Standard Grant: Mobilized Social Group Organizations Around Per- and Polyfluoralkyl Substances

标准补助金：围绕全氟烷基物质和多氟烷基物质动员社会团体组织

• 批准号: 1827817
• 负责人: Phil Brown
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827817&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Standard; Grant; Mobilized; Social; Group

The proposed project will examine the rapid formation of a national, networked social movement across the United States in response to industrial and military uses of per- and polyfluorinated compounds (PFASs), a class of over 3,000 chemical compounds with a broad range of adverse health outcomes. The project will examine the factors facilitating the rapid development of this movement, and the ways in which it shapes science, chemical policy, and cleanup levels. This project will provide residents and community groups affected by PFAS contamination with a greater awareness of how they can partake in the scientific process, public education, and environmental policy at local, state and federal levels. It will create greater connections among dispersed communities, and among regulators and scientists working on these issues. The project has a water testing component that will provide direct knowledge and interpretation of the extent of PFAS contamination in an impacted community, and that will be used to show how effective widely adopted remedial methods are at removing these contaminants. The research team will analyze the characteristics of local organizing using its Contamination Site Database, which has extensive data for 77 contaminated sites across the U.S.; new sites are to be added as they are discovered. The team will quantitatively and qualitatively assess what factors influence whether local social-movement organizations develop at a given contamination site (such as contamination characteristics, nature of media coverage, and demographics), as well as the outcomes that are achieved (such as remediation, shift in regulatory or advisory standards, and biomonitoring activities). The team will also analyze the origins, influences, priorities, and outcomes of activism by these social movement organizations by conducting 80-100 semi-structured interviews in 20-30 locations across the U.S. Team members will also use network analysis techniques on interview data and social media posts to explain and visualize how activists share information, join and expand old networks, and create new ones.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

拟议的项目将研究在美国迅速形成一个全国性的网络化社会运动，以应对全氟化合物和多氟化合物（PFAS）的工业和军事用途，PFAS是一类超过3,000种具有广泛不良健康后果的化合物。该项目将研究促进这一运动快速发展的因素，以及它塑造科学，化学政策和清理水平的方式。该项目将使受PFAS污染影响的居民和社区团体更好地了解他们如何参与地方、州和联邦各级的科学进程、公共教育和环境政策。它将在分散的社区之间以及在致力于这些问题的监管机构和科学家之间建立更大的联系。该项目有一个水测试部分，将提供直接的知识和解释PFAS污染的程度在受影响的社区，这将被用来显示如何有效地广泛采用的补救方法是在消除这些污染物。该研究小组将利用其污染场地数据库分析当地组织的特点，该数据库拥有美国77个污染场地的广泛数据;新的地点将在发现时添加。该小组将定量和定性评估哪些因素影响当地社会运动组织在特定污染地点的发展（如污染特征，媒体报道的性质和人口统计学），以及所取得的成果（如补救措施，监管或咨询标准的转变，以及生物监测活动）。该团队还将通过在美国20-30个地点进行80-100次半结构化访谈，分析这些社会运动组织的起源，影响，优先事项和行动结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Producing Ignorance Through Regulatory Structure: The Case of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

通过监管结构制造无知：全氟烷基物质和多氟烷基物质 (PFAS) 的案例

• DOI: 10.1177/0731121420964827
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Sociological Perspectives
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Richter, Lauren;Cordner, Alissa;Brown, Phil
• 通讯作者: Brown, Phil

Improving governance of “forever chemicals” in the US and beyond

改善美国及其他地区“永久化学品”的治理

• DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.10.003
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: One Earth
• 影响因子: 16.2
• 作者: Garrett, Kimberly K.;Brown, Phil;Varshavsky, Julia;Cordner, Alissa
• 通讯作者: Cordner, Alissa

Environmental chemicals and public sociology: engaged scholarship on highly fluorinated compounds

• DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2019.1629271
• 发表时间: 2019-06-23
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Cordner, Alissa;Richter, Lauren;Brown, Phil
• 通讯作者: Brown, Phil

Guideline levels for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water: the role of scientific uncertainty, risk assessment decisions, and social factors

• DOI: 10.1038/s41370-018-0099-9
• 发表时间: 2019-03-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF EXPOSURE SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 4.5
• 作者: Cordner, Alissa;De la Rosa, Vanessa Y.;Brown, Phil
• 通讯作者: Brown, Phil