Robert W. Collin is a legal scholar, planner, and environmental justice expert whose work spans more than four decades at the intersection of environmental law, land use, urban planning, social equity, and public policy. His scholarship and public service predate—and helped shape—the emergence of environmental justice, sustainability, and climate adaptation as formal fields of inquiry. Beginning in the 1980s, Collin published foundational work on homelessness, land-use regulation, municipal finance, and social planning accountability, followed in the early 1990s by some of the earliest law review articles integrating environmental racism, environmental equity, and land-use decision-making into a unified legal and planning framework. His 1992 article in the University of Virginia Enviro...
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