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Although Bunyan Bryant's
major faculty appointment is in the School of Natural Resources
and Environment, he is a member of the Urban Technological and
Environmental Planning Program, and has an adjunct position with
the Center of Afro-American and African Studies. In 1973 Dr. Bryant
did post-doctoral work at the University of Manchester in England
in Town and Country Planning. His current research interests include
developing case studies on corporate, agency, and community responses
to hazardous waste sites. He was co-principal investigator of
the University of Michigan 1990 Detroit Area Study on Race and
Toxic Waste. A more recent study undertaken with Dr. Elaine Hockman
is to determine the proximity of hazardous waste facilities to
schools and their impact upon academic achievement. Professor
Bryant has written a book called Environmental Advocacy: Concepts,
Issues and Dilemmas, and a manual called: Social and Environmental
Change: A Manual for Community Organizing and Action. He and Professor
Paul Mohai have edited a book called: Race and the Incidence of
Environmental Hazards: A time for Discourse. Boulder: Westview
Press, 1992 and he has edited a book called: Environmental Justice:
Issues, Polices, and Solutions. Island Press, 1995. He is co-organizer
of the University of Michigan 1990 Conference on Race and the
Incidence of Environmental Hazards, a conference that has had
considerable national impact. This conference led to a series
of high level policy meetings with EPA Administrator William K.
Reilly under President Bush's administration and later EPA Administrator
Carol Browner. From these meetings came a commitment from EPA
to address environmental justice issues and an EPA Office on Environmental
Justice. For three years in the early 1990s, he was a co-facilitator
of the Martin Luther King Planning Committee at the University
of Michigan, where workshops on Environmental Justice were an
integral part of celebrating Martin Luther King's legacy. In 1991,
he was on the Advisory Committee of the First National People
of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. In 1994-95, he was a
member of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental
Justice Advisory Council. And in 1994 he was co-facilitator of
the Symposium for Health Research and Needs to Ensure
Environmental Justice, an event sponsored by major
federal agencies, where over a thousand grassroots activists,
government personnel and scientists and people from the academic
community participated. Dr. Bryant was a part of a movement that
was responsible for President Clinton's signing of the Environmental
Justice Executive Order 12898--an order that is having a major
impact on federal agencies and communities throughout the country.
In addition to teaching courses, Dr. Bryant has been a consultant
to a number of nonprofit environmental organizations across the
country. In addition to writing and consulting with government,
Dr. Bryant has lectured on environmental justice at a number of
universities across the country. |
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