to more than 100 science, social science and policy journals. He has been a member of National Research Council Committees that focus on waste management, such as the destruction of the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and nuclear weapons. 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 social science area editor for Risk Analysis.

 

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