Government and community partnership in reducing air pollution exposure

当少数群体或弱势群体遭受不成比例的空气污染时，城市空气质量引发了环境正义问题。该倡议将建立校园与社区的伙伴关系，以促进相关的公共政策。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项目发展的合作伙伴；2)通过超越社区，与规划者、决策者和各级政府选区办事处的代表建立多方利益相关者伙伴关系。这项拟议的研究涉及巴瑟斯特码头社区协会（BQNA），多伦多市，以及多伦多大学和南安大略大气气溶胶研究中心（SOCAAR）的一个多元化的研究团队。SOCAAR团队在发起和研究空气污染方面的社区伙伴关系方面处于有利地位，因为各种团队成员都与社区、非营利部门和地方政府有过接触。空气质量方面的研究伙伴关系在开发测量、表征和模拟空气质量的独特和新颖方法方面取得了巨大进展。为了在地方和国家层面上加快这些政策评估新方法的实施，有政府参与的校园-社区伙伴关系是关键。在加拿大一级，这种伙伴关系将比传统的“从研究到政策模式的知识传播”更快地改变政策实践。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采用新型空气质量分析的速度就会加快。

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.