Community-engaged environmental monitoring for biowaste treatment transitions

社区参与生物废物处理过渡的环境监测

• 批准号: 10795523
• 负责人: Seung-Hyun Cho
• 金额: $ 41.79万
• 依托单位: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-19 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10795523
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Agriculture; Air; Animal Feed; Animals; Assessment tool; Biological; Black, Indigenous, People of Color; Characteristics; Chemicals; Collaborations; Communities; Community Actions; Community Health; County; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Data Set; Development; Disparity population; Ecological momentary assessment; Environment; Environment and Public Health; Environmental Health; Environmental Impact; Environmental Monitoring; Event; Family suidae; Farm; Federally Qualified Health Center; Follow-Up Studies; Future; Gases; Goals; Government; Health; Health Benefit; Health Diary; Health Status; Industrialization; Industry; Knowledge; Low income; Measurement; Methods; Minority Groups; Monitor; North Carolina; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Phase; Policy Maker; Politics; Privatization; Process; Production; Public Health; Quality of life; Records; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resolution; Resources; Sampling; Surveys; Symptoms; Time; Trainers Training; Trust; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; Water; agricultural community; built environment; community based participatory research; community involvement; community partnership; cost; data sharing; data tools; design; drinking water; empowerment; fine particles; health assessment; health record; improved; member; operation; programs; public health priorities; renewable energy; sensor; tool; wasting; water quality; water testing; well water

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The communities in Sampson and Duplin Counties, in North Carolina, who are largely Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), have had their environmental quality disproportionately affected by long-existing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). A new initiative of large-scale pork industry to produce renewable energy from animal waste at CAFOs has been well-supported by North Carolina government and is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. Although the affected communities are concerned about the additional adverse impact of new swine waste-to-energy (SWE) operations, little data exist to provide any knowledge on the environmental health impact of SWE operations. The Sampson and Duplin communities have identified a time-sensitive need to systematically assess their current environment and public health status before the AlignRNG SWE project becomes fully operational. Our study goal is to address the communities’ needs for baseline data with an assessment of the environmental and public health landscape of the Sampson and Duplin Counties communities prior to widespread SWE transitions. We will conduct a comprehensive longitudinal environmental health monitoring (i.e., air, water, and health) with a community participatory research approach, leveraging existing resources, and through a partnership with a trusted community action group from other RTI-leading/collaborating studies in the same community. We will refine and improve technical approaches that previous studies, including ours, have developed and apply to this unique environmental challenge for understudied, disadvantaged population. Those approaches include co-production of study with active involvement from community members to identify and develop processes that meet their needs, low-cost sensor network to collect high-resolution longitudinal air quality data, longitudinal data of private well water quality and health and quality of life, and low-burden ecological momentary assessment tool. This study will provide all stakeholders (i.e., the study community, agriculture industry, researchers, state officials, and policy makers) a comprehensive baseline analysis of exposure and health status in this under-assessed community facing SWE transition. The study community and RTI researchers will co-produce data collection and summary methods that will also be used in future assessment phases to understand the SWE transition affects. The study findings, data, and processes from this study will be shared with other community groups that have similar needs but few resources for assessments and guidance to address their environmental health challenges and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ NC Environmental Public Health Tracking Program for broader dissemination.

项目摘要/摘要 桑普森和杜普林县的北卡罗来纳州的社区，主要是黑人的 土著和有色人种（BIPOC）的环境质量受到了不成比例的影响 通过长期存在的浓缩动物喂养操作（CAFO）。大规模色情的新计划 北方的行业以Cafos的动物废物产生可再生能源 卡罗来纳州政府预计将在未来几年中显着增长。虽然受影响 社区担心新的猪废物到能量的额外不利影响（SWE） 操作，几乎没有数据来提供有关SWE操作的环境健康影响的任何知识。 Sampson和Duplin社区已经确定了系统敏感的需求，以系统地评估他们的 在Alignrng SWE项目之前，当前的环境和公共卫生状况已完全运行。 我们的学习目标是通过评估社区对基线数据的需求 在 宽度SWE过渡。我们将进行全面的纵向环境健康监测 （即空气，水和健康）采用社区参与研究方法，利用现有资源， 通过与其他RTI领导/协作的值得信赖的社区行动小组的合作 在同一社区的研究。我们将完善并改善以前研究的技术方法， 包括我们的包括我们的发展并适用于这种独特的环境挑战，以理解， 不利的人口。这些方法包括与研究的共同生产，并从中积极参与 社区成员识别和开发满足其需求的流程，低成本传感器网络 收集高分辨率的纵向空气质量数据，私人井水质和健康的纵向数据 和生活质量以及低负担的生态瞬时评估工具。这项研究将提供所有 利益相关者（即研究社区，农业行业，研究人员，州官员和政策制定者） 在这个面临不足的社区中，对暴露和健康状况的全面基准分析 SWE过渡。研究社区和RTI研究人员将共同生产数据收集和摘要 也将在将来的评估阶段使用的方法来了解SWE过渡的影响。 这项研究的研究结果，数据和过程将与其他具有的社区群体共享 类似的需求，但很少有评估和指导的资源来解决其环境健康 挑战和北卡罗来纳州卫生与公共服务部的NC环境公共卫生 跟踪计划，以进行更广泛的传播。