Environmental Policy Analysis and Practice

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many family members, friends, colleagues, and students have directly and indirectly contributed to this book. I was born the South Bronx, about a -minute walk north of Yankee Stadium; we lived a rich environment. Children everywhere, innumerable professional and other athletic events, parades, and constant excitement . My parents, Sydney and Mildred Greenberg, and my uncle Sol Saletra encouraged me to “use my head,” which was shorthand for figuring out what was happening in the neighborhood and why. In school, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cohen, and Mrs. Smith, who were my teachers in the th, th, and th grades, respectively, steered me toward environmental science. Mr. Brown convinced me that roads, train lines, and other routes could be modeled with graph theory, which was immense fun. Abraham Cohen showed me that policy needs pushed scientists to work on specific projects; his favorite example was nuclear weapons. Matilda Smith arranged a National Science Foundation scholarship one summer, during which I learned how to take water quality samples. In college, history professor Lorman Ratner encouraged me to read environmental history, which I found much more interesting than political history. In graduate school at Columbia University, I was incredibly lucky to have George Carey, Leonard Zobler, Douglas McManis, Arthur Strahler, Abraham Jaffee, and William Vickrey as major professors . They threw so much information at me that for the first time in my life, I felt overwhelmed. After terrifying me, they convinced me that I should believe in myself. I thank my colleagues at Rutgers University for providing an environment that has allowed me to explore a wide range of topics. Jim Hughes, Donald Krueckeberg, Richard Brail, Bob Burchell, Briavel Holcomb, Frank Popper, David Listokin, Joe Seneca, Jerome Rose, Susan Fainstein, Salah El-Shakhs, and Dona Schneider have been my colleagues for more than  years. There was never a time when they would not sit down and discuss an environmental-related topic with me. I am grateful to my colleagues who were willing to be interviewed for this book: Arthur Upton, Daniel Wartenberg, Bernard Goldstein, Henry Mayer, Charles Powers, and Connie Hughes. I hope you enjoy reading my interviews with them. They are truly role models for anyone who is thinking about a career in an environmental-related topic. xv Four of my former graduate students played a direct role in developing the materials needed for the book. Karen Lowrie has worked on environmental management studies with me for more than a decade. Her efforts are particularly prominent in chapters  and . Josephine Faass helped me conduct the interviews of the three mayors in chapter  and got me thinking about natural resource damages (chapter ). Justin Hollander worked with me on brownfield and Superfundrelated issues reflected in chapters  and . Elizabeth Nash compiled much of the background material used in chapters  and . I thank the New Jersey League of Municipalities and, in particular, director Bill Dressel for allowing me to use portions of “Building Brownfield Coalitions: The Perspectives of Three New Jersey Mayors” (New Jersey Municipalities, January , –) in chapter . Similarly, I thank John Wiley and Sons, Inc. for permitting me to use part of a table in a paper I wrote that was published in Remediation, Winter , pages – (“End state land uses, sustainable protective systems, and risk management: A challenge for remediation and multigenerational stewardship”). I’d like to thank former New Jersey governors Richard Hughes, Brendan Byrne, Thomas Kean, James Florio, Christine Todd Whitman, Donald DiFrancesco, and Jim McGreevey and Senator Bill Bradley for challenging me with some tough policy issues. I end by acknowledging students who eventually provoked me into writing this book by insisting that I needed to make the time to spell out and illustrate the six criteria in writing, not just verbally. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvi Environmental Policy Analysis and Practice ...