Sustaining Michigan
Subtitle: metropolitan policies and strategies
By: edited by Richard W. Jelier and Gary Sands.
Contributors: Jelier, Richard W.; Sands, Gary.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780870138508
Subjects: Metropolitan areas -- Economic aspects -- Michigan; Michigan -- Economic policy
Description: Synopsis: 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 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 question existing policies that will define Michigan's future. The well-being of our state, and, indeed, states throughout the nation, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Metropolitan affairs in Michigan and the triple bottom line / Richard W. Jelier and Gary Sands; title: The economic and fiscal background of metropolitan policies in Michigan / Charles Ballard; title: Michigan's industrial tax abatements : pyrrhic victories? / Gary Sands and Laura Reese; title: Abating taxes, abetting sprawl : the geographical distribution of tax abatements in Michigan / Angela Lazarean and Katharine Trudeau; title: Equity and politics in road spending allocation in Michigan : how Michigan continues to fuel sprawl / Soji Adelaja, Annalie Campos and Yohannes Hailu; title: Coming together in tough economic times : workforce development and economic development move closer in Michigan / Elsie Harper-Anderson; title: Flushing the conflict : wastewater cooperation among Michigan's local governments? / Eric S. Zeemering; title: Best practices in protecting green infrastructure : benchmarking county park systems / Betty Gajewski; title: The impact of policy change in local and state environmental policy : Brownfield redevelopment in Michigan / Richard Hula; title: Explaining horizontal and vertical cooperation in Michigan / Jered B. Carr, Elisabeth R. Gerber, and Eric Lupher; title: The housing crisis in Michigan : opportunities for regional collaboration / Dale Thompson; title: Michigan's urban policies in an era of land use reform and creative-class cities / June Manning Thomas; title: The brain drain : characteristics of recent movers into and out of Michigan / Mark Hoffman and Jeremy Pyne; title: Building a triple bottom line sustainability model in Michigan / Norman Christopher and Richard W. Jelier.