Government and community partnership in reducing air pollution exposure

当少数族裔或脆弱社区遭受不成比例的暴露时，城市空气质量会引发环境正义问题。拟议的倡议将发展校园-社区伙伴关系，以促进相关公共政策。这需要1)建设社区能力，使社区能够成为创新空气质量研究计划发展的合作伙伴；2)通过接触社区以外的规划者、政策制定者和各级政府选区办公室的代表，发展多方利益相关者伙伴关系。 这项拟议的研究涉及多伦多巴瑟斯特码头社区协会(BQNA)、多伦多港口和多伦多大学和南安大略省大气气溶胶研究中心(SOCAAR)的一个不同的研究团队。SOCAAR小组处于有利地位，可以发起和研究空气污染方面的社区伙伴关系，这是因为有各种小组成员与社区、非营利部门和地方政府接触的记录。 空气质量方面的研究伙伴关系在开发独特和新颖的空气质量测量、表征和建模方法方面取得了长足的进步。为了在地方和国家一级加速实施这些新的政策评估方法，在政府参与下的校园-社区伙伴关系是关键。在加拿大，这种伙伴关系将比传统的“从研究到政策模式的知识传播”更快地改变政策做法。当政策制定者真正有机会参与空气质量研究及其在当地的实施时，在加拿大一级的政策评估中加速采用新的空气质量分析。

Urban air quality raises environmental justice issues when minority or vulnerable communities suffer disproportionate exposures. The proposed initiative will develop a campus-community partnership to promote relevant public policy. This entails 1) building community capacity so that the community can become a partner in the development of an innovative air quality research program and 2) developing multi-stakeholder partnerships by reaching beyond the community, to planners, policy-makers, and representatives from the constituency offices of all levels of government. The proposed study engages the Bathurst Quay Neighborhood Association (BQNA), the City of Toronto, PortsToronto, and a diverse team of researchers at the University of Toronto and the Southern Ontario Center for Atmospheric Aerosol Research (SOCAAR). The SOCAAR team is well positioned to initiate and study community partnerships in air pollution, owing to a track record of various team members who have engaged with communities, the non-profit sector, and local governments. Research partnerships in air quality have made great strides in terms of the development of unique and novel methods for measuring, characterizing, and modelling air quality. In order to accelerate the implementation of these novel approaches in policy appraisal, at the local and national level, campus-community partnerships with government participation are key. At the level of Canada, such partnerships will change policy practices much faster than the traditional "knowledge dissemination from research to policy model". When policy-makers actually have the opportunity to participate in the air quality research and its implementation in a local context, the uptake of novel air quality analysis in policy appraisal at the Canadian level is accelerated.