Community-engaged environmental monitoring for biowaste treatment transitions

社区参与生物废物处理过渡的环境监测

• 批准号: 10795523
• 负责人: Seung-Hyun Cho
• 金额: $ 41.79万
• 依托单位: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-19 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10795523
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Agriculture; Air; Animal Feed; Animals; Assessment tool; Biological; Black, Indigenous, People of Color; Characteristics; Chemicals; Collaborations; Communities; Community Actions; Community Health; County; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Disparity population; Ecological momentary assessment; Environment; Environment and Public Health; Environmental Health; Environmental Impact; Environmental Monitoring; Event; Family suidae; Farm; Federally Qualified Health Center; Follow-Up Studies; Future; Gases; Goals; Government; Health; Health Benefit; Health Diary; Health Status; Industrialization; Industry; Knowledge; Low income; Measurement; Methods; Minority Groups; Monitor; North Carolina; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Phase; Policy Maker; Politics; Privatization; Process; Production; Public Health; Quality of life; Records; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resolution; Resources; Sampling; Surveys; Symptoms; Time; Trainers Training; Trust; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; Water; agricultural community; built environment; community based participatory research; community involvement; community partnership; cost; data sharing; data tools; design; drinking water; empowerment; fine particles; health assessment; health record; improved; member; operation; programs; public health priorities; renewable energy; sensor; tool; wasting; water quality; water testing; well water

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The communities in Sampson and Duplin Counties, in North Carolina, who are largely Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), have had their environmental quality disproportionately affected by long-existing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). A new initiative of large-scale pork industry to produce renewable energy from animal waste at CAFOs has been well-supported by North Carolina government and is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Although the affected communities are concerned about the additional adverse impact of new swine waste-to-energy (SWE) operations, little data exist to provide any knowledge on the environmental health impact of SWE operations. The Sampson and Duplin communities have identified a time-sensitive need to systematically assess their current environment and public health status before the AlignRNG SWE project becomes fully operational. Our study goal is to address the communities’ needs for baseline data with an assessment of the environmental and public health landscape of the Sampson and Duplin Counties communities prior to widespread SWE transitions. We will conduct a comprehensive longitudinal environmental health monitoring (i.e., air, water, and health) with a community participatory research approach, leveraging existing resources, and through a partnership with a trusted community action group from other RTI-leading/collaborating studies in the same community. We will refine and improve technical approaches that previous studies, including ours, have developed and apply to this unique environmental challenge for understudied, disadvantaged population. Those approaches include co-production of study with active involvement from community members to identify and develop processes that meet their needs, low-cost sensor network to collect high-resolution longitudinal air quality data, longitudinal data of private well water quality and health and quality of life, and low-burden ecological momentary assessment tool. This study will provide all stakeholders (i.e., the study community, agriculture industry, researchers, state officials, and policy makers) a comprehensive baseline analysis of exposure and health status in this under-assessed community facing SWE transition. The study community and RTI researchers will co-produce data collection and summary methods that will also be used in future assessment phases to understand the SWE transition affects. The study findings, data, and processes from this study will be shared with other community groups that have similar needs but few resources for assessments and guidance to address their environmental health challenges and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ NC Environmental Public Health Tracking Program for broader dissemination.

项目总结/摘要 在北卡罗来纳州的桑普森县和杜普林县，大部分是黑人， 土著人和有色人种（BIPOC）的环境质量受到不成比例的影响 长期存在的集中动物饲养业务（CAFO）。规模化猪肉新举措 在CAFOs从动物粪便中生产可再生能源的行业得到了北方的大力支持。 卡罗莱纳州政府，预计将在未来几年显着增长。虽然受影响的 社区担心新的猪废物能源（SWE）的额外不利影响 由于这些操作，几乎没有数据可以提供关于SWE操作对环境健康影响的任何知识。 桑普森和杜普林社区已经确定了一个时间敏感的需要，系统地评估其 AlignRNG SWE项目全面投入运营前的当前环境和公共卫生状况。 我们的研究目标是解决社区对基线数据的需求， 桑普森和杜普林县社区的环境和公共卫生景观之前， 广泛的SWE转换。我们将进行一次全面的纵向环境卫生监测 (i.e.,空气、水和健康），采用社区参与式研究方法，利用现有资源， 并通过与其他RTI领导/合作的值得信赖的社区行动小组建立伙伴关系， 在同一个社区学习。我们将完善和改进以前研究的技术方法， 包括我们的，已经开发并应用于这种独特的环境挑战， 弱势群体。这些办法包括在非政府组织的积极参与下共同编写研究报告， 社区成员识别和开发满足其需求的流程，低成本传感器网络， 收集高分辨率纵向空气质量数据、私人井水质量和健康纵向数据 和生活质量，以及低负担的生态瞬时评估工具。这项研究将提供所有 利益相关者（即，研究界、农业界、研究人员、州政府官员和政策制定者） 在这个被低估的社区， SWE转换。研究社区和RTI研究人员将共同制作数据收集和总结 这些方法也将用于未来的评估阶段，以了解SWE过渡的影响。的 本研究的研究结果、数据和过程将与其他社区团体分享， 类似的需求，但用于评估和指导以解决其环境健康问题的资源很少 挑战和北卡罗来纳州卫生与公众服务部的NC环境公共卫生 跟踪方案，以便更广泛地传播。