About these resources
eBooks
Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US
Edited by Claudia S.P. Fernandez and Giselle Corbie-Smith. Chapter 16, Beautiful Ruin: Creating Healthfields, was written by ATSDR's Nation Brownfields Coordinator Laurel Berman through her participation in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders Program (2016-2019). The chapter focuses on Navajo Nation Healthfields activities using ATSDR's 5-step Land Reuse Strategy to Safely Reuse Land and Improve Health (5-step Land Reuse Model) and describes some of ATSDR's Healthfields projects and related tools and resources for communities to create their own Healthfields practice.
Land Reuse and Redevelopment: Creating Healthy Communities
Land Reuse and Redevelopment: Creating Healthy Communities is a free textbook and community resource providing guidance on reusing land safely. Each section of the book is written by land reuse stakeholders highlighting how ATSDR's 5-step Land Reuse Strategy is implemented in best practices. It also highlights how safe land reuse can contribute to community resilience, partnerships, and sustainability.
Brownfields & Reuse Opportunity Working Network (BROWN)
The ATSDR Brownfields & Reuse Opportunity Working Network (BROWN) is a coalition of stakeholders with a wide range of expertise in redevelopment. These ATSDR partners help our National Brownfields/Land Reuse Health Initiative reach out to more communities to integrate health in redevelopment
Taking Action: Rebuilding Joplin after the Tornado
Using the ATSDR Brownfields / Land Revitalization Action Model Green Complete Streets in the 20th Street Corridor Joplin, MO / January, 2014 The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Brownfields/ Land Revitalization Action Model is a framework for community revitalization projects. The Joplin 20th Street Corridor Action Model characterizes existing conditions and highlights community revitalization efforts in the corridor, especially as those conditions relate to human health.
Reclaiming Brownfields: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Reuse of Contaminated Properties (2012)
Edited by Richard C. Hula, Laura A. Reese and Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore. Chapter 12,From Blighted Brownfields to Healthy and Sustainable Communities: Tracking Performance and Measuring Outcomeswas written by ATSDR's National Brownfields Coordinator Laurel Berman and Christopher A. DeSousa, Terri Linder, and David Misky, all of whom were partners on a community health and brownfields project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapter examines issues and efforts aimed at linking brownfields redevelopment to public health and sustainability via benchmarking and indicator reporting.
Leading Change for Healthy Communities and Successful Land Reuse (Nov 2010)
Leading Change for Healthy Communities and Successful Land Reuse is a series of case studies or "success stories" showing redevelopment to achieve a variety of health-related goals: recreation/greenspace; quality, affordable housing; access to health care, community policing, and other services; education; revitalization of tribal lands; and new jobs and economic development to benefit the community. Each case study tells a story of how community health was successfully integrated into brownfields redevelopment and land reuse, highlighting key elements such as leadership, financing and other resources tapped, stakeholder involvement, actions taken, measures of success, and lessons learned.
Journal Articles
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) highlights a series of three manuscripts that describe the development and delivery of the Environmental Health and Land Reuse (EHLR) Basic Training and the first pilot of the EHLR Immersion Training. The series is titled, Development, Evaluation, and Long-Term Outcomes of Environmental Health and Land Reuse Training. The first manuscript describes a collaboration with NEHA to develop the EHLR Basic Training in two modalities: virtual/live (maintained by ATSDR) and online/asynchronous (maintained by NEHA) as well as the first pilot of the Immersion Training. The second and third manuscripts present results of the evaluation and long-term follow-up of the EHLR Training. ATSDR will post links to these manuscripts after their publication.
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) published a series of three manuscripts about brownfields redevelopment as a subset of overall land use and reuse practices in Europe and the United States. The first article presented the European landscape of brownfields redevelopment through policy and funding frameworks. The second article examined brownfields redevelopment in the U.S. through regulatory, public health, and sustainability lenses. The third article is a comparative analysis of brownfields in the U.S. and Romania.
ATSDR Land Reuse Screening Tool Cohorts: Creating Land Reuse Site Inventories,
An Indicator Framework to Measure Effects of Brownfields Redevelopment on Public Health
Brownfields/Land Reuse Site Tool
Improving Community Health: Brownfields and Health Monitoring
Reports
Community Health Monitoring: Baraboo Ringling Riverfront Development (Aug 2010)
The Baraboo Brownfields/Land Revitalization Action Model incorporated health monitoring goals and was used to focus on community issues and associated health outcomes that can be tracked over time to indicate changes in community health status. This report documents the results of the current community health conditions in the Baraboo Ringling Riverfront Redevelopment project area through 33 different baseline measurement indicators. The City of Baraboo intends to create a 'living' document from this report so that community members can have access to project outcomes at all times through print versions provided to the local library and a report to be maintained on the City's Web site. Both ATSDR and the City of Baraboo hope this report will also serve as a model for other communities undergoing revitalization.
This report documents current conditions in the 30th Street Corridor in 2008 through a series of baseline measures. The information in this report assisted the Corridor Development Community to make redevelopment decisions and may be revisited in future years to quantify the different ways that redevelopment activities might have contributed to changes in the health and quality of life among 30th Street Corridor residents. ATSDR and our Milwaukee partners hope this report will serve as a model for other communities undergoing redevelopment.