Community Engagement and Urban Agriculture: Addressing Concerns About Toxicants in Soil, Water and Plants

核心摘要/摘要 社区参与核心（CEC）促进我们的超级基金之间的双向知识交流 研究中心（SRC）和当地社区减少累积影响，改善营养和降低健康 圣地亚哥县、帝国县和美国贫困社区的差距-墨西哥边境 包括农村和部落土地。通过赋予青年权力，举办讲习班，与 社区发展进一步的研究和干预措施，发展文化上敏感的多媒体科学 交流工具，并在社区参与中建模创新的最佳实践，CEC扩展了 我们的SRC产生的科学和技术创新的影响和影响。CEC建立了 美国EPA第9区和墨西哥部分地区弱势社区的能力，以确定，优先考虑和解决 与环境暴露和超级基金有毒物质有关的环境和公共卫生问题。的 总体目标是帮助预防毒物暴露，缩小健康差距，减少NAFLD和TASH 易感性，逆转NAFLD的逐步增加，并最大限度地减少TASH的风险，特别是在 主要是西班牙裔和美洲原住民的社区。利用综合性、可持续性 科学，以地方为基础的方法与公民参与的坚定承诺，CEC将建立在我们现有的 社区与大学的合作伙伴关系。我们将在过去五年来一直在指导的地点工作， 社区参与接触预防和干预的最佳做法。我们正在共同设计这些 通过与我们的社区合作伙伴的双向互动，通过我们的主要 社区合作伙伴在圣地亚哥的全球行动研究中心。CEC将分享SRC科学， 通过参与性社区教育讲习班、培训、公民科学、青年 领导力发展和累积影响风险沟通。我们的方法植根于可持续的城市 农业实践（社区菜园和粮食林）和安装绿色基础设施（例如， 生态景观和生物改造），旨在管理/收集雨水和城市径流的方式 减少城市有毒污染物的数量和暴露。

Core Summary/Abstract The Community Engagement Core (CEC) facilitates bi-directional knowledge exchange between our Superfund Research Center (SRC) and local communities to reduce cumulative impacts, improve nutrition and lower health disparities in disadvantaged neighborhoods of San Diego County, Imperial County and the U.S.-Mexico border region including rural and tribal lands. By empowering youth, conducting workshops, collaborating with communities to develop further research and interventions, developing culturally responsive multimedia science communication tools, and modeling innovative best practices in community engagement, the CEC extends the reach and impact of the science and technological innovations emanating from our SRC. The CEC builds the capacity of vulnerable communities in U.S. EPAs Region 9 and part of Mexico to identify, prioritize and resolve environmental and public health issues related to environmental exposures and Superfund toxicants. The overarching goal is to help prevent toxicant exposure, narrow health disparities, reduce NAFLD and TASH susceptibility, reverse the escalating increase in NAFLD and minimize the risk of TASH, especially in communities that are predominantly Hispanic and Native American. Utilizing an integrative, Sustainability Science, place-based approach with a strong commitment to civic engagement, the CEC will build on our existing community-university partnerships. We will work at sites where, for the past five years, we have been directing best practices in community engagement for exposure prevention and intervention. We are co-designing these interventions through bidirectional interaction with our community partners facilitated through our main community partner the Global Action Research Center in San Diego. The CEC will share SRC science and technology through participatory neighborhood-based educational workshops, trainings, citizen science, youth leadership development, and cumulative impact risk communication. Our approach is rooted in sustainable urban agricultural practices (community gardens and food forests) and the installation of green infrastructure (e.g., ecological landscape and biotic modifications) designed to manage/harvest stormwater and urban runoff in ways that reduce the amount of, and exposure to, urban toxicant contaminants.