Use of a Community-University Partnership to Eliminate Environmental Stressors

项目摘要 在南卡罗来纳州的北查尔斯顿，缺乏了解累积影响的研究 空气、水和土壤污染的来源，包括历史上的工业活动、当地的运营 焚化炉、几个超级基金地点和繁忙的高速公路对总体暴露负担造成了 这些经济上的弱势群体。有限的监测和基于社区的监测 发生以了解当地人口暴露在污染中的时空变化 从该地区无数的工业、点源和非点源中释放，以及这一累积 暴露影响了环境质量、社区健康、生活质量和邻里活力 可持续发展。如果没有面向行动的社区驱动的研究和倡导努力，有效的进展将 在减少暴露和防止污染方面不做任何事情。我们的长期目标是利用一个社区- 低地国家示范社区联盟(LAMC)与加州大学之间的大学伙伴关系 南卡罗来纳州(USC)，基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)框架，以及协作- 解决环境不公平、公共健康和振兴的问题解决模式(CPSM)原则 南卡罗来纳州北查尔斯顿的问题为实现这一长远目标，我们提出了以下具体目标：1) 评估南卡罗来纳州北查尔斯顿污染源的地理分布，2)具体目标2：量化 经济上工业和非点源污染源附近的PM和重金属水平 南卡罗来纳州北查尔斯顿的弱势社区3)增加了社区容量，以减少 通过以社区为基础的外联、教育和 训练。该项目具有新颖性和重要意义，因为它将研究污染对 首次在查尔斯顿地区对最大暴露人群的环境和健康进行了评估。该项目 创新是因为我们将采用CBPR框架和CPSM原则来：1)教育受影响的人 居民对当地污染源的了解，2)收集社区接触PM和重金属的证据 来自当地污染源的排放，3)建立社区对科学研究的信心，4)赋权 居民获得环境正义，并推动当地环境卫生政策的变化。调查结果 将具有重要意义，因为它们将对污染预防、风险 针对经济困难群体的减排活动和战略以及环境卫生政策 查尔斯顿地区负担过重的社区。

Project Summary In North Charleston, South Carolina, a paucity of research has occurred to understand the cumulative impact of sources of air, water, and soil pollution including historic industrial activities, operation of the local incinerator, several Superfund sites, and heavily-trafficked highways have on the overall exposure burden on these economically disadvantaged communities. Limited monitoring and community-based surveillance has occurred to understand the spatial and temporal variation of the exposure of local populations to pollution released from the myriad industrial, point, and non-point sources in the region and how this cumulative exposure has affected environmental quality, community health, quality of life, and neighborhood vitality and sustainability. Without action-oriented community-driven research and advocacy efforts, effective progress will not be made in reducing exposure and preventing pollution. Our long-term goal is to use a community- university partnership between the Low-Country Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC) and the University of South Carolina (USC), the community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework, and collaborative- problem solving model (CPSM) principles to address environmental injustice, public health, and revitalization issues in North Charleston, SC. To achieve this long-term goal, we propose the following specific aims: 1) Assess the geographic distribution of pollution sources in North Charleston, SC, 2) Specific Aim #2: Quantify levels of PM and heavy metals near industrial and non-point sources of pollution in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Charleston, SC, and 3) Increase community capacity to reduce exposure, prevent pollution, and improve public health through community-based outreach, education, and training. The project is novel and significant because it will study the cumulative impacts of pollution on the environment and health of maximally exposed populations in the Charleston area for the first time. The project is innovative because we will employ the CBPR framework and CPSM principles to: 1) educate impacted residents about local pollution sources, 2) collect evidence on community exposure to PM and heavy metals emitted from local pollution sources, 3) build community confidence in scientific research, and 4) empower residents to obtain environmental justice and drive changes in local environmental health policy. The findings will have significance because they will have important implications for pollution prevention, risk reduction activities and strategies, and environmental health policy for economically disadvantaged and overburdened communities in the in the Charleston area.