THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project: A Community-Based Participatory Research Environmental Justice Case Study
THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project: A Community-Based Participatory Research Environmental Justice Case Study
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DOI：
10.1089/env.2012.0016
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
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2
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Minkler, Meredith
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作者：
Garcia, Analilia P.;Wallerstein, Nina;Minkler, Meredith
几十年来，加州的货物运输（进口货物的运输）对居住在海港、铁路站场和连接公路附近的低收入和少数民族居民产生了不利影响。虽然加州空气资源委员会估计，该州的货物运输每年造成约2,400人过早死亡，但这一部门的影响直到2000年后才得到广泛认识。2001年，几个关键事件引起了人们对美国两个最大港口-洛杉矶港和长滩港-的影响的注意，并使它们开始走上减少排放的道路。基于多方法的案例分析，本文描述了非正式的协作工作，最终在THE（贸易、卫生、环境）影响项目（“影响项目”），南加州大学（南加州大学），西方学院，和四个社区倡导团体，以解决空气污染和其他与通过大型洛杉矶和长滩港口综合体的货物运输相关的健康影响。在概述了我们的案例研究方法之后，我们描述了过去十年中数据和社区组织的协作及其使用，以促进政策变革。然后，我们讨论了几个结果的影响项目作出了贡献，其中的关键通过的圣佩德罗湾港口清洁空气行动计划在2006年，在官方港口和运输文件中的健康语言的整合，并推迟了一个主要的高速公路，使健康的考虑可以更充分地融入规划和决策。还讨论了该项目在帮助扩大政策辩论和增加社区成员参与相关决策机构方面的作用。最后，我们探索的挑战，经验教训，以及这项工作对其他CBPR伙伴关系的影响。
For decades, goods movement (the transportation of imported goods) in California has had detrimental consequences for the predominantly low income and minority residents living close to the marine ports, rail yards, and connecting highways. Although the California Air Resources Board estimates that goods movement in the state is responsible for an estimated 2,400 premature deaths annually, the impacts of this sector were not widely recognized until after 2000. In 2001, several key events drew attention to impacts from the country's two largest ports, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and started them on a path to reduce emissions. Based on a multi-method case study analysis, this article describes the informal collaborative work which culminated in THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project ("THE Impact Project''), a regional community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between the University of Southern California (USC), Occidental College, and four community-based advocacy groups to address air pollution and other health impacts associated with goods movement through the massive Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports complex. Following an overview of our case study methods, we describe the collaborative and its use of both data and community organizing to promote policy change over the past decade. We then discuss several outcomes to which THE Impact Project contributed, key among them passage of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan in 2006, the integration of health language in official port and transportation documents, and the delaying of a major freeway so that health considerations could be more fully integrated into planning and decision making. The project's role in helping to broaden the policy debate and increase the inclusion of community members in relevant decision-making bodies also is discussed. We conclude with an exploration of challenges, lessons learned, and implications of this work for other CBPR partnerships.